A former British paratrooper has walked 30,000 miles through 29 countries since leaving Chile in 1998. At the English Channel, he asked to walk through the tunnel. The answer was no. He swam.

The dinner at a certain boarding house was so bad that the old dog on the porch howled whenever the bell rang. One boarder listened for a week, then walked over.

— from More Toasts, 1922. Got one worse than that? Hit reply.

The brochure said tropical. The donkey would like a word.

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October 20, 1973: Queen Elizabeth II opened the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Builders began in 1959, expecting four years of work and a $7 million bill. The job took 14 years and cost $102 million, more than 14 times the estimate. Today it hosts about 3,000 events a year.

Also today: same date, 1962. “Monster Mash” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Bobby Pickett sang it as an impression of the horror actor Boris Karloff. The BBC banned it that year as “too morbid.” A 1973 re-release climbed back to No. 10 in the United States.

In April 1964, Ford unveiled a new car at the New York World’s Fair. What was it called?

A) Thunderbird
B) Falcon
C) Mustang
D) Fairlane

Answer’s at the very bottom. Try it first. 👀

Helga Duffy is 99 and spent most of her life as a nurse. This month she rode on the wing of a small biplane in Gloucestershire, England, strapped on in the open air. Guinness World Records named her the oldest wing-walker in the world.

A 97-year-old wing-walker had set a record in August. Duffy’s niece saw that news and wondered if her aunt could try. The staff at her care home in Devizes agreed. She had a bad right knee and went anyway.

The flight raised more than £1,600 (about $2,000) for an air ambulance charity. Duffy’s motto is to try anything, because you cannot know what you can do until you have tried.

Keep smiling,
The Distraction Desk

C — Mustang. The base price was about $2,300. Almost 22,000 buyers ordered one on the first day, and 418,812 sold in the first year.

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