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I was having dinner out on Friday with OTTERBLOG Jr. and Wheel of Fortune was on the TV in the background. I rarely watch it, but it’s one of those programs that I find both incredibly lame and reasonably enjoyable, largely for the same reason: it’s so easy. I hadn’t seen the Wheel in a while but had been thinking about it because of our recent story on Winston-Salem being an answer in a recent puzzle.

Here’s our editorial page’s take on the whole thing, which I think is spot on.

So it was with a great deal of pleasure that I made my way through the Saturday crossword puzzle. One of the final clues was 51 ACROSS: One of its nicknames is “Camel City. The answer, of course, is Winston-Salem.

That is a good clue. It just about made my day. And in true understated crossword puzzle fashion, there was no press release or publicity agent calling us so we would write a story about it ... my karmic circle was complete.