9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for August 19, 2010

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Juliette says, "You are Peter Kiesl?" Kiesl says, "So the Austrian post informs me." Juliette says, "Then who is this?" Kiesl says, "Johann Martin Keisl, a minor industrialist." Kiesl says, "I received a telephone call from his family telling me that the newspaper buried me in this grave last week, via a misspelling... and they asked if I would be so good as to exhume myself at my ver earliest convenience. I called the obituary department at the Nachrichten, informed them that they are idiots, and came here to pay my final respects to myself... but not before the New York Times buried me again. ...This is a very crowded grave."