SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer Online Cookie used to love reading the newspaper. It set my world straight for the day. When we moved from the Eastern Seaboard to the Midwest, it was a bit of a jolt. Alas, The Cleveland Plain Dealer which used to be a very fine paper is now no longer just that. Instead of yesterday's news, the next morning, now the news that they claim is content can be from two days ago to two months ago. The breaking content is minimal. This probably is from their TV listing feed - something they don't have anything to do with. In the publishing world, when I used to write romance novels in the early 80s, we used to refer to a certain type of padding as "Fuckie Fudging". Lots of ooooooh's and ahhhhh's to up the word count on seducing (not sex, seduction) scenes. Well, isn't this an example of a type of Fuckie Fudging?
New this week at the Grumblat, Ohio, post office are these spiffy stamps, celebrating the winners of the 1951 Miss Postal Workers Contest. We have (Clockwise) Miss First Class Delivery, Miss C.O.D., Miss Book Rate, Miss Postage Due, Miss Delivered in a Brown Wrapper, Miss Registered Mail, Miss Certified Mail, Miss Rural Free Delivery and in the center, Miss Special Delivery. Be sure to get yours today, and remember, collecting stamps is FUN for the entire family!