I’ve not heard this before, and I grew up and still live less than100 miles from Winfield. Can you provide a cite?
Mary Ann, yes. But not Dorothy.
Right, just KS for Dorothy. My bad. 
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans (minor league baseball team) has a “bat dog”. The dog will take a dropped bat from near home plate to a designated area. Although this video is from 2021, the dog it still in action. Bat dog Slider retrieves bats | 08/14/2021 | Pelicans
They should have named him Ace!
Didn’t Idaho State have a dog that would run onto the field to retrieve the kicking tee at football games? I know some college team did.
Idaho State had Bristol, the tee-fetching pooch. US Davis also had a tee retriever named Pint:
I could have sworn the New Orleans Saints had a dog fetching tees at one point circa 2000. Can’t find video of “Fetch Monster”, though. Maybe it was only during preseason.
I just posted about seeing a Lotus Esprit in the “interesting car” thread. In looking up stuff about it found out:
A shell of one was used as the submersible car in The Spy Who Loved Me.
The car was in a storage locker for long time and when the lease expired someone bought the locker for $100.
It was later sold for over a half million pounds …
to Elon Musk who has stated he wants to make it a real submersible car based on Tesla electronics.
But that was many years ago now.
Used one for years, but lost it somewhere in one of many moves. Do still have a handy, trusty Fluke 77 that gets used a lot.
There needs to be a sport where each team, in addition to the players, has two dogs and a tennis ball thrower on the sideline who tries to put the dogs on the field in such a way that they cause difficulties for the opposing team that is trying to avoid tripping over them.
There was an article in a British newspaper about 30 years ago when new varieties of “instant” cricket were being innovated (shorter games, more scoring) where a columnist predicted that in two more generations of shortening attention spans would lead to cricket where leashed wolverines would be put onto the field in specific areas so that the fielding side would need to judge whether they could wander into that wolverine’s area and retrieve the ball or allow the batters to keep scoring.
It was satire, and fortunately the long form of the game has retained quite a following at least at the international level.
It’s driving me bonkers that I can’t find the article. I read it on Usenet c1994. I thought it was the Guardian or Telegraph, but my Google-fu is failing me.
More scoring? Don’t cricket matches often have scores in the hundreds of runs? I can’t think of a sport with higher scores than cricket.
You haven’t seen me playing golf!
Billiards? Eg:
In 1912, with Stevenson not participating, Inman and Reece played for the professional billiards title. Inman recorded a decisive 18,000–9,675 win over Reece in a match that The Sporting Life described as “the most spiritless affair ever witnessed on a billiard table” because it was so one-sided. Inman defeated Reece for the title again in 1913, 18,000–16,627; and in 1914, 18,000–12,826.
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As it happens, I already knew that from a QI clip about 2 weeks ago, and I got my random fact from one of the comments. How Do You Pronounce The Letter P In Greek? | QI - YouTube
Looking for information on what could be the next Nintendo console, I found out that there is a Nintendo European Research & Development, it is a subsidiary of Nintendo located in Paris, specialized in the field of highly optimized software technologies.
And yes, their acronym is NERD.
Today I learned about Public Universal Friend. A very interesting individual.
Wow! I live in Cumberland RI, my wife and kids are Quakers, and I can tolerate Quakers for a short time without getting stabby. We have a giant buried here, and a monastery with a howitzer on display, and our own mineral also.
Now you make me wonder whether it is a hard or a soft mineral, and whether it is called quakerite.
Relatively hard iron ore called Cumberlandite. The only source of it is a huge rock that emerged in the north end of town. Pieces of it traveled down to Narragansett Bay, and have been carried around the world because it was good ballast for ships. It was not a high quality iron ore though, not useful for making iron, which is probably why there is any left.
There was a mineral discovered in Cummington, Massachusetts. You can probably guess what it’s called.