Highlights from family Christmas gathering

My dad: “These muffins are half blueberry, half poppyseed.”
My uncle: “What? The muffins are half hubris, half hypocrisy?”

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Most intriguing books in our guest house, as judged by their titles: “Beware The Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt” (Harvey Mackay); “Anything For Billy” (Larry McMurtry); “The Fist Of God” (Frederick Forsyth); “An Insular Possession” (Timothy Mo); “The Unmaking Of A Mayor” (William F. Buckley, Jr.); “The Parsifal Mosaic” (Robert Ludlum).