I'm intrigued to see the heated arguments that metrical theory could arouse throughout September 2001 (beginning in the small hours of September 11).
I thought I'd just add a follow-up to the Murphy and Churchill preposition stories, though I can't remember where I heard it; it concerns a small boy in bed who asks his mother to fetch a book about Austria from downstairs and to read a chapter of it to him; unfortunately his mother brings him one about Australia. At which point the boy asks:
"What did you bring that book to read out of about Down Under up for?"
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