Dear J.Crew

I see that you have labeled this color on your website as “crisp orange”.

I think the term you’re looking for is “blaze orange”.
Love, Me.

Aw maaaaaan

An email I just got from the department secretary, in its entirety:
Good afternoon, Seniors
This is just a reminder that there will be wine served at the end-of-the-year reception (see notice emailed on May 31) and that you will be carded.
The caterer’s bartenders have the right to refuse service if proper ID [...]

“Indignance” is not a word, apparently.

Do you want to know how long the spell check and I wrestled over this one today, before at long last I realized that the noun form of indignant is indignation?
No, you do not. Trust me.
Apparently it’s Spencer and myself against the world on this one. I still don’t quite believe it, partly because I [...]

Return of Ripley

More from a 1963 volume of fun facts for Kat’licks:

 The Blessed Mother’s tomb is believed to have been in the valley of the Cedron, near Jerusalem, the place where her body was assumed into Heaven.
St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest philosophers and theologians of the Church, was rewarded by being addressed by Christ on [...]