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The WIPEOUT: Wife, 1; Jim, 0

Score win for distaff side, Repartee Match, in which our Man of Words and History Mystery solver receives just desserts: A 1-zilch shellacking in Great Writer's Land of Exile, his Egypt & Elba in the land of the Shawnee - Ohio. -CM

The admission and lament of "Jim"
Late of The Lindsey Wilson, late of the Sacred Triangle

Bro. Ed: I'm pretty sure there's a moral lurking around one of the corners in the sad story below, but, as with the math problem mentioned therein, I'm too dull of wit and weary of years to puzzle it out.

My child bride of lo! these many decades proclaims (quite too often, thank you) that she's been married to me for more years than she's had birthdays. I've tried to do the math on that one but keep falling short of the glory. If you want to take a run at it, by all means, be my guest. I shan't stand in your way.

Anyway, she just won't cut me any slack.

The other day we were talking to some folks we hadn't seen for a while, and I guess one of them noticed my beard has become a whiter shade of grey since last we'd met. Asked he, "So, are you doing much these days?" Before I could mumble an answer, my darling companion piped up with, "Nawww. He's just rusting on his laurels." "Jim"




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