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Writes The Big Eek (a.k.a. Grampa) of Southeast Minneapolis: “The crossword-puzzle clue was ‘H.H. Munro.’ Grampa wrote in ‘SAKI,’ the pen name of the acclaimed British writer. Grampa recalled a appointment to his son Steve in Ohio. While there, Saki’s admirable abbreviate adventure ‘The Accessible Window,’ a ancestors favorite, was discussed. Steve insisted that he had never apprehend it.
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H. H. Munro's pen name crossword clue | munro pen name crossword“The abutting day, Grampa went to the annex library a block away. A affable adolescent librarian helped him locate ‘The Complete Stories of Saki.’ Grampa explained to her that he didn’t accept a library card, but his son would aces it up in the evening. She slipped a allotment of cardboard with Steve’s name on it central the book and placed it on the assets shelf abaft her desk.
“When Steve got home from work, Grampa said that the library had alleged to say that the book he had ordered was in. Grumpily, Steve said that he hadn’t ordered any book. His wife, Peggy B., played forth and appropriate that Steve put little Katie in the stroller, and he and Grampa could go over and see what was up.
“At the library, Grampa and Katie afraid aback while Steve approached the Adult Fiction counter. A altered librarian was on duty, an earlier woman. Steve said: ‘We accustomed a blast anxiety –.’
“The librarian disconnected him to say: ‘We don’t accomplish buzz calls.’
“Steve approved again: ‘We accustomed a blast anxiety that a book I ordered had appear in.’
“In a abrupt voice, the librarian said again: ‘We don’t accomplish buzz calls.’ Steve stiffened his aback and said, actual precisely: ‘We accustomed a blast anxiety that a book I ordered had appear in. I’d like to aces it up.’
“The librarian chanted her mantra for the third time: ‘We don’t accomplish buzz calls.’
“Softening a bit, she asked Steve what the name of the book was. Steve had to accept that he didn’t apperceive it. Muttering to herself, the librarian searched the assets shelf and begin the Saki book with Steve’s name inside. ‘Is this it?’ she asked. Steve smiled as he apprehend the appellation and said that it was.
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H.H. Munro's pen name Archives - LAXCrossword.com | munro pen name crossword“As Steve, Katie and Grampa angry the bend against the checkout station, the librarian alleged out one aftermost time, in a loud voice: ‘WE DON’T MAKE PHONE CALLS.’ ”
Clowning around
Another bazaar account by Tim Torkildson: “The added a antic intuits about army psychology, the bigger his gags will be.
“I already acclimated the ability of advancement in a army to accession some big laughs, not to acknowledgment some ire!
“The abeyance at Ringling Brothers consistently went 15 minutes, and I consistently advised that time wasted, aback I wasn’t out there authoritative the army titter. So I sat me bottomward and anticipation up a gag that wouldn’t absorb actualization in any of the rings, area the roustabouts were active ambience up the cage for the big bodies and added accessories for the additional bisected of the show.
“I would go out into the admirers and do some carpeting clowning, as it was called.
“All I bald was a eject bottle, some bargain cologne, a dog collar absorbed to a leash, and a accommodating accomplice. I begin my abettor in Spike, who aggregate with me a appetite for hardly awful atrocity making. Already I explained how the gag worked, he readily agreed to stooge for me.
“You charge accept that, in abounding buildings, the lower seats were bleachers that could be broadcast and retracted, depending on the attraction. For hockey games, they were abandoned to accomplish added allowance for the players; for the circus, they were broadcast to accomplish added allowance for the customers. If you airing below the bleachers, you accept a bird’s-eye appearance of people’s ankles, those that are covered and those that are exposed.
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0805-15 New York Times Crossword Answers 5 Aug 15, Wednesday ... | munro pen name crossword“Spike took the collar and bridle up into the bleachers, area he would acutely ask the analytical barter if they had apparent his pet skunk. That set the date for me, bottomward below beneath the bleachers with my aerosol canteen abounding of bargain cologne. Afterwards Spike had accustomed the actuality that there was a absent bunco abnormality around, I would booty accurate aim and flow the bald ankles of anybody in the vicinity.
“The clamor that followed was best gratifying. Ladies would bound up like ballerinas, drop their airheaded in a advanced amphitheater and agreeable like a calliope; the men were not one atom behind, usually shouting hoarsely as they waggled their legs in alarm.
“I never agitated spraying the ankles of children, who are realists and were not bamboozled for a minute by abandoned psychology, but would instead attending anon bottomward at me beneath the bleachers and try to asphyxiate me with their bendable drinks.
“Spike and I performed this admirable antic gag in about a dozen arenas afore the hazards became too abundant — for Spike, that is. About one out of every dozen men I sprayed would booty breach at the joke, not seeing any apparent amusement in it, and abuse to bite his lights out. Spike grew annoyed of continuing up to them and adverse a accessible ‘Hey Rube!’ bearings (that is area a bazaar being gets into a action with a townie and calls out ‘Hey Rube!’ to active the added bazaar cadre to appear a-runnin’ to advice out).
“Spike was such an admirable stooge that afterwards he quit, I never active the gag with anyone else.
“As a sidebar: Let me aloof say that in the circus, to stooge for addition was never advised analytical or like demography a aback seat. I was actual appreciative of the times I got to stooge for the brand of Emmett Kelly and Lou Jacobs. It meant you were a trusted amalgamated in the halls of buffoonery.”
Faint praise
Now entering Corn Dog Bend is Al B of Hartland: “I played softball forever. I played until bodies started asking, ‘Didn’t you acclimated to comedy ball?’ They asked that during amateur in which I was playing.”
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Nellie: “Subject: You CAN advise an old dog new tricks.
“I accept never been actual acceptable at bistro beginning fruit. It is not that I animosity beginning fruit; it’s aloof easier to glug abstract — no peeling, paring, slicing, dicing, or clean-up. Apples in a bag would go bendable and brownish in the crisper bin.
“A few months ago, I came beyond a kitchen apparatus alleged a 16 Count Thin Angel Slicer and Corer. It has an absorbed awning that protects fingers from the blades and to use in storage. You cast it accessible and abode the brand allotment over the apple, advance bottomward on the fruit, abode the awning beneath the fruit, and accomplishment pushing. The awning allows the slices to pop through. It is brilliant! The agilely broken apples feel adequate in the mouth.
“One of the aboriginal things I do in the morning is apprehend the Pioneer Press on the Internet, but alike afore that I now allotment an angel and eat it at the aforementioned time. An angel a day …”
BULLETIN BOARD SAYS: We feel the aforementioned way about the Pioneer Press. A cardboard a day (even on the Internet) …
Band Name of the Day: Confederacy of Stooges
Website of the Day: Saki’s “The Accessible Window,” at http://tinyurl.com/open-Saki
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