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Anyone with subscriber access (or the book it's collected in): James Thurber had the answer (which as usual for him just let to more confusing questions): http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1932/10/15/the-civil-war-phone-number-association PS: Dennis I think your wife is watching too much Seinfeld (pillow scene with George). On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Dennis Brasky via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Not to discourage mental exercise, but I've known quite a few people who > were intellectually active and still succumbed to Alzheimer's. The research > tends to offer a bit more hope through regular physical exercise, but even > that just seems to be a guess. > > I instructed my wife that if I am one day stricken with this condition, > she should not wait until the disease is full-blown - she is to put a > pillow over my head. That night while in bed watching the evening news, she > put a pillow over my head! When I wrestled free and asked what she was > doing, she answered, "practicing." > > We now sleep in separate bedrooms! > > > > > > > > Like most people my age, my memory ain't as sharp as it used to be but > > I'll be damned if I'd spend money on "memory games". Instead I develop my > > own exercises--who knows if they work--but they are free and relatively > > painless. What I do is pick a category like jazz musicians or baseball, > > something I am familiar with, and go through the alphabet naming people, > > the quota based on the difficulty of the category. > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
