Click sans Clack

Maybe Dear Abby and Tom can team up now: “Car Talk” co-host Tom Magliozzi won’t be writing his weekly newspaper column from the grave after all. The column’s syndicate initially said that both Tom’s and his brother Ray’s name would remain on the byline following Tom’s death on Nov. 3. But some newspaper editors complained about the appearance of using the late brother’s name.

Just guessing, but we think the ends of a lot of newspaper editors’ dipsticks are about to fall off.

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Make them an offer they can’t refuse: A New York City house featured in the 1972 mob classic, “The Godfather,” is up for sale for $2.89 million. The current owner has decorated the house to resemble the interior as shown in the movie.

Our advice if you tour the kitchen and they’ve left out treats: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

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Le meow: French police are continuing their search for a wild cat in the town of Montrevrain, but authorities have determined the cat is not, as was thought earlier, a tiger. It could be a lynx, once common in France but now very rare because of hunting.

There hasn’t been this much excitement and confusion over a feline in France since a black cat walked under a white paint brush and inflamed the passions of Pepe Le Pew.

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