This is damn interesting.

Headphones recommend it.

I'm sure you'll find this a most fascinating dungeon.

That lovely rumbling sound you hear as one of my favorite prisoners.

He was a bass drummer in an orchestra I once conducted,

had a very bad habit.

You know that part in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony,

where the drummer is supposed to go,

a boom, boom, boom, boom.

Well, this stupid loud always went.

A boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, you know.

He'll be here forever.

A deboculus fiasco by Jennifer Noonan.

With graduation less than a week away, the President Emeritus of Lake Forest College was

trying not to panic. He'd had an especially difficult time organizing the ceremony that year,

and he'd just received word that the scheduled commencement speaker

for the class of 1977 was refusing to give a speech.

I talk with people, not two people, insisted Theodore Geisel, better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss.

The renowned author and illustrator had misunderstood Lake Forest's invitation, believing the

college intended to award him an honorary doctorate, which it did, but with the polite

understanding that honorary degrees are the usual currency for

graduation speeches. Seuss told President Hotchkiss that he was completely unwilling to address

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