Your parents were kinder than the parents of those children.

One of the better jokes of Mark Russell was the Republican quilt. "White! Ivory! Bone!"

"They broke the president!" — random Bozo

Give me Boris Karloff any day.

Carbon monoxide poisoning can cause hallucinations.

Newton did work with mercury. Perhaps his depression had a physical origin.

TELL LAURA I LOVE HER!

I hope they do the whole miniseries, rather than the abbreviated version.

Yes. It may be noticed more often, rather than happening more often.

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. . . explosive especially for their makers.

My Dear Friend never read this: only _Matzoball_ and _Loxfinger_. He admiringly describes the line where the author's daughter takes revenge: "Batbaby strikes again!"

And she acts! I wanted to like "Labyrinth," but the one human character in it seemed wooden, intoning her lines. Here she seemed lively, humorous, and sympathetic.

I saw the 30's version of "King Solomon's Mines" at a con. Great action, but definitely too much the Great British Empire. I flashed to what they were doing in Kenya . . .

Yes, Eddie.

The Indiana Jones series has breathless action, but also sadism. I don't mind the Bettie Page overtones, as they have a winking gentleness: but Indie's screaming girlfriends always make me uncomfortable.

Some of the corruption comes from interlopers. The cause of the American Revolution was your mama on a date.

Usagi Yojimbo or nothing.

Shut up and listen.

That may not be so good.