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Monday Miscellany

1. I saw a personalized license plate the other day on the way home, which was funny for 2 reasons:* (1) it said PNCREAS , which is just a plain funny word, and (2) who gets PNCREAS as a personalized license plate? You have to pay extra for that, and someone thought, "I know, I will get a personalized license plate trumpeting my undying love for an organ that is both an endocrine gland and an exocrine gland."** I mean, what ? 2. I saw a mouse in the kitchen today and literally screamed, and then laughed because (a) I've seen mice before--my mother's house is an old farm house and we would usually get one or two mice a year when the weather changed, and (b) could I be more of a cliche? But it's scary to be standing in your kitchen waiting for your coffee to be done and see something scurrying out of the corner of your eye, even if you know right away that it's just a mouse. Now, unfortunately, I'm going to have to buy a trap. I don't mind mice,