Wellington Leg: The forty third earl, Wellington Leg’s foremost authority on writing underwater, achieved neutral buoyancy during a mud puddle incident near the Historic Rotunda. Students from the nearby Famous Writers School rushed to the scene utilizing their cellular telephones to capture the moment for posterity.
“He was neither rising nor falling while traversing the mud puddle,” Professor Moriarity said. “Our first Wellonaut may be ready for deep space.”
However claims that he was speaking with Lord Byron before entering the puddle may prevent the earl from entering the Wellonaut Program. Rivals from Goth, a towne with a space program more advanced than the Leg, remained skeptical. “Lord Byron? I see him all the time,” said Gothonaut Boris. “Call me when he sees Rilke,” Boris added. “Or Turgenev.”
The Doctor Pepper Syndrome: the puddle evaporated before CSI Caruso arrived thus denying Science a golden opportunity. “We found the remains of a forty ounce Doctor Pepper,” Caruso said, adding, “Not in my town.”
Paramedics Schiller and Goethe arrived on the scene. After reading a few pages of the earl’s most recent work, they rushed him to the Famous Writers School where dangling modifiers were quickly removed from the damp pages.
Wellington Leg launched a bottle rocket into geosynchronous orbit three weeks ago. “We have space race,” Boris said. Goth launched a stack washer dryer into orbit early last year. “Now we have laundry,” Boris crowed. “Pretty soon we have condo.”