City Council passed a bill that required tour guides in Philadelphia to pass a history test and register with the city to do their job. The move came after many citizens and newspaper columnists noticed that some of the guides were feeding their paying customers fiction, and passing it off as fact.

What we're hearing is that there're bunches of old-school regulars unhappy with the food. How anyone can fuck up burgers and cheesecake is beyond me.

The working strategy was to retain the News' tabloid format and the Inquirer's more muted editorial style and international focus, although the latter tended now to concentrate upon popular Australian sports such cricket, beach cricket and dwarf-tossing.

Two hours might be just enough to explain the rules of my own personal favorite, "Scrabblegories," which is of course Scrabble and Scattergories played simultaneously.