Thanks for getting my "forbidden" status removed. Pleasure and education has returned!
Hole to China: When they were drilling the mohole (to the Mohorovicic discontinuity between the earth's crust and mantle), I half-facetiously said, "if successful, they will bring in a volcano like an oil gusher." When my geology professor said that if you drill far enough, you will strike water, I replied, "Yes, the Indian Ocean." I think I was like Caulfield in the comic strip Frazz.
Reply to those who think "whom" is improper: "Can't you be objective?"
AP no (in haiku): I agree, but prefer APA to Chicago.
Tutor: If the subject is wind instruments, they tutor tooters to toot.
More properly, a European polecat is what is being sold as ferret today; less smell, but same family. European invaders misnamed the skunk, thinking it was the closest New World thing to the European polecat. The mink is probably closer.
I use «whom » commonly, but only after a preposition (to whom, by whom). It seems unnatural to me as just a direct object (Whom am I supposed to meet?)...
The "pound of pennies" item reminded me of a saying used in the gay community that references the duality of something being desirable but also a nuisance. That saying is "She's a pretty little dress, but a bitch to iron."