Inaccessible Island Rail: A million ducks and a twelve-inch pianist

Monday, May 7, 2007

A million ducks and a twelve-inch pianist

Why are they called "shaggy dog stories"?

Today's earrings: elephants, ebony teardrops

Bedtime reading: King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard

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