A caller with a 25-year-old parrot wonders: How much language do birds really understand? Plus, Knock-knock. Who’s there? Boo. Well… you can guess the rest. But there was a time when these goofy jokes were a brand-new craze sweeping the nation...
Diamond in the rough usually points to unrealized promise, not simply a bright spot among lesser company. Molly in Allen, Texas, encountered a lively split over that distinction, but the older image comes from the diamond trade: a rough diamond has...