Not that I’m surprised, but you and the readers seem to be able to come up with the answer to just about anything so far.

I think I read it in Reader’s Digest years ago (my parents used to get it) and have also tried Yahooing and Googling, et cetera. It is basically a poem supposedly written by a child; it starts something like, “When I die, wrap me in a paper towel with flowers on the edge and put me in a cigar box…” Then more description along the lines of “put in some daisies, have a funeral with Jennifer and Laurie and have Megan say the prayer and bury me under the maple tree at the bottom of the back yard.” The ending says something along the lines of “because that’s what we did when my hamster died and I want the same thing.”

Obviously, this is a pretty vague description…I’m sure those aren’t the right names, for example, but I wonder if this rings any bells (no pun intended) with anyone?

Thanks,
Another morbid poem searcher (I’m sure it’s nothing to do with TN)

This might be one for the readers. I like to wear long-sleeved knit
tops — V-neck, crewneck, whatever’s comfortable — but after a couple of
washings, inevitably, the torsos and sleeves shrink so that I’m
constantly tucking them in and either pulling the sleeves to stretch
them or shoving them up to my elbows in resigned irritation. The
culprit is most likely my husband’s habit of drying everything on
full heat and baking all the moisture out of things, but since
laundry is the one household chore he covers cheerfully and
consistently, I’m not willing to complain about it. Buying a larger
size would simply showcase my utter lack of bust. The tuck-in I can
live with, but the creeping sleeves drive me batty both for the naked
wrists and the uncomfortably-tight armpits.

Do long-torso shirts automatically come with longer sleeves too? The
“extra-long sleeves” cropping up in the fashion industry strike me as
odd-looking; I don’t want to end up with Meredith Grey-like sleeves
down to my fingertips, but this Lurch-meets-Frankenstein thing has
got to go.

Sign me,
Stop Staring At My Cheap Watch

I’m wondering if you, or your readers, can help me with a music recommendation.
I’ve checked out liveplasma.com (a.k.a. musicplasma.com), the site that
recommends artists you might like based on what artist you search for.
It’s been very helpful in general, but not for this particular
question.

I recently picked up the “Money for Nothing” album by Dire Straits, and
fell in love with the eponymous track. We’re talking head-over-heels,
get-up-and-dance-around-madly-like-an-iPod-commercial love. Especially
the…interesting, hard-to-describe way the guitarist plays
throughout.

Problem is, the rest of the songs on the album are in a completely
different style. I like them, but they’re not as special. So, do you
have recommendations based on this song, especially on the guitar
part?

Thanks in advance,
This Is The Song That Contains The Very Random Lines, “We Got To
Install Microwave Ovens/Custom Kitchen Deliveries”