7/9. I could figure out a lot of the earlier ones by recalling what grade I was in at the time.

One correction to the Social Security story: the first recipient was from Ludlow, Vermont, not Virginia.

Frenchify made me think of some great Russian slang for syphillis: parizhskii nasmark, or Parisian headcold.

When I was studying Russian a fellow student came running up to me before class. The epitome of a slacker, never prepared, he was looking for an excuse for not having his oral presentation ready. He asked me if I knew the word for cold. I told him it was parizhskii nasmark. He went in to the prof and told him that's what he had. The teacher laughed for a good ten minutes before telling the guy that if he had the clap, he ought to head over to the student clinic.

Denshoku black + orange, please.

Kisai Denshoku
flame sits glowing on my wrist
onlookers are awed

He deserves every bit of it.

Fish spear

My wife made something similar to this out of fleece a couple of years ago. She kept talking so much about how warm and comfortable it was that I had her make one for me. We keep our house on the cool side in the winter and this thing is great when laying around on the couch in the evening.