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Comedian Jon Lovitz is 53.

>>> SOUTH SOUND SPECIFIC

Ezra Meeker, the man who founded Puyallup, died on December 3, 1928, in room 412 of the Frye Hotel in Seattle. He was 27 days shy of his 98th birthday. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that as he lay dying, two chartered airplanes flew above the Frye loaded with coastal rhododendrons, Washington's state flower. As the planes soared over the hotel they "dipped their wings in salute and the pilots released their blossoms, which showered the hotel and the crowds in nearby streets." (Thanks HistoryLink)

>>> WORD OF THE DAY

terete \te-'ret\ adjective [L teret-, teres well turned, rounded; akin to L terere to rub] (ca. 1619)

Approximately round or cylindrical but usually tapering at both ends

Usage example: "If you look closely, which you probably shouldn't get so close, you'll notice that Mel Gibson's head is ever so slightly terete in shape, due to the amazing proliferation of bizarre worm-like creatures growing in his alienesque skull."

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RAPID CITY JOURNAL REPORTS: A member of the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Commission has resigned. Merton Clarkson of Ludlow served on the commission since April 2003. Gov. Mike Rounds announced Monday that he accepted Clarkson's resignation with regret. Clarkson cited personal reasons.

It's the Weekly Volcano's guess that Clarkson left South Dakota in search for better pay and a change, a fact which should probably cause no reaction in anyone reading this because after all, it's South Dakota, and unless you're deeply into farming there's no real reason to stick around when you could be headin' out for the wild crazy states of Iowa and Nebraska, where the real action is, because they have like, a Starbucks and stuff.

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