Ack! I know it’s Crane! :eek:
One wealthy canine
Daphne Moon
The Virgin Marla
2000
Um… 7 years ago?
bookstores
Tweeet! That’s four words! 
Bookstores: Love to visit.
The NYT Bestsellers List.
Oprah is gatekeeper.
Samurai.
Japanese sword wielder.
A battleship.
The Battle of New Orleans
Long time ago
War of Jenkin’s Ear
Pretty silly conflict.
The 1969 “Soccer War” of El Salvador and Honduras: Football War - Wikipedia
Rioting gone international
Next word: Bourbon
SSG Schwartz
Big Easy street OR
mainly Southern tipple
Hogmanay
Auld Year’s Night.
Novelty eyeglasses in which the lenses substitute for zeroes in such dates as 2008
Very ephemeral products
Rick Prelinger
Industrial film collector.
Dr. Kevorkian
Didn’t he die?
“Dead pools” among family, friends or coworkers.
Did he? dunno!
Real life tontines. :eek:
Resolutions
Usually broken fast
or
Annual wishful thinking
An IT department that sneaks around on in the middle of the holidays without any warning and “upgrades” your computer.
Resolutions:
Easily made, forgotten
(or)
Pointless annual ritual.
(Wiki says Dr. Kevorkian is, in fact, still alive. Born in 1928, so he turns 80 this year. Thought I’d read about his death a few months back. Guess I was wrong!)
Next phrase: An IT department that sneaks around on in the middle of the holidays without any warning and “upgrades” your computer.
Stealth computer nerds
water coming through my furnace, cascading over wires (repair man coming at 4pm)
Big bill coming.
William Howard Taft