Yo, dawg, I heard you need to soak up some blood, so I put some cotton in your cotton so it can absorb it while it absorbs it.

If folks would just use the stance I taught them for limbing, they won't need a deep-wound dressing.

And, whatever happened to the gentlemanly (or even gentlewomanly) habit of carrying a handkerchief? The inner fabric of a folded white cotton handkerchief is generally clean enough for use in stanching an open wound in an emergency.

Cool, but odd, to an outdoorsperson. I was really disappointed to learn that American naturalist John Burroughs traveled with this crowd, and he didn't rough it when camping with them. (Their excursions were outfitted like a modern safari.)

They're not just words, IT'S A WAY OF LIFE!

As they say at Toyota, "ポカヨケ!"

Probably one of the few symbols that I haven't seen tattooed on someone, though you may start a trend.

Get off my wharf! (Er, lawn!)

And more violent ones, too.

Solve your indoor cooking pollution problems by going outside and aiming this thing through a window at your steaks.

That's awesome.

I am awed by your comment.

Indoor combustion, when not vented completely to the outdoors, is always a bad thing. Indoor fireplaces and woodstoves are even worse polluters than gas stoves. If I end up in a shared cabin with folks who insist on maintaining a wasteful roaring woodstove fire overnight, I'll take the tent I've packed and sleep…

Now it looks like it fell off a truck, but that's how we get such great deals in the Big Apple.

Thanks for the great analysis—I'll enjoy the remaining games all the more because of it!

Great post. Boxing is no longer held in the classic Hayes Gym? I went there some years ago for the bouts, and it was fantastic to be in that atmosphere. Some kids knew how to box, and that night we saw the cadet who would go on to win the championship among the service academies. Some contenders were just plain…

Or an edumication major, I bet.

...and, lo, did the caller get all medieval.

She did start to get all medieval.

Let me be more specific: There are enough reasons for us to learn self-control without the kind of data abuse that seems to be revealed from time to time. I'm all for conservation, even (and perhaps especially) if that means fewer iPads, wide-screen TVs, and gas guzzlers. Just don't go about it by acting as if the end…