




Today’s trivia question: what U.S. vice-president had a Billboard #1 hit?





Today’s trivia question: what U.S. vice-president had a Billboard #1 hit?

Hit me again, dealer!



Oy-Ewww



Just in case anyone here had some doubt, “Himalayan” is indeed a recognized breed of cat. My mother had a cat named Hillary, and some people thought that name was in honor of a prominent American politician; but in fact he was a Himalayan cat, and named for Sir Edmund Hillary. Here is a picture of the breed:



Not really an OY, but then tax filings aren’t due until Tuesday, April 18.


In Chicago we have not exactly Ballet Parking but rather Poetry Parking, close to the Opera House, and with special packages for Opera parking and for Joffrey Ballet. And “ironically” (as the kids like to say) it is very much not valet parking — it is self-parking and their web site brags of “full automation”. As this signage illustrates, you will be aided in remembering what level you parked on by color-coding and iconography of different poets and poems.





Andréa sends these in. Is there an accent where “Potter” sounds like more like “Putter” than it does here in the midwestern U.S.?
This is a bit of deja vu. One of your editors (not saying which one, but their first initial is “z”) accidentally posted these to last week’s OY page, after that page had been published. Proper PUNishment will be forthcoming.



How about some breakfast Grawlix?


A couple OYs from Andréa:


P.S. And then I saw this one on Facebook:


I had to give it a minute to hit.


And in Chicago we call it “wha’s this here sauce?”.




It’s a bit gruesome to contemplate just how her face has been involved in those ship launches!
P.S. Don’t forget the milli-Helen, a unit of facial beauty capable of launching one ship.





OK, let’s hear the pros and cons for whether it’s better with put the garbage out or would be improved with put out the garbage.

A sausage party?


Shared by a CIDU reader:

More of an OY than a LOL perhaps, but who is counting?

Wrong Hands labels this with “redux” so we are not abashed about rerunning it here.
