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Malone, Wee Free was a very good one.
I have not heard of Criterion.
I had "benchmark" stuck in my head for a while!

Isn't there a splinter group called the "Wee-wee frees"? (Seriously!)

Chris, see post 6357!

Missed it, rusty!

I did once know a Catholic ex-monk who married a lady who was a Wee Free. Probably not made in Heaven.....

Hello, Elle,
Update on sport.
Lindsey Vonn crashed out of the Super-G.
She was carried off the slope on a sled and apparently has a hairline fracture of her knee....but is threatening to race tomorrow, if she is able! These Yanks are tough cookies!
Federica Brignone won the race.
Victoria was point to pointing somewhere and Lawney Hill was very pleased with her. She is in another point to point tomorrow.
Hope The Voice is going well!

Hi, Rusty!
I really enjoyed "The Voice"!
I am not usually an advocate of talent shows but this has to be one of my favourite programmes to watch on TV.
The talent is amazing and, as I've said before, the rapport between the judges makes it very good viewing.
I'm recording "Casualty" to watch another time.
I'm not well- informed about sports injuries, but won't Lindsey risk further damage to her knee if she tries to compete tomorrow?
Going off how quickly an athlete pulls out if he/she runs a risk of further damage , it makes me wonder how wise Lindsey is being if she goes ahead with tomorrow's race?
And speaking of tomorrow.......any plans?
P.S. The coffee machine is functioning again!

Hello, Elle!
Lindsey has had a lot of knee injuries.
I can't see her racing tomorrow.
It won't help her knee heal, that's for sure.
None of the top racers were in the first three today.
Laurenne Ross was second, and Tamara Tippler was third.
Conditions were bad. Heavy snow and very windy.
Your husband fixed the coffee machine?
Well done that man!
I've been pondering.
"All the King's horses and all the King's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again,"
Just how did the horses go about trying to put poor Humpty back in one piece? The men, yes, I can understand that, but the horses?

Hey, Rusty!
Whatever put Humpty Dumpty into your head?
However, your question about the horses' participation stimulated my interest.......and so I've been looking up the story behind "Humpty Dumpty".
And seemingly...nowhere does it say (apart from illustrations in "Alice Through the Looking Glass" ) that Humpty was an egg!
Humpty Dumpty was apparently a cannon used by the Royalists during the English Civil War!
The cannon was blown off the walls during a battle and, as it was so large, it was impossible for it to be recovered by both the men and the horses!
The horses presumably being needed in the attempt to retrieve the cannon?
It makes sense now, doesn't it?

I am slightly worried about you, rusty! Do you often think about nursery rhymes?
But you have a very good point. I understand that the pome (deliberate!) was originally a riddle, and the horses represent force, or power. We think of HD as an egg because that's how he's portrayed but what if we had never seen an illustration?

I used to be confused about vinegar and brown paper , but apparently brown paper was thick and absorbent in the days that nursery thyme was written and vinegar good for cleaning wounds as water could be contaminated and vinegar not- and probably killed quite a lot of bacteria.

Me, I'm all for Wee Willie Winkie! My book on the Glasgow Necropolis says he died poor and ill. Like most, I guess, in 1872.