Yes, You Can Cook Radishes!  Here Are 5 Tasty Ways  http://www.thekitchn.com/yes-you-can-cook-radishes-here-are-5-tasty-ways-tips-from-the-kitchn-219890

Dinner Tonight - Sautéed Cucumbers by Nick Kindelsperger http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2007/10/dinner-tonight-sauteed-cucumbers.html

Homonyms  This is the big category—the umbrella—under which we find homophones and homographs.  Homophones are words that sound alike, but have different meanings and spellings.  Examples of common homophones include:  their and there, deer and dear, hear and here, to, too, and two.   Homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and may have different pronunciations.  Examples of common homographs include:  does and does--He does like to run.  Does are female deer.  (Same spelling, different pronunciation.)  well and well Sam doesn't feel well today.  Our neighbors are digging a new well.  (Same spelling, same pronunciation.)  One way to remember the difference between the terms homophone and homograph is by looking at the derivation of the words:  HOMO ("same") + PHONE ("sound")  HOMO ("same") + GRAPH ("writing")  http://www.allaboutlearningpress.com/homophones/#difference

Laundry and Library = Libromat  A group of friends at Oxford University is developing a combination childhood education and laundry services center, a concept they've dubbed a "Libromat."  Team member Nicholas Dowdall, 25, zeroed in on picture book reading after stumbling on a study in Khayelitsha, a township of more than 300,000 in Cape Town, South Africa.  Mothers of infants were recruited and given eight weeks of training to read to their children.  The women reported a significant increase in the number of words that their kids understood and vocalized.  Team Libromat estimates the total cost to build and retrofit centers to be approximately $10,000 (including the machines, books and furniture).  They hope to attract 200 regular customers every month.  As part of their research, the Libromat team members conducted surveys with over 300 parents in South Africa, Guatemala, Cameroon and Uganda.  They found that roughly 80 percent were willing to pay for the service.  Meanwhile, 94 percent of those surveyed in South Africa even said they would walk as far as 30 minutes to go to a center.  Dowdall suspects the enthusiastic response is due to the lack of laundry services in urban areas.  Once people experience a Libromat, however, he believes they will recognize that they can get more out of it than just clean clothes.  He also added that each course will offer free slots for members of the community who cannot afford laundry services.  The team members have received initial funds of $200,000 from an investor to start three new centers in South Africa.  They will extend their program to eight weeks and, when classes are not in session, operate the center as a walk-in laundry and library service with children's books.  Centers will be managed directly by the team and will employ one educator, laundry manager and general assistant from the community.  "Everyone can go to the local Libromat center and get a class," Dowdall says.  Andrew Boryga  http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/10/27/452210361/rinse-spin-read-to-kids-its-a-mash-up-of-laundromat-and-library?utm_content=buffer03db0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

A mirror doesn’t reverse your image either left-to-right or top-to-bottom—it reverses your image front-to-back, that is, along the axis perpendicular to the mirror.  Imagine you had a hollow Halloween mask, and you turned it inside out.  That’s exactly what a mirror does:  it “turns you inside out,” so that you’re facing the opposite direction without having been rotated.  Julia Galef  http://measureofdoubt.com/2011/03/31/mirror-paradox/

Howard Thurston (1869–1936) was a stage magician from Columbus, Ohio.  His childhood was unhappy, and he ran away to join the circus, where his future partner Harry Kellar also performed.  Thurston was deeply impressed after he attended magician Alexander Herrmann's magic show and was determined to equal his work.  He eventually became the most famous magician of his time.  Thurston's traveling magic show was the biggest one of all; it was so large that it needed eight train cars to transport his road show.  Thurston is mentioned and appears briefly in Glen David Gold's novel Carter Beats the Devil concerning fellow stage magician Charles J. Carter and the Golden Age of magic in America.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurston

Welcome to trick questions  http://trick-questions.com/  Discussion on the gry riddle/trick question (Librarians around the country field this question.)   http://www.wiskit.com/marilyn/gry.html and http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html  Ambiguity, jokes, and trick questions by Chad Nilep http://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2013/12/09/ambiguity-jokes-and-trick-questions/

manipulative question  Do you want to prepare and serve my favorite food to me now or in one minute?  March 18, 2016 Dilbert comic strip  Not a true choice, but a question of when you will do it.  See also types of questions at http://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/question-types.html

A loaded question or complex question fallacy is a question that contains a controversial or unjustified assumption, such as a presumption of guilt.  A leading question or suggestive interrogation is a question that suggests the particular answer or contains the information the examiner is looking to have confirmed.

Morton's fork, a choice between two equally unpleasant options, is often a false dilemma.  The phrase originates from an argument for taxing English nobles:  "Either the nobles of this country appear wealthy, in which case they can be taxed for good; or they appear poor, in which case they are living frugally and must have immense savings, which can be taxed for good."  This is a false dilemma because it fails to allow for the possibility of nobles that are neither wealthy nor poor, or the possibility that those members of the nobility who appear poor may actually be poor.  Source:  Wikipedia

Mary Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) was an American writer and essayist born in Savannah, Georgia.  An important voice in American literature, she wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.  O'Connor attended Peabody High School, where she worked as the school newspaper's art editor and from which she graduated in 1942.  She entered Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College & State University), in an accelerated three-year program, and graduated in June 1945 with a Social sciences degree.  While at Georgia State College for Women, she produced a significant amount of cartoon work for the student newspaper.  In 1946, she was accepted into the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she first went to study journalism.  While there she got to know several important writers and critics who lectured or taught in the program, among them Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Robie Macauley, Austin Warren and Andrew Lytle.  Lytle, for many years editor of the Sewanee Review, was one of the earliest admirers of her fiction.  Regarding her emphasis of the grotesque, O'Connor said:  "anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic."   O'Connor's Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was named the "Best of the National Book Awards" by Internet visitors in 2009.  The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, named in honor of O'Connor by the University of Georgia Press, is a prize given annually since 1983 to an outstanding collection of short stories.  O'Connor was the first fiction writer born in the twentieth century to have her works collected and published by the Library of America, which occurred in 1988.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor

Garry Shandling's 'The Larry Sanders Show' is where the new age of television really began by Robert Lloyd   Garry Shandling, who trained as an electrical engineer, began as a comedy writer, then went into stand-up and became a frequent guest host of "The Tonight Show" died March 24, 2016.  For Showtime, he made "It's Garry Shandling's Show," a meta-meta-fictional sitcom in which he played a version of himself.  That series, which broke not only the fourth but the fifth wall, pulling the camera back far enough to make the studio audience part of the action, was something new.  Shandling's real legacy begins with "The Larry Sanders Show," which he created for HBO in 1992, in which he played a neurotic talk-show host whose life might have in some respects resembled his own. To my mind, this is where the new age of television—call it Golden or whatever you like—really begins.  It's a show that didn't settle for light or dark, for funny or not funny, for good people or bad; it was farcical and naturalistic at once, emotionally naturalistic, visually new—it had a documentary swing based on the exigencies of a low budget.  http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-garry-shandling-appreciation-20160324-column.html

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1446  March 25, 2016  On this date in 1867, Arturo Toscanini, Italian-American cellist and conductor, was born.  On this date in 1881, Mary Webb, English author and poet, was born.  On this date in 1925, Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist, was born.