Sometimes, We Just Make Things Hard For Ourselves

Lake with 45-letter name has spelling errors
The central Mass. lake has one of the world's longest place names

WEBSTER, Mass. - Officials have agreed to correct spelling errors in road signs pointing to a central Massachusetts lake with a 45-letter name.

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugg-agoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster has one of the world's longest place names. It's been spelled many different ways over the years. Some locals have given up and simply call it Lake Webster.

But after researching historical spelling combinations, the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester said local Chamber of Commerce officials agreed that some signs were wrong. There was an "o" at letter 20 where a "u" should have been, and an "h" at letter 38 where an "n" should go.

And Yet It's Not a Second-Hand Clothes Store

Old fashion anyone? That new stuff is so tacky--there are just not enough petticoats for our liking.

Thanks to Carrie M. for the photo.

Oh, No Thank You. Really.

Today's blog post is brought to you by the letter "g." Who knew how important it was to one's appetite?

Thanks to Martha V. for sending it.

Helpful, Humorous...or Odd?

A friend snapped this photo of THINGS THAT MAKE US [SIC] on display at the Barnes & Noble on 5th Avenue in NYC. Setting aside the thrill of that momentarily, we have to wonder...are we helpful, humorous, or odd?

That, by the way, is a rhetorical question.

And now to return to our previously mentioned state of thrill.

Thanks to Michael S. for the photo. Plik! And thanks, also, to Craig C., who sent us a similar shot from Florida a few weeks back, which we would have posted except we were on deadline.