2. Conversation Quotation
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~Oprah Winfrey
3. Jest Words
New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
~Mark Twain
4. Barbed Ire
"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected."
--Will Rogers
5. Word-a-Week: perturbation
purr-turr-BAY-shun
a disturbance of motion, course, arrangement, or state of equilibrium
"In order to change, most people first require that some perturbation of their lives has occurred."
6. La Triviata: Culture Quiz
(Check your answer at the end of today's article.)
7. Resourceville: Frugal-town
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9. Today's Answer
Whose law states that work will always last as long as the time
available for it?
Answer: Parkinson's Law
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Loren Ekroth, Ph.D. is a specialist in human communication and a national expert on conversation for business and social life.