jessica's favorite spring break activites

1. sleeping

2. reading

3. making snow angel's w/bunny ears

4. building snow rabbits, chicks, and ducklings

5. digging car out of snow drift

6. building the snow cave with snow bolder door that can be doubled as a part of the rolling away the stone Easter Extravaganza Show

the words today are tremendous:

ha-ha (ha-ha) noun

Sunk fence.

[From French haha, reduplicative of ha!, exclamation of surprise, that might

come out when tripped by such an obstacle.]

"They covet our haha fences, tucked out of view by ditches and so named because of their surprise value." Tina Kelley, Zoo Nice To See You: Woodland Park Basks In Spotlight, The Seattle Post-Intelligen cer, Sep 19, 1995.

Instead of explaining in a thousand words what a ha-ha looks like, I'll show you a picture: http://www.yale.edu/yup/images/bormann3.jpg

Etymologists claim we got the word ha-ha from ha!, the sound one might exclaim on getting tripped by that trap, otherwise known as a sunken fence. I'm sure they have done their research and are right. But I can't help thinking it might have been derived from the laughter of a French aristocrat when an unsuspecting guest tripped while visiting his chateau.

farrago fuh-RAH-go; fuh-RAY-go, noun; plural farragoes:

A confused mixture; an assortment; a medley.

Ivan Illich writes "a farrago of sub-Marxist cliches, false analogies, non sequiturs, false or bent facts and weird prophesies." --"The Paul Johnson Enemies List," [1]New York Times, September 18, 1977

Roy Hattersley will upset much of Scotland by calling Walter Scott's lvanhoe "a farrago of historical nonsense combined with maudlin romance." --"Literary classics panned by critics," [2]Independent, January 18, 1999

From the moment the story of the Countess of Wessex and the Sheikh of Wapping broke, there has been a farrago of rumour, speculation and fantasy of which virtually every newspaper should be ashamed. --Roy Greenslade, "A sting in the tale," [3]The Guardian, April 9, 2001

Farrago comes from the Latin farrago, "a mixed fodder for cattle,"hence" a medley, a hodgepodge,"from far, a sort of grain.

Today's Band: Old Zion Missionary BC Choir

for that panicked sprint to the gospel tent that leaves you 15 minutes to savor the harmonies of the Old Zion Missionary BC Choir. It's a taste of immortality, for sure.

my notes: this group sounds like it will be tasty. ha-ha (and i do not mean the sunken fence) i vote yes.