THIS N THAT

💬America's original amusement theme park opened in Southern California 100 years ago.  (No, Disneyland is not that old.)  It is called Knott's Berry Farm.  It's still in operation.

💬In 1886, an Austrian named Wilhelm Steinitz won the first organized World Chess Championship.  (Steinitz later became an American citizen.)  Future chess tourneys were held periodically; usually every two or three years.  In 1972, the first American won the title - yes, Bobby Fischer.  No American has won the sanctioned title since.  (You should know that I used to really love chess.)

💬 The planet Jupiter has at least 79 moons.  (That must get confusing at night.)  One of those moons (we call it Ganymede) is larger than the planet Mercury.  

💬 One of the great English English language poets was William Wadsworth.  (No, I didn't stutter - he was English.)  Like all great poets, he knew what a word was worth.  

💭 Guess which symbol I was stuck on tonight?  Doh!  I think parenthesis are just like those coats people put on their dogs to allay their fears.  You enclose a stupid remark between a pair of them and it all seems nominal. (That's an astronaut's "nominal".)  

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