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1. 3 days ago on Broom Hilda

   Or live in a satellite orbiting the Earth.

2. 5 days ago on Broom Hilda

   In New Jersey we have a number of medical servicing places—hosptals, urgent-care facilities, etc.—named “Virtua.” I sometimes wonder if they dispense imaginary medicine.

3. 5 days ago on Overboard

   That’s modern multi-species technology for you!

4. 5 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   This method worked pretty well for “Murder, She Wrote” and “Perry Mason,” but “Ironside” was creative enough with its plots that you can’t count on it. (We’ve gone through “M,SW” about three times, and “PM” once, and are nearly halfway through “IS” as of last night.)

5. 7 days ago on JumpStart

   Or rather a “Doctor”.

6. 7 days ago on JumpStart

   But he IS a doctor, after all!

7. 7 days ago on Overboard

   Ha! Another wall-breaker! But I can’t figure what number it is…

8. 13 days ago on Broom Hilda

   From my database of 950 (currently) .sigs:Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give him a hand grenade, and he clears out the whole pond. —Joe SaccoGive a man a fish…Teach a man to fish, and he’ll spend his weekends drinking beer in a boat.Give a man a fish…Give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish.Give a man a fish…Teach a man to fish and he will disrupt the predator/prey balance of the Earth’s ecosystem and threaten the planet.Give a man a fish…Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless there are no fish. —Maimonides, Al Franken

9. 13 days ago on Lio

   It worked OK for me. BTW, I didn’t get the instructions allowing you to turn a blank paper into a $1 bill, THEN the $1 into a 5, and that into a ten. The one I bought didn’t have enough roll room to do that, I think, but it’s a great idea.

10. 23 days ago on One Big Happy

    When this happens, just do what you do when the level of beer in your glass is low: put a head on it!