a cute/funny story to liven up your wednesday

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A lot of the agents at work send out newsletters to the people they've sold houses to, and word's gotten around that there's a friendly switchboard operator at the front desk who would be perfectly willing to proof them (and they pretty nearly always need proofing, believe me).  Well, one of them came up to me yesterday, a real sweet lady, and we were chatting and she said, well, I don't know if you can help me anymore, aren't you going to cooking school?, to which I replied, well, I may be a Facetious Ex-English Major but I can still spot a comma splice from a hundred yards off.  Everyone thought that was funny.  Especially after I told them what facetious meant.  (Ahem, from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, fa*ce"tious: 1) given to wit or good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion; 2) characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply--just you know, in case.)

Oh, and I will have you know Shannon, that that movie-tie in I bought of the Narnia series?  It hasn't been Americanized.  I got to page nine I think, and noticed the word "colour".  Huh, what do you make of that?  Go HarperCollins.

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