Jesse Helms

...is still dead.

 

They named a section of the low-cost upper-deck seats at Staples Center after Dave Taylor. Then they fired him.

Draw your own conclusions. [/birdie]

 

That may be one of the most remarkable coincidences since that schoolmaster inadvertently put in the codewords to the D-Day invasion in a crossword puzzle on June 5, 1944.

 

Bird, if you get time, can you explain that reference about the crossword puzzle?

 

Sure, Mark.

In May of 1944, members of MI5, Britain's secret service, were puttering around with the Daily Telegraph crossword puzzle when they revealed the following clues:

"Utah" and "Omaha": code for the two beaches the Americans were landing at on Normandy.

"Mulberry": code for the floating harbor that was going to support the supply ships for the invasion:

"Overlord": the code word for the entire operation.

Naturally, MI5 thought this was code to tip off the Germans. They sent two agents to the puzzlemaster's house. During their interrogation, it turned out the puzzlemaster was a teacher who had no idea what was going to happen the following month.

 

I didn't know that about D-Day. Wild. Wilder, I guess, than George Nixon and Mary Jane Kennedy both working in the same city and having schools named in their honor.