Dave

I retired after 40 years of bus driving on the campus routes of Indiana University, Duke, and University of North Carolina; I regret that I never thought to yell out MOVE ARREAR to get my passengers to move back. There were many times when they'd cluster up front like learned sardines.

Hats off to the constructor's mom: snicklefritz is given the day in the sun it needs; that's a jewel of a word there, rarer than the finest onyx.

It's humbling to know, after many years of trumpet playing, that there's more to learn. "Tucket" was a stage direction in Elizabethan drama, and lo, oer the intervening years, the term rests smartly in mine ear.

So many uses for chalk--- 1. Blackboards 2.Playgrounds 3. Billiards 4. Rock climbing 5. Gymnastics And I'd add in the use from the classical music world: string players who rosin the beaux!