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The typographical error
Is a slippery thing and sly.
You can hunt it ‘til you are dizzy
But it somehow will get by.
Till the forms are off the presses,
It is strange how still it keeps;
It shrinks down in a corner
And it never stirs or peeps —
The typographical error
Is too small for human eyes,
Till the ink is on the paper . . .
Then it grows to mountain size.
The boss, he stares in horror,
Then grabs his hair and groans,
The copy reader drops his head
Upon his hands and moans.
The remainder of the issue
May be clean as clean can be.
But the typographical error
Is the only thing you see.

Author Unknown

May, 2017, from Dee Abrahamse to the 1961 Chat group:  

Hi, all.  I couldn’t resist sharing my latest shopping adventure with all of you, who might understand it!   Today as I got out summer clothes,  I realized that the khaki crops I put away last year still are missing a button at the waist.  Last year I had a safety pin to keep them together, but that seems to have vanished over the winter, and I was all out of safety pins.  (of course I could go get a button and sew it on, but that sounds like too much work, and the safety pin worked fine last summer).  I added it to my shopping list for Target,  and after I found everything else I needed, looked around and couldn’t find any area that looked as though it might have safety pins -no ‘notions’, like the old supermarkets near me used to have. I asked and they directed me to the home and office aisle, where there were push pins, but no safety pins.  I didn’t even try at the store where I was shopping for food (a Trader Joe’s type store),  but thought the next door Staples might have them.. No, they didn’t carry them, and we had a conversation about craft shops and similar places that might have safety pins.  I tried Rite Aide, where they didn’t seem exactly sure what safety pins are, but the aisle they directed me to certainly didn’t have any. When I came home, I looked for safety pins online at Target, and discovered I could order them delivered to a nearby store – $3.99 for the package, and $5.99 for delivery!  Finally, I called my local Target, and they looked  up in a register and said yes, they do have them – with the vacuum cleaners!  So tomorrow I’ll try again, and hope my pants will stay up long enough to get the pin.  I’m sure if I were in Wolcott, safety pins would be in all the country stores, and probably at Price Chopper near us, but here in California, they seem to be an item of the past.

5/31/16 — Compliments of Judy Kennedy:

HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU’RE OLD, AND DON’T MOVE FAST ANYMORE
George Phillips, an elderly man from Walled Lake, Michigan, was going up
to bed, when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed,
which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back
door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed
stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked “Is someone in your house?” He said
“No,” but some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from
me. Then the police dispatcher said “All patrols are busy, you should lock
your doors and an officer will be along when one is available” George
said, “Okay.” He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he phoned
the police again. “Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there
were people stealing things from my shed. Well, you don’t have to worry
about them now because I just shot and killed them both; the dogs are
eating them right now,” and he hung up.

Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT Team, a Helicopter, two Fire
Trucks, a Paramedic and an Ambulance showed up at the Phillips’
residence, and caught the burglars red-handed. One of the Policemen
said to George”I thought you said that you’d shot them!” George said, “I
thought you said there was nobody available!”

10/21/2016 — LIZ THORNTON WINS THE INAUGURAL AND COVETED “CLASS OF 1961 WEBSITE APPRECIATION AWARD.” HOW DID SHE DO THIS?  LIZ WAS THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF 1961 TO LOOK AT ALL OF THE 55TH REUNION VIDEOS ON THE WEBSITE.  

Your webmistress discovered this amazing feat, but she hopes that how Liz won the award will always remain a mystery.  Well done, Liz!