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• Crying "Beaver!"

  This weekend, your pal Scanner Colleen did some spring cleaning in preparation for a yard sale next weekend. I boxed up dozens of books for the sale. A book about interjections called Zounds! almost got tossed into the yard sale mix, until I flipped through and my attention was grabbed by an exclamation I'd never heard of before:  "Beaver!" Scanner Emily especially will be interested to hear what occasion caused the shouting of this word by little children in the early twentieth century... Read More... Posted Apr 06 2009, 05:01 PM by Colleen Kane with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: beer, beaver, beavers, english language, beer-o, interjections, old-tymey talk, exclamations, zounds!

• While You Were Sleeping: Lindsay Lohan's Crushing News

  The Black Crowes are taking recording back to the era of the basement-- the basement tapes, that is. They'll perform four sold-out concerts at Levon Helm's house and use them for their next record. Watch Richard Simmons, our personal hero, attack a CNN interviewer's foot live on air. A four-year-old boy named Nathan Beavers shot his eighteen-year-old male babysitter for...? Read More... Posted Jan 06 2009, 09:02 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: richard simmons, marriage, divorce, breakups, rihanna, jennifer love hewitt, cnn, patricia arquette, engaged, john travlota, wedding, Breakup of the Week, samantha ronson, deaths, babysitter, breakup, lindsay lohan, gaza, black crowes, beavers