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Nearly everyone knows that Judith Martin, better known as Miss Manners, the syndicated columnist, is exceedingly correct. Last week, she saw an advertisement in the newspaper that a Maryland jewelry store was having a sale in her silver pattern. Upon arriving at the store, she told the jeweler she was looking for additional dessert spoons in her pattern and had been making do with the larger soup spoons. "That's not much of a hardship," the employee said. "It is for me," Martin responded. Caught up in the moment, the saleswoman joked, "Who do you think you are, Miss Manners?" The easily recognizable Miss Manners looked at the woman, unable to respond. And then it registered. "Oh my God!" the saleswoman said. from the Jan 26 San Jose Mercury News
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Our correspondent in Poland reports that Wojciech Jaruzelski, Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Lech Walesa met in a summit conference, and the only thing that they could agree on was that George Bush has a funny name. From the SF Chronicle, Herb Caen's column
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St. Petersburg, Florida: A Florida woman is offering to sell one of her kidneys to pay off a hospital debt. Ruth Sparrow ran an ad over the weekend in The St. Petersburg Times. It read: "KIDNEY - Runs good. Taking offers." Sparrow is serious. She owes $20,000 for gall bladder surgery, and wants to pay it off. She says both her kidneys work fine and she's willing to part with one to settle her debt. She offered one directly to Bayfront Medical Center, which turned it down. The newspaper has stopped running the ad, since selling organs is illegal in Florida
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