“Indy” is Indianapolis; “The Race” is the Indianapolis 500, and the answer to “There’s more than ____ in Indiana” is “corn”.

I see you haven’t been to Lafayette much. ;)

Bloomington is good. The Lafayette area, home to Purdue, is the absolute worst Big Ten town.

Isn’t that the pitch accent rather than tonality?

Expensive? $9 a month without insurance for me.

No. The car isn’t yours at the end of the 24 months so you can’t sell it.

Wow! My million-dollar umbrella policy (it covers a lot more than just car-related stuff) is nowhere near $2k per year.

Yes, very much so. We did as close to “natural” as you can do in a hospital, but still in one. No epidural, 24 hours of (agonizing) labor. The OB-GYN called for a C-section, and as the OR was being prepped, the stars (and anatomy) aligned, and in a few minutes we were parents.

That’s not necessarily disqualifying if you have good neighbors. I installed my air conditioning central unit less than the required setback from a neighbor’s house - the city posted a “call for public comments”, nobody said anything negative (including my neighbor), so there it is. I don’t know anything about your…

Surprisingly, I found out that mine does! The coop has to be at least fifty feet from the property line, but that’s not a problem for me.

This is good advice. Indeed, such decisions are almost never made by the reporter, but by an editor. The editor has probably never seen the story before and has no clue what parts are important.

Nixon would have used ketchup.

Is the National Aquarium still in Baltimore? If so, that’s worth a visit if you’re into aquariums.

Oh, I wish. In many states, if you have a mortgage on your house, there is no protection at all. In the state where I live, none of your home’s value is protected at all - all your equity will be gone.

House and car are usually only protected up to a very small amount - in my state, $60k for house, $4k (I think) for car. I don’t think there are very many states that totally protect either of these (IIRC, TX and FL do).

Did he settle (the headline says so) or was he awarded the money (the story says so). As a former headline writer, my bet is on the headline being wrong.

YMMV indeed - all the Wal Marts near my house have terrible produce sections.

I work for a place where I get more-or-less unlimited time off. Sure, my manager has to approve it, but here, at least, there’s rarely a problem taking the days I want. My wife is a teacher and we live in a snowy, northern state, so we try to go someplace warm for spring break - last year we went to Hawaii, and when…

There’s a stereotypical response that dogs have to trees.....they pee on them. Are you saying.....?!?

I recommend “odds bodkins!” instead. You’re welcome.