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While I have 'miles to go before I rest' in regards to all the stuff in this house, I did make some progress, enough to decide I'd earned a break.

I found old history and science papers and info, humor pieces, newspaper clippings, a scroll assignment from when Harold von Auerbach was Tyger Clerk of the Signet, various wedding, birth, and holiday cards, old letters, etc. Some I've kept, some are being recycled. A few things I'll post here, on their way to the recycling bin.

Here's a couple now:

(1)
From Reader's Digest, sometime between 1989 to 1993:

White Elephant Sale. New York City's Mayor David N. Dinkins, when urged by Manhattan officials to buy some property thought to be an "extraordinary opportunity for the city," said: "If they're selling elephants two for a quarter, that's a great bargain. But only if you have a quarter -- and only if you need elephants."
-- Leonard Buder in New York Times

(2)
From the Ansax-L mailing list, 1995, written by David Ganz, I believe.

A poem inspired by someone looking for info on Aethelweard's Chronicle, when one of the respondents to the query mistyped and left the "d" of of A's name.

Aethelwear

Anglo-Saxonists can bear
Everything, in Aethelwear.
Is it Frantzen whom you fear?
You'll be safe in Aethelwear.
When your Dean, or DukeFish jeer
Raise your hood of Aethelwear.
Hats in search of hinds revere
Clinging, moulding Aethelwear.
Gnomic verses start to clear
Yea, e'en these, in Aethelwear.
Powdermilk is far too dear,
Wear Guy's Shoes, and Aethelwear.

Jacques Enterprises Inc.
Melancholy Baby Division

(3)
And then of couurse, there is the tale of Beocat....

Grendel's Dog, from Beocat, by the Old English epic's Unknown Author's Cat (Modern English verse translation by the Editor's Cat). Hey,