Hog Mild

*** Rejected opening sentence of story: "In the long run, he realized he wasn't gonna win the Boston Marathon."

*** As to my neighbors---I'm a little bit country, they're a whole lotta lock 'n load.

*** Would you call two pirates having a disagreement an Aargh-ument?

*** Was it Edgar Guest who wrote, "It takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a heap" .

*** I guess for Jean-Paul Marat and his relationship with Charlotte Corday it was strictly bed, bath and beyond.

*** I wonder if air guitarists use chordless phones?

*** Tuesday March the second---that woulda been Tuesday Weld' name if she had married Frederick March Jr.