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Jack Viertel's avatar

Jonathan Green's definition of a "one arm joint" is not entirely correct. A real one arm joint had chairs with chairs with one arm for solitary diners who would otherwise eat standing. It's the design of the chairs (which you can see if you look them up as images) that created the name, which then came to be used for any cheap diner.

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Re: #48: Hooker Auditorium at Amherst College is adjacent to Clapp Laboratory (albeit with a double “p,” but still funny). AND…I just learned yesterday that Charles Dickens was the first to say “Never say never.” I have no idea if that’s true — I need to look into that — but you never know!

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