Poisonville
"I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte..."
[poisonville at verizon dot net]
(Aww, Aaron, I’m not even rooting against the Yankees—Jon Miller and Joe Morgan just mentioned that Yogi Berra was at the game, and I just had to…)
I pray New Yorkers have the courage to make the right choice
1-Ballot Proposal Number One, An Amendment to section 1 of article 14 of the Constitution, in relation to the use of certain forest preserve lands by National Grid to construct a 46 kV power line along State Route 56 in St. Lawrence County.
The proposed amendment would authorize the Legislature to convey up to six acres of forest preserve land along State Route 56 in St. Lawrence County to National Grid for construction of a power line. In exchange, National Grid would convey to the State at least 10 acres of forest land in St. Lawrence County, to be incorporated into the forest preserve. The land to be conveyed by National Grid to the State must be at least equal in value to the land conveyed to National Grid by the State. Shall the proposed amendment be approved?
expert: one with the special skill or knowledge representing mastery of a particular subject
From Harvey Araton’s bizarro “analysis” of fan forgiveness and steroids in the Times.
“Because of their immense egos, Clemens and Bonds couldn’t get down on their knees, do a little mea culpa,” said Charles Yesalis, a professor emeritus of health policy and kinesiology at Penn State University.
Well, you’re the kinsesiologist.
“American people are tremendously forgiving,” Yesalis said. “And they don’t ask too much.”
Unsolved Mysteries
Poisonville: Did you see anyone come into the room the past couple minutes?
Sasha the Cat: Hmm? No, no one.
PV: Because it looks like someone took a big bite out of my roast chicken.
…
PV: And, this is funny, it looks like there’s cat hair in my escarole.
StC: Weird.
PV: Do you know anything about that?
StC: Me? No.
PV: I guess we’ll never know what happened.
StC: Guess not.
PV: Well anyway, do you want a piece of chicken?
StC: No thanks. I just ate.
Joan Benoit Samuelson ran her first marathon in Boston in 1979. A few months shy of graduating from Bowdoin, she finished with a time of 2:35, winning the race—and knocking eight minutes off the previous course record.
A few years later, she broke the world record with a time of 2:22 (which has since been lowered to 2:15 by Paula Radcliffe).
By the way, Joan is wearing a Boston Red Sox cap above. She is a Maine native and lives there today. (photo and details via Bowdoin campus news)
