In memory of two beloved folklorists —
"Iona Opie, a British folklorist who worked with her husband,
Peter, to produce major studies of nursery rhymes as well as
the oral traditions of games, jokes, nicknames, taunts and
pranks among schoolchildren, died on Oct. 23 in the town of
Petersfield, in Hampshire, England. She was 94."
— The New York Times this evening
Scholium on this journal's remarks of October 23 —
"Hello there, Dapper Dan, where were you when …."