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[calimac]

1. This is interesting. We have Tolkien's correspondence with Pauline Baynes regarding adding names to the poster-map of Middle-earth she drew in 1970, but I think the actual copy of the book's map she sent him to annotate is new.

2. Let's get this straight. The makers of the vegan substitute for mayonnaise claim that the reason they put a picture of an egg on the label was to show it was made without eggs, and further that they called it "mayo" so as to distinguish it from mayonnaise. They'd better hope the person who questions them on this is Trey Gowdy.

3. Yes.

4. Also (this is a video): Yes, yes, [click on yes button many times] (via Bruce Schneier)

5. Somewhere beyond the grave, Deryck Cooke is smiling.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Yes. Even more irritating is the singular plural when it's clear the card is from the entire family. "Merry Xmas from the Clark's." BLARGH!

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I must admit that I like referring to Leonard & Virginia as the Woolves.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Blogging the plural post. Thanx.

[andrewducker]

The mayo thing also drove me crazy - such transparent lies on their part, and the chutzpah to keep a straight face.