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A.Word.A.Day--Simple Simon Simple Simon (SIM-puhl SYM-uhn) noun A simpleton. [After Simple Simon, a character in a nursery rhyme.] "Johnny is no Simple Simon either. `You don't expect me to enlist without knowing what it's about, do you?' he asks his sweetheart, Minny Belle ...." Dan Sullivan, Make Toys, Not War, Sings `Johnny', The Los Angeles Times, Jul 13, 1986. This week's theme: eponyms. X-Bonus Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. -Boudewijn I, King of Belgium (1934-1993)

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