Smiley Anders

A “language barrier” story from Gwen Briggs, of Abita Springs:

Dear Smiley: One to add to your list of malapropisms and spoonerisms:

Our overseas football correspondent, Bill Huey, of Baton Rouge, says Advocate sports writer Scott Rabalais “reports that Coach Brian Kelly is working on LSU playing a football game in Ireland,

“The recent article about mice reminded me of an incident when I was a student worker in the old LSUNO library in the early 1960s,” says Collin B. Hamer Jr.

Want to feel old?

Our stories of strong women remind me of an alligator cooking contest in Franklin that I judged in the early days of this column.

“The article about buildings at LSUNO (now UNO) in the ’60s reminds me of an incident,” says Don Pekarek, of Slidell.

Dear Smiley: I have a possible answer for Morgan Landry, who asked in Tuesday’s column why his grandfather was in the outhouse he was using for target practice, when “You

Our unpaid British correspondent, Martin Hugh-Jones, of Baton Rouge, says our climate (and the way it’s dealt with) differs from that of his home isle.

“I’m afraid I’m revealing my age,” says ‘CJD,’ of Lafayette.