Accidental Wordplay Dept.: My former boss wrote to me the other day. He wanted me to look at a game invented by an associate of his, a professor at “Brandies” University.

I think if I was going to open up a bartending school, I would definitely call it Brandies and open it up near Boston. This way, when I wrote to people and told them what I did — “professor at Brandies” — they would think I was very smart but simply made a typo.