Good thing you weren't looking for a dreedle. No telling where she would have sent you.

As mentioned the last time you brought up Menorahs, you're just going to have to go to the Synagogue store.

Several years back my sister was living in a small town in Texas that just got their first Kroger. In Houston, the Kroger's would give "turkey bucks" with every purchase over some qualifying amount. My sister approached the check out and asked the cashier if they had turkey bucks. The cashier got a strange look on her face and then said something like, "Did you check the meat department? I will call back there and see if they have turkey butts."

Quite a few years ago, after my baby brother was born, we tried to find a nipple in St. Pete Fl. The clerk looked shocked, then tottered over to a tall set of shelves to climb a wooden ladder on rollers. He finally handed us a dusty box with some ancient red-rubber nipples in it. "We don't have a lot of people looking for these," he said.

When we were teenagers we used to joke we were living in "the city of newly-wed and nearly dead". We'd laugh at the fact that it wasn't that unusual when a bus came by to pick up passengers waiting on one of the famous green benches, that some would never get up.

Somehow now that I'm old this doesn't seem funny anymore.

As a 4 mug a day coffee addict, a carafe IS a religious item for me.

Which one of those was the big moth looking monster with the ray gun eyes?

I'm pretty sure that Broghan is that lizard thing that lives under the nuclear waste dump in Oak ridge but what does Carafe look like and what are his/her powers?

If a junkie such as I goes into the evening hours without a hit from Carafe he soon discovers just how powerful a beast he is.

A couple of weeks ago I began mixing 5 parts regular to 1 part decaf. Now I'm up to half and half. Next week it will be 4 parts decaf, 2 parts regular. Soon I will be free, do you hear me, free!

Well, of that habit anyway.

Wearybottom Associates

I just got back from lighting the ice menorah on campus. The nice thing about Ithaca is that you can build an ice menorah in December, and it won't melt until sometime in March!