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   Decades ago, while playing a family game of “Geography” on a long car trip, we all agreed that using the last letter to begin the next word kept producing the same sequence of names, so we changed the rules, and used the third letter instead. At some point I realized that getting an “M” would permit me to play “Mexico”. I had to wait a while until it happened, and that was the end of that temporary rule.

   P.S. Anderson could have given the diner a miniature rod & reel: “I hate fishin’ cuisine!”

   P.P.S. I’m perfectly willing to suspend my orthographic disbelief for the sake of a pun, but meteorology is another matter: no cirrus cloud has ever rained on anything.

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   There is a scary etymology for the name Amazon, when referring to the warrior women. It could relate to the bodily mutilation they were said to undergo to improve their archery skills.

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   Kilby: … which is why it’s an offense, yes?

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   @ Dana – I knew about the alleged bodily modification, but not about the subsequent folk etymology attached to the name “Amazons“.

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   Naming stadia for corporations is more common now, but hardly new. In Chicago, Wrigley Field relates both to the owner (Phil Wrigley) and the gum company. In St. Louis, there have been a group of successive Busch stadia, with August A. Busch and family as team owner, and Busch beer being one of the flagships of the Anheuser-Busch brewing empire (now ABI).

   On a side note, with the current boycotting of Bud Light, I noticed when I toured Wisconsin that there’s now a huge marketing push at the sporting events I attended and the bars I ate at for Busch Light. Same company, if possible even a lower quality beer (your taste may vary). Lots more Busch Light being sold at the sporting events I attended than Bud Light.

   Nationally, a beer that seems to be benefitting from the boycott is Modelo, which is ALSO owned by ABI (although marketed in the US by Constellation), and which is brewed using foreign labor (in Mexico).

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   And here in Boston we have the home of the Red Sox, Fenway Park, named because it is close to the Fenway, which is a road that goes around the Back Bay Fens, which themselves are (itself is?) a park. It may be the only so-named Fenway anywhere.

   There is absolutely no chance that the park will ever be named in honor of Tom Yawkey, who owned the Red Sox from 1933 until 1976. In fact, Yawkey Way has been renamed Jersey Street. The Yawkey story is a cautionary tale, and it is not likely the park will be renamed after anyone.

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   I will point out that the original request was for Budweiser stadium, which the league denied. Busch being the name of the owner as well was allowed. And of course, it’s not a case of taking cash for naming rights.

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   for the Last comic, they should lend the money because …
   Nothing sucks seeds like birds without teeth

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   Well somebody has to do it.

   You don’t get rain from cirrus clouds.

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    And as I scrolled back up I wondered how I missed Kilby’s P.P.S.

    Oh dear.

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    I have to ask (it is late and I don’t feel like looking it up) – Is fission cuisine a real thing?

    My personal food tests being child-like (peanut butter sandwich – NO JELLY or anything else added but peanut butter and white bread is still my favorite food, though now I eat a full sandwich – for the 8 years I ate it every day while in school (and weekends at home) I only ate a half a sandwich)

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    @ Meryl (11) – Fission cuisine is just a joke that plays on all the multifarious fads of different fusion cuisines.

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    Thank you Kilby.

    We are generally so far “out” of things these days that I was not sure.

    (My main diet since start of Covid has been peanut sandwiches for lunch – a return to elementary school lunches for me as I had same almost daily – but if mom gave me a whole sandwich she got half of it back – and chicken patties for dinner as easy to cook and clean up from after cooking whatever Robert wants for dinner for him.)