POTPOURRI

When you mate someone in chess, that signals the end of the game and you win and they lose.  Why do they call it that?  When you mate with someone, that signals ...

Punctuation is so important.  These two have exactly the opposite meanings:
DON'T STOP!
DON'T! STOP!

An old adage:  You can't lose weight if you don't eat breakfast.

We have been aware of planets within our solar system for hundreds of years (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, ?Pluto?)  Most are visible with the naked eye.  All the stars we see are suns for other solar systems.  It wasn't until 1995, just 21 years ago, that Earthlings could prove there are planets outside of our solar system.  What will we know in another hundred years?

It is estimated that 62 families own half of the world's wealth.  Yes, I said only 62 families own fully half of all the wealth in the world.  Wow!

Our moon, the Moon, last weekend was spectacular.  We call all those heavenly bodies orbiting planets, moons but we give them each a name.  Our moon is The Moon.  It should have a different name.

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