Yes, it was because of this place I have collected 140 different daylilies in two years. And, I plan to keep collecting. It's a drop in a bucket compared to the number others have on this forum, but not bad considering I just started to seriously collect them last year. And I love looking at the photos everyone shares here, it just makes my daylily want list that much longer. This forum is also where I learned how to make my own crosses, which is just as fun, if not more so, than collecting named cultivars. I made my first crosses last summer, winter sowed the seeds in February, and now most of the seedlings are at least ten inches tall, growing in their own pots and will be planted in the ground this fall. Still have to build a raised bed for them, but I'll get to it some time this summer. Karen

Chris, thanks for the link. Steven Pinker is an excellent man! Vee, I will wager that you have heard or read different than, but perhaps it didn't register. 'Course, there's no way I can prove it. :-) Here are a few examples from well-known writers, cited in the OED: She, too, had one day hoped for a different lot than to be wedded to a little gentleman who rapped his teeth. -- William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis Oliver Goldsmith used different than. 18th century ...and when Helen handed it to me, I said, "I thought these things were different than they used to be." -- James Thurber, letter, 31 July 1952 I'm no different than you. -- Frank Shorter, quoted in Springfield (Mass.) Daily News, 3 June 1986 Different than isn't always wrong -- even to pedants. 'Than' is sanctioned when a comparison is made with a full clause following; e.g., The town is different than it was in my youth. It can be argued that it is the more economical, less clumsy construction. To say the same thing with from: The town is different from how it was in my youth. Whichever sounds better to you is the way you should say it, but with the awareness that a person who says it the other way is not wrong, though that person may be willing to say that you are! Different than follows the same model as 'other than' and 'rather than.' The different from/to/than controversy began in the late nineteenth century (1897), according to the OED. All three forms had been used prior -- as far back as Shakespeare -- but the pedants got together to impose their exalted opinions on all the common speakers, and it's been hell ever since. ;-)

Yea, Erica! You got it right with Johnny Weissmuller. You probably knew that already because all the clues fit together when you get it right. Some information/explanations: He won a total of 5 Olympic gold medals, 3 in the Paris 1924 and 2 in the Amsterdam 1928 Olympic Games (clues included collected gold, two very successful gold finding trips, played games in Paris, famous for something before he was a famous actor, part of the golden age of sports (1920's) before he was part of the golden age of Hollywood). I really didn't think about one's golden years until I saw how that clue was interpreted yesterday. I thought someone would have googled golden age and found out about the golden age of sports. The US Olympic committee calls him swimming'a first superstar. I really thought someone would have gotten it with clue 5. He was a legendary swimmer, and he starred as Tarzan, the legendary lord of the jungle. Further I used the word guerilla soldiers on purpose since it sounded like gorilla, and he managed to avoid capture by doing his Tarzan yell and then the soldiers recognized him, were big fans, and escorted him safely back to the hotel. Great job, Erica! This concludes the Blast from the Past Password game. Thank you for playing, everyone! Erica, I will get your prize out to you. I will post my package from Amy when I get back on Wednesday.

Wow, Don, I loved the Loving quotes more than I've liked many of the ones you post. I love literature, theater, films--and Loving comes through on a wave length with which I identify.