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Wednesday weirdness

June 23, 2021

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Wednesday weirdness

September 16, 2020

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Wednesday weirdness — social distancing edition

April 22, 2020

See also:

How to Pass the Salt While Maintaining Proper Social Distance

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Wednesday weirdness

November 27, 2019

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Caturday funnies

September 7, 2019

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Wednesday weirdness

July 24, 2019

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Wednesday weirdness — National Library Week edition

April 10, 2019

Something no serious reader should be without.

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Two-minute history lesson

April 12, 2017

Students at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology come up with a new way to tell a very old story.

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In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
—Burt Prelutsky
thought for the day

I had a really bad day. First, my ex was run over by a bus. Then I got fired from my job as a bus driver. Bummer.
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