Local Bidness

* Again, the All Sports Die-athon will be April, 24 at Ling Dong College. Noon is start time and the football team needs bodies. Live and breathing, not like ours. Talkin' to you Big Ell.

* PJs is a No Smoking and now also a No Kevin area. Ban for life begins immediately.
* Though the ban on some U.S. beef has been lifted, we won't see the effects of this until the end of April. This is from a Taiwanese importer, not the Poobah.

* Finally, for two of our co-bloggers who come from Above the Party, and have not figured out the search function on our blog or the read function in their brain, a definition of barbecue: Meat cooked in the dry heat of wood coals at temperatures around the boiling point of water (212*F at sea level). For the true etymology of the word, go to Smoky, click Getting Started on the left. Yes, I know that barbecue has become a catch-all word for any food thrown upon a grill. Still, it's a misnomer.