GREEN BAY, Wis. - At 103 years old, Leone Margaret McKenney couldn't see or hear much over the crowd's roars at her first Packers game - but she had the time of her life.
"I will never forget this. It was a humdinger," the great-great-grandmother said after Sunday's game. "I don't know when I have enjoyed anything as much as I enjoyed that."
McKenney said she had never been to a Packers game when she was younger because her husband wasn't "too keen about football" and she never had the opportunity, even though her family moved to the Green Bay area in 1947.
But she keeps a picture of legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr in her apartment and wears Packers garb as she watches every game.
On Sunday, quarterback Brett Favre threw his first touchdown pass in five games, giving the Packers a 23-17 victory over the Seattle Seahawks.
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"It was fabulous, and then to have a win," she said, "that was almost more than I could bear."
Associated Press
Made to order
Do you want to spice up your order? Try some diner slang from "Schott's Original Miscellany."
- Murphy - potatoes
- Splash of red - tomato soup
- Adam's ale - water
- Moo juice - milk
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- Belch water - soda water
- On wheels - to go
- Bucket of hail - glass of ice
Back to the books
Everything you thought you knew was wrong.
Well, not everything.
But the book "Contrary to Popular Belief" takes great joy in debunking some common misconceptions as seen in last month's issue of Glamour.
- Apparently Cinderella did not wear glass slippers, at least not in the early French version, where she sported vair, or "squirrel fur." Following versions used the word verre, or "glass."
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- Diamonds aren't forever. They'll turn to glass at 3,500 degrees Celsius.
- "Let them eat cake" is typically associated with Marie Antoinette but the source of the quote was more likely uttered by a Grenoble princess 15 years before Antoinette was born.
Obscure word of the day
Urtication - The act of whipping a palsied or benumbed limb with nettles to restore its feeling; a sort of flagellation with nettles, used with the intention of exciting the skin.
"The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten"
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