Thanks for the shout out! It seems such an obvious sub, why didn't we think of it? I blame Merry :) Good stuff lifeliver. I enjoyed reading this :)

Not fond of OS and never done it, but agree with Peregrin on his shame for *them* not finding it. ;-D
    Alas. most in US today won't have any idea whom this is about. Isn't AIR-har(d)t sometimes? 555, and you have this title-switch thing nailed.

Any of you culture mavens ever come up with "Ophelia"?

Ophelia,
You're breakin' Ham's heart
You're makin' him think suicid'lly ,,,,,

Great title, great lines, great job. Glad we were able to inspire you.

Mr. Shellspeare - cool idea, we will leave you to it. We wrote about Ham once, but it was a different Ham. :)

Glad you liked it, M&P. If not for you ... @Mr Shellspeare: Tommy, is that you? Thanks also for not pointing out the last verse is CRAP. It was going pretty well, but I fell in a heap rhyming 'laughing'. That phonetic is always a problem because of US vs UK pron. so I usually avoid it. Also, 'chaffing' is a malapropism. The word should be 'chafing' or 'champing' as in 'at the bit'. Later I hit upon the solution: 'Searched the sea floor photographing' ... Too late now. A good lesson here - leave your creation for a day or two and come back to it for a fresh look before posting.

@Tommy Turtle In fact, Amelia's been in the news a bit recently, with new data emerging about her fate. They believe they've identified the atoll she was stranded on and are now searching the sea floor adjacent the nearby reef for her plane, which was probably landed safely. It's quite a story, you can wiki it. It seems the probable nature of her death was horrific, starved and dehydrated and eaten alive by crabs when she had no more strength to resist. There's even a video on YouTube which takes you on an aerial tour of the atoll. Fascinating. On a less morbid note, while on this topic I can't help highly recommending the song 'Amelia' by one of the 20th century's greatest lyricists, the mercurial Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, in which she compares Earhart's destiny in 'icy altitudes' to her own state of mind. There's a wonderful version on her DVD 'Shadows and Light' (1978) which segues in to a sublimely ethereal Pat Metheny guitar solo. The concert is also famous for excellent footage of legendary, ill-fated electric bassist Jaco Pastorius. You can Y-tube it. One of my most precious musical moments.

OMG! Another person who treads this earth who knows that the term is 'chAmping at the bit' and not 'chOmping'. You have made my day, LL.

@Peregrin Cheers O fellow literate one. It's kinda like tenderhooks vs tenterhooks, I see that one a lot.

"Foul swoop" instead of "Fell swoop"

"Momento" instead of "Memento"

"Titbits" instead of "Tidbits"

The list is unending. There has to be a parody in here somewhere!