Fun fact!

When you sign up for organ donation in AZ, they want to know how you heard about the program. One of your options is "Jewish Arbor Day."

Google has no idea what Jewish Arbor Day is.

I figure "how many people can POSSIBLY pick 'Jewish Arbor Day?'" so I picked them, just for the pure eclectic thrill of it.

The OED Unabridged maintains 9 different entries for "poop" (5 nounds, 4 verbs).

Alas for maiden, alas for Judge,
For rich repiner and household drudge!
God pity them both! and pity us all,
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall;
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

--John Greenleaf Whittier

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

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