The Hilarious Duo Yin and Yang

On this date in 1868 a machine for writing was patented. It was called a "Type-Writer." I always thought of it as the instrument of the devil. My father was a writer, so the damned contraption was as much a fixture in our house as the refrigerator. When my older brother was about six he asked my grandmother for ice cream money. She felt it was a good time to teach him a life lesson, and suggested he should work to earn his treat. "I can't," he said, "daddy won't let me use the typewriter."