Should shoes stay on or off at home
Dear Annie notes mixed customs on removing shoes at home. Readers from Canada Alaska and northern U S share expectations while others resist. A few offer slippers and polite boundary setting to avoid dirt and discomfort.
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Be careful with phone messages and wrong numbers
Readers share cautionary notes about leaving details on voicemail. A caller left info for Mrs X with Baton Rouge and learned Ken L from Birmingham relayed the message. A coach also left a number, prompting a call to correct the error. Heloise urges care to prevent messages from reaching the wrong hands.
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Baton Rouge
Ken L
Birmingham
Ala
Ken
Heloise
Daily Show skewers party lines while Knievel rock opera plans rise
Jon Stewart says The Daily Show ignores party labels and mocks liberals and conservatives as two gangs. Evel Knievel signs over exclusive rights to a projected rock opera, with Jef Bek of Zoo District guiding the project after earning Knievel’s blessing in Clearwater, Florida.
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Daily Show
Jon Stewart
Stewart
Comedy Central
Rock ON Los Angeles
Evel Knievel
Jef Bek
Los Angeles
Zoo District
Clearwater, Fla
Knievel
Bek
Des Plaines, Ill
Akurap
CROSSWORD By Eugene Sheffer ACROSS 1 Money place 5 Succor 8 Cut into boards 12 Atmos phere 14 Shrek, to one 15 Greek philoso pher 16Frompts 17 Away from NNW 18 Souvenir 20Pert 23Use a squeeze. 24"Keep it down' 25 Ol' Blue Eyes: 28 Prior to 29 Refresh ingly new 90 Internet address 32 Taken for granted 34 Merriment 35 Pindaric places 36 Floor board noise 37 Keyboar bar 40 Motorists fra, a 41 Post-bar applica tion 42 High school dances 47 Desire 48 Try 49 Cherishet 50 Gumshoe 51 i or Senegal "Tenet 2 Latin "I love" 3 Brokaw's network 4 Cherry brandy 5 Initial slake Water cooler? 7 In the cards 8 Hollow holder 9 Malarial symptom 10 Small songbird 11 Capone foe 13 Relaxed 19 October stone 20The girl 21 Emana 22 Pals to work 23 Spouses 25 Pennsyl vania county 26 Hold the scepter 27 Surround ings 29 Undraped 31 Albanian money 33 Pele's game 34 Noted evangelist 36 Birthday party must 37 Collar fastener 38 Shave 39 Seaweed 40 "Back in Black" rock band 43"A Chorus Line" song 44 Eggs 45 Ward healer, eg. 46- Lanka
A compact puzzle card style item listing clues and entries for a Eugene Sheffer crossword with across and down prompts, varieties of standard crossword answers, and common proper nouns.
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Capone
Stone
Pennsylvania County
Pele
Lanka
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