And will cause real change.

Unexpectedly, at home is even clearer code for suicide. As is a request for donations in the deceased’s memory to charities concerned with mental health or addiction issues.

Inspired air reaches thermal equilibrium with the body pretty quickly.

Nothing good.

True, but the temperature in your lungs is more or less constant.

Yes, we know.

Clearly an issue for the vice squad.

Old. Perhaps matured is a better choice of nomenclature. Yes, that’s it. Matured. Matured to perfection.

Expensive colourful urine is a good way of status-signalling, so you’re ahead regardless.

Stealers Wheel was popular with me and my friends in high school, and that was well before Reservoir Dogs was so much as a gleam in Tarrantino’s eye. But then, I’m old.

+1 for your username.

Yes, you can question them all you like, but the guilty one will never own up.

True. They always lead off with a kick to the balls, as I recall.

Hey, it’s Nature’s Way.

No, you did.

It’s a Robert Heinlein sort of thing. Goes along with a detailed knowledge of avoirdupois and hour-by-hour updates on the current gold fix.

Clio’s a woman’s name. And I believe that the author’s an American.

And Adonis chromosomes.

Not only that, apparently velvet ants apparently have terrifically painful stings. Even more misery.

That’s why we send them south.