The Second Email We Sent Today

Good morning! The first email we sent out today was the HMM WEEKLY PREMIUM NEWSLETTER, now distributed strictly to the members, supporters, and patrons of Hmm Daily. If you're getting this, and if we configured our email account settings right, you are on the Hmm Daily mailing list but not among our members, supporters, or patrons. We're glad to correspond with you regardless, but if you'd like to read the full HMM WEEKLY PREMIUM NEWSLETTER, please join our paying community. Thank you for your interest!

Hmm Weekly readers are now up to No. 7 in our series of 19 Folktales, "The Frog and the Beetle."

Although we have reserved our newly written newsletter content for HMM WEEKLY, we present here for your diversion a joke from The Toaster's Handbook compiled by Peggy Edmund and Harold Workman Williams, third edition published 1921 by the H.W. Wilson Company, and now in the public domain:

APPEARANCES
"How fat and well your little boy looks."
"Ah, you should never judge from appearances. He's got a gumboil on one side of his face and he has been stung by a wasp on the other."
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LAST WEEK ON HMM DAILY

• I Don’t Understand How Big the Giant Bee Is Supposed to Be
• It’s a Bad Day to Be Kraft
• Ross Lowell, 1926-2019
• Outer Limits
• Don Giovanni’s Proper Ending Is in Hell
• Open Up the Libel Laws and See What Crawls Out
• The Right Number of Gun Mistakes for the Police to Make Is Zero
• Public Service Announcement: Don’t Walk on the Yellow Line
• A Windowpane Opened on a Void
• Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019

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