Folks of a certain age may remember the admonition broadcast from “beautiful downtown Burbank” to “look it up in your Funk & Wagnalls!” Actually at the time of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Steve’s family had a copy of the Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia on their bookshelves. In the same era the two of us had the opportunity to each add a copy of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary to our personal libraries as an asset during our university studies. Since then Steve’s copy has gone the way of all good things but Karen’s copy continued to occupy a place on our bookshelves. Neither of us can remember the last time we consulted the pages of this tome since it is so very easy to check the definition of any unfamiliar term with the powerful electronic device on our pocket. The time has come to let the Funk & Wagnalls vacate the space in our library but even if the book is gone, the great memories will remain!
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