Huh? What's Up With That?

still more oddities, observations, & ?'s...                                                                    I easily passed Mrs. Bryant's English test on pronouns in eighth grade at Eastwood Junior High (now Eastwood Middle) in Indianapolis, Indiana.  English was my deal.    As for Mrs. Bryant , she was outspoken and often shared with her charges her thoughts about cultural events and the state of the world in general.     She didn't tolerate laziness, a negative attitude, or failure to do homework.  Those choices were not on the table and were never an option in her class.  Not one of us wanted to incur her dressing down by not turning in required work.     The word was out in seventh grade, Don't get Mrs. Bryant for English next year .     When it came to...

 don't worry, be happy ...#1                         b.mcferrin, 1988                       Alfred E Neuman was  the  fictitious mascot  and cover boy of the American humor magazine, Mad .  His motto was the incurious, What, me worry? (The motto was changed for one issue only to Yes, me worry  after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 ).   I was a huge fan of the magazine in my adolescent and early teen years.  Some issues from that time period are worth hundreds, and, in a few cases, thousands of dollars.  However, if one failed to retain any issue, their current value falls under the category of,    HUH ?   What's up with that ?  ?   According to Dictionary.com , the definition of worry is:  to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts;  fret .   The same sourc...