Your mouth is contains some pretty nasty bugs that are effectively neutralized by your saliva and constant flushing whereas the root canal has opened your body in such a way there is no protection against normal mouth organisms.

I, too, am an only uncle/aunt (heh,heh zeroeth cousin once removed - siblings are zeroeth cousins who share a parent, 1st cousins share a grandparent etc.) - I learned that uncles/aunts are supposed to wind the kids up then hand them back to the parents to deal with. We do not have any responsibility but to have fun…

My kitty loves Greenies™ so we use them to reinforce habits we want. She also is quite the conservative and does not like doing anything the first time so we always practice for expected events + lots of Greenies™.

I guess it was too obvious; no one stated it out loud so I thought I ought to just in case.... It was almost sad when you realize in the real world chess game he was playing, Finch and Reese beat him and in his current 'closed world' there might not be anyone to - what? - compete with?

When we were in Buenos Aires , a 3-person team got a smart phone from a friend - right out of his front pocket. One guy appeared to vomit on my friend who stood up and another guy was in his pocket, got the phone passed it a 3rd person who was gone off the subway. My friend said that he knew almost immediately what…

I assumed that was what Finch traded to Elias - someone to play chess with. That was Elias' big complaint about being in the big house.

You just have not seen the right visual.

Who the effing hell runs after a woman into an otherwise empty elevator at 4:00 am in a hotel in a foreign country? And asks her to his room for a cup of coffee? I have about zero social skills but I would be thoughtful enough to stand outside the elevator and ask her to coffee in a public place - tomorrow. If you…

All that is true but what we did was play Karate. I performed katas, I learned moves, I practiced the moves and I played karate with opponents who were slightly better than I - it bored them but I learned more (and, since I 'studied' many different forms, I taught them somewhat).

In my youth, I use to 'play' karate; how else could you use karate but as play or in a real fight situation so I can see how the usage would work with tai chi

I drink tequila and tonic in the summer; I used to drink tonic water all the time until I switched to sparkling water which I now make myself.

I was going to go there but was pretty sure someone would have beat me to it - sure enough, thanks. You do know that Preacher is being made into a movie?

That is not how it works; the routine is to distract completely so you can't respond in time to the hand in your pocket.

When we were in Buenos Aires, a friend was using his smart-phone, put it in his front pocket when a drunk came by and was about to throw up on him as they approached a stop. He tried to avoid the vomit only to find that someone sitting next to him took the phone from his pocket, passed it to a woman who got off at the…

The judge needs to make sure that it is not a Bill of Attainder and to see if the prohibition against Bills of Attainder apply in the state as opposed to Federally. Not sure, as I have not looked at the judge's opinion

Basement kitty hides in plain sight.

I don't want to complain but your not knowing how to use a weapon is not the same as the weapon itself being worthless.

I do not know about women's clothing but there is a clothing company called Duluth that makes men's t-shirts 3-4 inches longer (they jokingly call it 'crack-spackle' - prevents plumber's crack). I tried their tees and that is all I wear now (I know I am a boring dresser but they are comfortable, come in about 15…

On the other hand - I spent my youth chasing ginger women but then I was an airhead and had a collection of locks from strawberry blond to carrot red. When I ran across the collection a couple years ago, I blushed and tossed it out. I am probably still an airhead, I still have a thing for gingers but I no longer…

"like the light from a dying cigar" there, did I fix it? Maybe I should not have gone there.