..and I'd have to be "just agreein'" with you.

Yeah. When I was a kid, the lifetime probability of developing cancer (any site) for men was 1 in 4. It's now 1 in 2. Some of that I'm sure is detection advances, but it also might be a good indication that we're "doing something wrong" with the way we live. (What that might be, I'm not willing to speculate.)

Ah! The old round n' round with sinusoidal action! Guaranteed to stimulate all orifices all the time for maximum flow, or your money back!

Biting, yes. Meat eaters. Have you ever seen a pre-beetle form lady bug (any variety) find a cache of aphids on a plant? Oh, the carnage. The Carnage!

The banana figured it out long ago. Those little black spots in the flesh? Non-viable seeds. It figured out that if you provide some other value, like delicious fruit or being a state insect, there's this thing that happens to help you survive and you don't even have to waste energy on seeds/surviving. In the…

Ah, well. Then we're in agreement! Excellent.

Which thing? Stray voltage in the ground, going organic saving 10K/month or me being a cheese head? Depending on your viewpoint, they are all frivolous, or not.

Yup. Cheese head, originally.

Just going for clarification, here. You state that food workers carry the bacteria and then they handle food as the vector for infection.

Takes a little bit to get used to *handling* them, doesn't it? We do that, too. Our culture doesn't prepare us for it, usually.

Well, maybe one living woman could. Otherwise, point taken.

Hoist by my own petard! Curses.

It does come down to an intelligence test at the end, doesn't it? Not many people would/could pick the incorrect answer.

Normally, most of us look at human resources as a bunch of well dressed, smiling, slightly (or more) "pimp" behaving people who's sole focus is to enforce the corporate agenda. (That's a generalization, only.)

Reminded of an old story from the 70's or early 80's where IBM decided to filter all "bad" words with input filters from the user's terminal to the mainframe. Being IBM and an international player, they needed to find all the "bad" words in every language to build their library.

"No, no.. *I* smell. The moon *stinks*."

Caption: "Full Blown Batshit Crazy, and Holding Down a Productive Job."

And in case anyone has missed it, Weebl and Bob are also an enjoyable minute or so. Where Pie is superior to cake.

Yeah. We got the order from BofA and appraised it at $1.2M. Markets are really down, and the appeal is off since people keep shooting at it.

I remember hearing about a study (and I only repeat it here because it rang true to me at the time and correlated with my own observations/experience) that showed a human reacts to threatening news as if they were in a group that was 150 people or less. In other words, if a murder happens in a multi-million person…