What is wrong with people?

"From my experience, ma'am, I've discovered that people don't usually forget to do that which they usually do." - Columbo

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz's puzzle was something about tennis, not clever wordplay, so whatever:

Jelly Roll, y'all:
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No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable - and we believe they can do it again. - John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

No, Puzzlemaster Will Shortz did not call me.

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. Then I say "All you boys get out of my yard!"

And thus I must share my McSweeney's list from the crazy year of 2005 (I was a Katrina refugee, albeit in much nicer circumstances that most, when I wrote it):

That guy not knowing "Trevi" irked me. I knew the painting, but could not come up with the artist's name, so did no better than the contestants.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. - Harlan Ellison (b. May 27, 1934)

Puzzlemaster didn't call me. "Camera" and "Capra".

Levon Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012)

Happy Birthday, Bobcat Goldthwait (b. May 26, 1962)

I won the single "Jeopardy!" game that I won with the category "Advertising Icons." It helped that the guys I played against were both younger than I (I was 45 at the time):

I was reading "fancy" differently than you, but yours is more fun.

Thanks, Old Buddy was playing fetch this morning, like he does every morning, and seems all right. Both dogs are going to the vet, the delightfully named Dr. Barca, on Memorial Day, so she can check him out.

Lincoln Barrington "Sugar" Minott (25 May 1956 – 10 July 2010)

One of my son's teenage (half) sisters is dating a trans-man (or boy - like, the kids went to prom) named James, so now I'm thinking of a trans-man Bond. So much head explosions!

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882)

Literally only saw FJ (went to the gym, found out a Pilates class was canceled, was in in my Birkenstocks - Pilates is a barefoot thing - so couldn't do another activity).* I didn't know the FJ, but I've seen the house he died in. Only the outside because fuck that guy: