I need a little help deciphering the post game alerts I get from the Orioles and the Cubs. At the end of the score sheet are 3 columns marked R, H, and E. R=runs, H I’m guessing = hits, but what does the E stand for?
BTW thanks to all those chiffers who talked me into cheering for the Orioles since they appear to be doing quite well. I also earned extra cool points from my Blues Brothers loving eldest son for supporting the Cubs.
Errors, I believe. I was good at those in school.
Outside a small Macedonian village, close to the border between Greece and strife-torn Yugoslavia, a lone Catholic nun keeps a quiet watch over a silent convent. She is the last caretaker of a site of significant historic developments. The convent once served as a base for the army of Attila the Hun. In more ancient times, a Greek temple to Eros, the god of love, occupied the hilltop site.
The Huns are believed to have first collected and then destroyed a large gathering of Greek legal writs at the site. It is believed that Attila wanted to study the Greek legal system and had the writs and other documents brought to the temple.
When the Greek church took over the site in the 15th Century and the convent was built, church leaders ordered the pagan statue of Eros destroyed, so another ancient Greek treasure was lost. Today, there is only the lone sister, watching over the old Hun base.
And that’s how it ends:
No Huns, no writs, no Eros, and nun left on base.
Best wishes,
Jerry
What was the Abbott and Costello routine that was used in “Rain Man”- the film with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman?
That was very funny but I cannot remember the start of it 
Slan,
D.
It begins thus:
Abbott: Well Costello, I’m going to New York with you. You know Bookie Harris, the Yankee’s manager, gave me a job as coach for as long as you’re on the team.
Costello: Look Abbott, if you’re the coach, you must know all the players.
Abbott: I certainly do.
Costello: Well you know I’ve never met the guys. So you’ll have to tell me their names, and then I’ll know who’s playing on the team.
Abbott: Oh, I’ll tell you their names, but you know it seems to me they give these ball players now-a-days very peculiar names.
Costello: You mean funny names?
Abbott: Strange names, pet names…like Dizzy Dean…
Costello: His brother Daffy.
Abbott: Daffy Dean…
Costello: And their French cousin.
Abbott: French?
Costello: Goofè.
Abbott: Goofè Dean. Well, let’s see, we have on the bags, Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third…
Costello: That’s what I want to find out.
Abbott: I say Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know’s on third.
Costello: Are you the manager?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: You gonna be the coach too?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: And you don’t know the fellows’ names?
Abbott: Well I should.
Costello: Well then who’s on first?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: I mean the fellow’s name.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The guy on first.
Abbott: Who.
etc.
Here’s a link to the whole text:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml
Best wishes,
Jerry
Here’s the audio:
http://www.phoenix5.org/humor/WhosOnFirstAudio.mp3
Best wishes,
Jerry
I’m cracking up here..
That’s the first time I have heard the original in all its glory…
Thanks a million Gerry,
Slan,
D. 
There are no parts for the string basses in Beethovens Ninth Symphony between the beginning of the first movement and late in the final movement. So a couple of the bassists decide before one performance that, as they sit in the very rear of the orchestra, they wouldn’t be missed if they slipped off for awhile. They planned this in advance, and, just in case they were a little late getting back, they tied a ribbon around the conductor’s score so that he’d have a little difficulty turning the page before the one where they come in. So, in the middle of the first movement, they slipped out and went to the pub across the street. They’d planned on having one quick round, but one thing led to another, and they suddenly realized they were coming in in just a couple of minutes. They stumbled across the street and made quite a ruckus coming in while the conductor was fumbling at his lectern, someone remarked:
It’s the end of the Ninth, the score is tied, and the basses are loaded.
E is error, as has been said. Here’s a list of most of the baseball abbreviations:
http://baseball-almanac.com/stats4.shtml
Beth
my two older boys (now 14 and 12) used to do this routine very well. It was hilarious to watch them do it.