Three years from now will be an even more precise Pi day (3/14/16 as in 3.1416) the rounded approximation I grew up using in mathematics.

Remember when First Ladies were, well, ladies first?

Paul D: Google image search kind of ruins this game, doesn't it?

I guess those who suffer from "tuba lips" simply need a new mouthpiece. Brass instrument mouthpieces are plated in silver or gold to prevent irritation of the lips, and isn't an issue unless the plating has worn exposing the brass base metal.

It's the millstone I have had hanging around my neck ever since I got married!

I'm Giving Her All She's Got t-shirt, XL

Doesn't this kind of defeat the purpose of listening to vinyl records? The 3D printing technology is digital in nature, and the attraction to listening to recordings on vinyl is that the analog sound is warmer and closer to sounding like the original audio.

Geez, I must have missed this. Fox 23 is my local Fox affiliate! LOL

My dad used to brew his own beer. He first started out using a 10-gallon porcelain crock. He used water, sugar, yeast and canned malt extract. (I have long since forgotten the exact recipe.) The crock was covered with a lid that just sat on top of the crock (not airtight) and was kept in the basement where it was cool (about 60 degrees). He would check the brew every day, and just when it would stop making bubbles, which took about ten days, he would bottle it, adding a bit of sugar to the bottom of the bottle to give the yeast enough to generate more CO2 to give the brew a nice head when it was opened and poured out to drink. I tried brewing my own using this same recipe once about 25 years ago, and it worked well, except when our air conditioner went out several days after bottling and the house got up to 90-plus degrees and several bottles exploded in the pantry! After that my wife made me promise to not brew my own again!

Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County are my two favorite comic strips of all time.

Too bad the most lasting image of Calvin is the ubiquitous image of him urinating on a Chevy logo or whatever other object of derision someone chooses to use.

I grew up in Herrin, Illinois, within 10 minutes drive of TWO drive-in theaters: the Riviera Drive-in in Herrin, and the Egyptian Drive-in in Energy, just a couple of miles from Herrin. The Egyptian was just closed 10 years ago. There are entries for both theaters on cinematreasures.org.

Really? No one knew the Pilsbury Doughboy was called Poppin' Fresh? I guess I am getting old if I remember something like this that others consider lost to contemporary pop culture.

I got 100%!! I loved the series "WKRP In Cincinnati". I worked for Maytag for years and Gordon Jump was Ol' Lonely the Maytag Repairman, and I got to meet him on two occasions. People were constantly asking him to repeat his famous quote from that episode.

Seems to me he is very rich in spirit. God bless him.

My seventh grade English teacher, Mr. Scherer, was a firm believer in rote memorization. We memorized lists of different examples of different parts of the Language: active verbs, linking verbs, etc. She was most famous for her list of sixty-six prepositions which we were required to memorize and recite on command. We even had competitions to see who could recite the list the fastest! That was over thirty years ago, and I can STILL recite the entire list.

Three years later when several friends of mine were studying for Biology class attempting to learn the hierarchy of taxonomy, we remembered how Mrs. Scherer drilled things into our head. Using her methods, we chanted the seven levels of taxonomic structure: Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. I can recite the order even today.

There is something to be said for rote memorization.