Not Alison, but

I truly could never understand this question at all. It shocked me every time. I mean, what are you talking about? I always drew, and so did every other child I ever saw or heard of. I just didn’t stop, that’s all.

Lots of people know that the words who, what, when, where, why, and how are “question words” that introduce (obviously) questions.

But that’s not the only way they can be used. Not everything that starts with one of these words needs a question mark at the end.

Questions:

How do I get to Sesame Street?

Where do red ferns grow?

Why Do Fools Fall in Love?

When did the boy stop playing with the piglet?

Not Questions:

How to Get to Sesame Street

Where the Red Fern Grows

Why Fools Fall in Love

When it became a bore.

I used caps for most of the second group because they’re so often going to be titles, headings, and subheadings.

I didn’t know this. Our cultural ideas of regular behavior aren’t always so appropriate.

Helpfully, the sign doesn’t just tell you what not to do, it gives you easy alternatives.

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You’ll hear it called “the greatest Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made,” which sounds about right except it isn’t really fair to the actual director, Stanley Donen.

I love the theme music by Henry Mancini and find myself clicking it out with my tongue probably once a week or more (TOK-tok-tok t’tok-tok-t’tok-tok).

Audrey Hepburn is a delight as always. Cary Grant is wonderful as usual (even if he needs to be twenty/thirty years younger for this role).

Mystery, suspense, humor, one-liners, danger, lies, double-crosses, a missing fortune, Hepburn playing a character stretched and strained until she doesn’t know which end is up, and naturally that infectious theme: it gets almost everything right.