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Fewmets from my pen. With apologies to King Pellinore and the Questing Beast.
Abiotic - mu Abiotic methane and hydrocarbons
Absolutely useless information -pe Absolutely useless information about fat in your diet
Adams - cr Grizzly Adams and his bears
Advertise -ra The 4 "e"s of selling
Advice - cr About pharmaceutical ads in paper
Affordance -ch Don Norman's approach to commercialization
Afterwise -ib Addison's Afterwise
Allegory - ch Al Gore
Alligator -ch William Bartram's Alegators (Alligator)
Alpha male - bb Al Gore
Altzheimers - ch Is it really Alzheimers?
Amino acids -pe Essential amino acids
Amino acid imbal. - os Imbalances and what they are.
Angell - jk Norman Angell's wrong regarding the fruits of war.
Ant Brains -egl Bigger isn't necessarily better
Antimatter - cr The elements of Nu (the new periodic table Nu=0)
Anvil - ja Wesley Watkins: blacksmith - an obit
archy - cr mehitabel's friend story by jsw
archyfable - dv Archy's Homerisque Fable of Lawyer and a Sheep
Arsenic -ch Arsenic and old malice
Art of Selling - hk Selling preys on hope and fear
Art of satire - so The fine honing of a lost art
Ashfall - ra Nebraska's unsung park
Asthma - cr From Dr. Chase's perspective
Audubon -ma Rafinesque, a bat and a violin
Avellaneda -hk Did Cervantes write Avellaneda's second part?
Avicenna - sn Rules of Science
Bad Diets - os Today's diets
Bags -co What's in a bag
Baltimer -ch The other Baltimore
Banquet -hk Sancho discovers the properties of tobacco.
Barbeque -sp Don Quixote's barbeque
Barnum -jk Barnum remembers good old days
Barrow -hk George Barrow and The Bible in Spain
Bartram - ind William Bartram -naturalist
Bath - hk Don Quixote and Sancho enjoy a bath and other adventures
Battle - Battle of Mice and Frogs in Modern Times
Bayes - ou How to improve predictions
Bear baiting - st Hudibras releases the bear
Bees - ro Mandeville's Grumbling Hive
Beginning - st Quixote's Fifth Sally
Ben - co Ben Minor's obit
Bibliomania - gl Book collecting a disease for which there is no cure.
Birth -egl Birth of a consumer society
Biting bugs Biting Bugs
Black death - ch Samuel Pepys' diary of the Plague
Blindman's knot - rk The bowline knot tied by an easier method
Bliss - sn Ignorance is bliss
Blue laws -hk Blue Laws - Connecticut's from the 1700's.
Boiled peanuts - egl Ode to a Southern Delicacy
Bombardier - ro Oelker's war poems
Book- ra Ode to a good book, Latent Knowledge and the Printed Word
Books -sn Book collecting, a malady without solution
Bottle - rk Bottle babes and ear twitchers
Boy King - pe Prince Philippe and our Own Prince Charming
Boyle - pi Robert Boyle - Chemist
Brann - ind William Cowper Brann
Brann's cat -dv WCB discovers that a cat has nine lives but he doesn't
Brooks - gl Historians are not squirrels
Browne - os Sir Thomas Browne
Brydges - os The Iliad in Modern Times (1800)
Bubonic plague - ch London's Plague (Black Death) of 1665
Bugs - ch Bugs that bite and how to avoid
Bumbling - ou Mahtrow' update of Mandeville's Fable
Butler, Samuel -sn Hudibras explained
Butler's chemist - ro Ode to a Chemist
Buzzard Banquet - pi Buzzards on Road Kill
Buzzard Fable - pi Buzzard are Road Kill
Calf - ra How to carve a calves' head
Capon - cr From the egg to the table
Carnitine - pe Lysine and carnitine
Carolina - gl Lawson's Voyage to Carolina (written in 1707)
Carter os Nobel Peace Prize according to Butler/a>
Cat cutting - ch Population control of feral cats
Cat- gl Economist and cats in a dark room
Cat - hk Don Quixote and a cat in a tree
Caterwalling -sp Butler's Poem on cats
Cat's shoes - st A cat's shoe fetish
Catlin - cr George Catlin. Tribute
Cave - hk Don Quixote and Sancho Panza underground
Cereal - jk The road to Wellville
Chraracter - ro Character of an old priest
Chaucer - gl Chaucer's tale of the Cock and Fox, part on
Chaucer - gl Chaucer's tale of the Cock and Fox, part two
Chaucer - gl Chaucer's tale of the Cock and Fox, part three
Chaucer's dictionary -sp Dictionary for Chaucer's Cock and Fox
Chaucer's synonymes -mu Chaucer's synonymes
Chemist - ro Butler's poem on chemist (and other scientist)
Chewing gum - ro Chewing gum satire
Chickens - pi A chicken is not a bird
Christmas - ch An Old English Christmas
Christmas ball -os Gasket's Christmas Present
Christmas in England - ch An Old English Christmas according to Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Sketch Book, Washington Irving) part one
Christmas in England -ch An Old English Christmas according to Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Sketch Book, Washington Irving) part two
Christmas in England - ch An Old English Christmas according to Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Sketch Book, Washington Irving) part three
Christmas in England - ch An Old English Christmas according to Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Sketch Book, Washington Irving) part four
Christmas in England -ch An Old English Christmas according to Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Sketch Book, Washington Irving) part five
Christmas tree - ja A different Christmas story
Christmas with Brann - pe William Cowper Brann's Christmas Message
Christmas thief - bb A Y2K Christmas Story
Churchill - st Churchill's view of critics
Civilization -dv Civilization's only three meals thick
Coach - st Sancho travels coach class
Cocoa - dv America's gifts
Comma - sn Here's where to put the comma
Commercialization - dv The commercialization of Education
Commodification of education - pe Commodification
Complain - pi Sharing the blame for events when they go wrong
Compleat Plagiary - mu Plagiary has been around for a long time
Conclusion - hk The conclusion to Sidi Mahtrow's Don Quixote
Congress - os Congress in action
Conjecture - egl The science of making a good guess
Cons - jk Patent cons
Cook - jk James H. Cook's Nebraska
Coop - bb Summer's Forgotten Man part one
Coop - bb Summer's Forgotten Man, part two
Coop - bb Summer's Forgotten Man, part three
Coop - bb Summer's Forgotten Man, part four
Cooter - sn Cooter turtles are best deep fat fried
Copying - sn Copying is unethical
Copyright - ind Get a copyright - it's cheap protection
Copyrighting - bb Inventions, patents, etc
Cornerstones - cr Van Wingerden's philosophy
Corvus - co All about crows
Cotton - rk Pickin' cotton
Crayon - dv Irving's Christmas poem
Crip - rk Ol' Crip the Chicken
Critics critic - dv Critics cirtics ciritic
Critics - dv Ode to critics
Croup - ra The disease and how to treat
Crow - jk Bartram's crow (Tom)
Curmudgeon - rk What exactly is a curmudgeon?
Darwin's goats - sp Nature's selection
Darwin's fish - sp A poem about a very bright fish
Data Dredging - ou Data dredging or meta analysis gone wrong
Dean - cn Howard Dean on trucks and dogs
Decisions - cn Bob Graham on making decisions
Democracy - bb Democracy, part one, Thomas Green Fessenden
Democracy - bb Democracy, part two, Thomas Green Fessenden
Democracy - bb Democracy, part three, Thomas Green Fessenden
Democracy - bb Democracy part four, Thomas Green Fessenden
Desert Snake - dv The Mideast Desert Snakes
Determinators - egl Determinators of truth: authority, sense, and reason
Devil's Dictonary - ibs Bierce's Devil's Dictionary
Devolution - ou Devolution of animals
Dexterpanzaid - bb Sancho Panza returns and Timothy Dexter
Didler - st Didler Bill, explained
Diet - bb Foolishness in choice of foods
Directory A-H - ou JSW pages on USD Internet
Directory I-Z - ou JSW pages on USD Internet
Disclaimer - rk jsw's responsibility
Dishes - gl Meat for the table, more on your plate than you imagine
Doctor - ind Doctor
Dog - st Doing the dog (or properly what dogs do)
Domino - bb Tales from the domino parlor in Athens, Texas
Dorothy - bb Dorothy Harwig - an obit
Dub - rk Brother Dub, aka Albert William Wortham
Dumb - co Dumbing down kids and such
Durrant - dv Will Durrant's philosophy
E. Moore - ro Satire on Governments treatment of poets and writers
Earth - ma The Missouri "endangered" at the time of Lewis and Clark
Easter eggs - rk The fine art of coloring Easter eggs
Eats Shoots - cn Where to put a comma
Eb - gl Waste not, want not - in the Texas tradition
Eco-batt - jk EPA is off the wall
Economie - mu The economy according to archys
Economist - gl An Economist view of cats
Edible - bb Edible polymers are nothing new
Education - ma Grant, Burbank and Royko
Egrets - ja Snowy White Egrets
Elements - ra JSW's new periodic table - Nu
Elephant on the Moon - sn Butler's Elephant in modern times (energy resources)
Elephant on the Moon - sn Samuel Butler's Elephant on the moon (in long verse)
Endangered - os Endangered Species
Engineer - mu The engineer and the jig-builder
English - ra Can't spell
Epilog1 - hk The Epilog to Mahtrow's Quixote in four parts
Epilog2 - hk Second part of Mahtrow's Epilog to Don Quixote
Epilog3 - hk Third part of Mahtrow's Epilog to Don Quixote
Epilog4 - hk Fourth and concluding part to Mahtrow's Don Quixote
Episcopalian - mu Izaac Walton - Episcopalian
Equal - gl All Men are CREATED equal
Equality - ro Equality's a myth
Erasmus Darwin - egl Fessenden on the philosophy of Erasmus Darwin
Escape - ma Ehrlich's escape from society
Espy - ja Snallygaster and such
Estrange - bb Words coined by Sir Roger Estrange
Ethics - ou Ethics and motivation
Eulogies - ro Eulogies to Mr. John Oldham
Eutaw Place - egl Baltimore revisited
Everglades - cr The River of Grass, reviewed
Evolution - egl Darwin got it right
Exemplary Tales - ch Cervantes Exemplary Tales -- The missing tale (#13) by Mahtrow.
Exlax - ra FDA on laxatives and such
Fable - ch Fable of the Bees or The Grumbling Hive
Fads - ro The placebo effect
Fallacies - rk Quixote discovers teaching logic has its own rewards
Father - ibis Great White Father
Fatstat - pe Statistics can you trust them?
Feathers - pi A chicken is not a bird
Fed Reserve - ro Mr. Greenspan
Female - ind On the Weakness of the fair sex: Dr. Chase
Fessemden - bb Jefferson's democracy
Fessenden on critics - sp Tractoration
Fewmets - egl Congressional jousting
Fiction mounds - ja Florida Indians
Fifth sally - dv Quixotes at it again
Fifth branch -dv The Fifth Branch of Government
Figures - pi Figures don't lie
Fire - pe Free Energy(?)
Fish - co Audubon plays a joke on Rafinesque but gets it wrong
Fish - jk How to catch a fish
Flax - hk Rendering flax into linen according to Quixote
Florida - pi Not the Florida you imagine
Flyaway islands- hk Quixote battles necromancers with a rare instrument
Forgotten man - ch Sumner's Cooperative Commonwealth -the Forgotten Man
Fothergill - cr Bartram's friend and financial resource
Franklin - ind Ben Franklin's ode to a dead squirrel
Free - pi Free or almost free in Florida
Free lunch - dv Everyone wants a free lunch
Free trade - gl Don Quixote and Frederic Bastiat on Free trade
Frogs - co Tribute to Earl Frieden, the big frog
Fruit of the Stable - pe Sancho discovers the manufacture of gun powder (sort of)
Fruit cake - ja The perfect gift that just keeps on giving
Fulling mills - ch Preparation of woolen cloth in Cervantes' time by the process of fulling.
Funeral Director - sn Tom Daschle the funeral director
GABA - co What's going on in your head
Galvani - bb Mrs. Galvani deserves the credit
Gammon - cr John Kerry lies
Gasket - jk How to drown an expensive cat
Gates - cn Gates and fellow humbugs
Geoffrin - co Now here's a lady who understood saloons.
Georgia nut - egl Georgia's own favorite son
Gertie - ro A famous termite
Ghost - ra From the blind publisher of Udahl (Iowa). Ghost stories
Global warming - sn Who's afraid of Global Warming?
Gluttony - egl Charles Churchill on Gluttony
Gnome - ma Gregg's story about a yard gnome
Goats - sp Darwin's Goats
Gold - ja On the production of gold leaf and other gold products
Gopher - bb Gopher turtles are good to eat
Gore, Al - ch An Allegory (Al'lie'Gore'e") Phonetics(?)
Grant - ma Memories of American Lady
Graunt - sn The first statistician
Great White Father - ib Trust the Great White Father
Green peanuts - egl Beware of green peanuts
Green turtles - gl Turtles are good to eat!
Greenjeans - ro The Fed's tease
Greetings - ro A politically correct Christmas greeting
Guest - rk An uninvited guest for breakfast
Gull - cr How can I gull you? Not about birds (or maybe it is).
Gunpowder - ch Production of Gunpowder
Gustafson - st Pete Gustafson
Haldane - pi Trust not information
Harris - ma Up the Missouri with Audubon
Hatfield - ro Hatfield and McCoys in modern times
Heller - pe Joseph Heller, Bombardier
History - ma Outline of writings put in chronological order
History of Don Quixote - hk Don Quixote tells how his story came to be written.
Hobson - ja Hobson's Choice on choosing a horse and a leader
hogs - ch New York's latest crop of brutes (PWT)
Holmes - bb Childbirth fever
Home - mu Mom and Dad on the farm
Hopkins - ib Ernest Hopkins Enlarged Devil's Dictionary
Hops - ch Hops - Are they soporific? They are more than just for beer
Horse Tails - ib Jumping Farm Horses
Horse Trader - co Obit for Judge Wortham
Hubcaps - ma Those Amazing Madison Wisconsin people
Huckster - cr Advertisements and promos
Hudibras - gl Butler's Hudibras in a different light
Huggins - ma Emperor of haircuts and words
Humbug - st Humbug Molly Ivins
Hunting- pi If you shoot it, you gotta eat it
Husk - ra Tamales
Hypochondriack - Hypochondriack and the Vapors
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