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  1. My grandmother told me that in the 30s there was an ad for Life Bouy soap, which, I believe, was where the term B.O. was coined: "Now I know the awful truth. I have B.O." And the first part, about the awful truth, was very popular.

     

    Is that anything like "Simple chronic halitosis"??

     

    What product was associated with that? Scope?

  2. Well, somebody is concerned about something. My daughter works for Baxter Labs in IL. Her department has had to procure special permission from Baxter to fill abnormally huge orders of drugs and equipment for the DC area hospitals - just for preparation for the inauguration.

     

    It seems reasonable to me that the hospitals would want to be prepared to meet the potential medical needs of the more then one million people who were in DC today. *shrug*

  3. That's not my understanding...but I could be wrong.

     

    I'm looking for another answer to part B.

     

    And for you to "prove" me wrong :tongue_smilie:

     

    Bill

     

    According to my earlier search John Adams was the first to take an oath. It appears now this may have been incorrect.

     

    (George Washington was first sworn in by Robert Livingston, the chancellor of the State of New York in 1789,

     

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States

     

    Point for you SpyCar. :001_smile:

  4. Singing to a recording in 27 degree weather is quite a trick - I thought she did fairly well, all things considered.

     

    You know who DID impress me?

     

    The quartet: Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and the clarinet & piano. HOW did they DO that? It was freezing! I mean, I think the clarinet had a latex barrel to help with the pitch, but for the life of me I don't know how the piano stayed in tune and they matched pitch. Cold does nasty, nasty things to wood instruments. The area they were playing in must have had some kind of heat source - if you watched Yo Yo Ma, he was clearly having a great time! Plus - John Williams' arrangement of Simple Gifts was just - well - dazzling.

     

    String instruments can be tempermental under the wrong weather conditions. I thought they all played beautifully.

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