Local NewsMarch 12, 2013

Today is Tuesday, the 71st day of 2013, with 294 days left in the year.

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Organize Your Home Office Day. While you're at it, the bedroom closet could probably use some organizing, as could the bathroom medicine cabinet.

Middle names

Sammy Ryan's middle name is Arnelia; she is of Lewiston.

Ellen Rowden's middle name is Gleeves; she is of Kendrick. Her middle name was submitted by her niece, Sammy Ryan.

The late Oldrich Brozek's middle name was Blahaboy. His middle name was submitted by his daughter, Myrna Thatcher of Cottonwood.

John Anderson's middle name is Ryan. He is of Pullman.

Dave and Rene Shirley of Clarkston gave their two daughters the middle names Danielle and Eileen.

Mel Oglesby's middle name is William. He is of Clarkston.

Deep thoughts

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

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If you're a young mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.

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Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant and she fell on me? Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.

Define this

Umber

Definition No. 1 - An expression of exaggeration.

Definition No. 2 - An earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment.

Sentence scrambler

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Answers

Mondegreen - A word or phrase resulting from mishearing a word or phrase, especially in song lyrics.

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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way, things I had no words for." - Georgia O'Keeffe

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