Turkeys Try to Catch Train Out of N.J. RAMSEY, N.J. — Some wild turkeys, it appears, were trying to get out of New Jersey before Thanksgiving Day. A spokesman for the NJ Transit said train officials reported a dozen or so wild turkeys waiting on a station platform in Ramsey, about 20 miles northwest of […]

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1) colonoscopy 2) sure, we can make that viral… 3) episiotomy 4) lateral promotion (as in yours, not mine… ha ha) 5) laser vaginal rejuvenation 6) you know he’s dead, right? 7) indeed, Tool (Rush, Jethro Tull, Coheed & Cambria, [insert prog rock band here]) are a great band… 8) colonic irrigation 9) granny dumping

1) perpetuate 2) mediate 3) squirmy 4) opsimath 5) schadenfreude (in reference to people I don’t know, of course) 6) apeirophobia 7) zaftig 8) compadre 9) hypermnesia (as in my own, wishfully) 10) nugatory 11) hoi polloi 12) schicki-micki

Lilly Del Pinto thought the book looked charming when her 5-year-old daughter brought it home in September. Del Pinto said she was halfway through reading it to her daughter “when the zookeeper said the two penguins must be in love. That’s when I ended the story.” Del Pinto is speaking of the picture book “And […]