Cranky Large Medium reading, 17 October

Go away.

Why haven't you gone, yet? Don't you have some traffic to go play in? Oh, well. If you keep hanging around here, I suppose I will have to tell you a little something about yourself (maybe it will drive you away). So, here it is:

You are a smug, self-satisfied homebody. You have your opinions, and you're keeping them, regardless of any and all evidence. You make your friends laugh a lot (that's not necessarily a good thing), and are too thick-skinned -- or thick-skulled -- to let their laughter hurt your feelings. Unless it will get you somewhere. You will be immature when and if you marry; my sympathies to your mate.

And now, I suppose you're going to complain that you don't like what you read? So what else is new? Do you guess these people are all that happy with the news that, on this date in history, they breathed their last? Pope Boniface II, Sir Philip Bleedin' Sidney, Henry Pu Yi, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, William Cookworthy, Gustav Kirchhoff, Alfons Maria Jakob, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Jacques Hadamard, John Pitts, Sidney Joseph Perelman, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Paul Outerbridge, Frédéric Chopin, Julia Ward Howe, Billy Williams, Criss Oliva, Chris Acland, Jacob "Jay" Livingston, Derek Bell, Teresa Brewer, John Stuart, Vola Vale, Joan Hickson, Turk Broda, Colonel Adrian Scrope, Laura Secord, Christopher Glenn, Joey Bishop,

and Ernest J. "Tennessee Ernie" Ford.

Don't be ashamed.
Happy birthday, anyway.