Advocate columnist Smiley Anders 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. He imagines this conversation: "'How and when do you know someone lives in southern Louisiana?' "'Good question. How?' "'They wear a sweater in summer.
' "'Oh.' "'The air conditioning is arctic.'" "When I read on Friday about the rats at LSUNO, I almost fell out of my chair!," says David Muller, of Folsom.
(The story was about white rats that escaped from a lab and terrorized parents and children in a clinic waiting room.) "I grabbed the phone and called my wife, visiting in New Orleans. I told her she was written up in the morning paper — however, not by name, just by what happened.
We both had a good laugh! "She Susan Wiegan, and she 'ran' the rats and fed them daily. She was a psychology major working her way through LSUNO. "The weekend after her graduation we were married, on June 7, 1969; 55 years ago.
" May Waggoner says, "I can't believe that with all the talk about 'thingamajigs' and 'doolollies,' no one has lauded the French ability to use , just the right word to describe something. "The word? (thingamajig). "If you want to get more complicated, say ' ' (thingamajig whatchamacallit).
"Très simple, n'est-ce pas?" Missy Molett Guillot, of Lafayette, says widespread mishearing of Creedence Clearwater Revival's lyrics, "bad moon on the rise" as "bathroom on the right" led to a float by .