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1. about 21 hours ago on Luann

   OK, so their business model is to prowl on people who are insecure and give them a facade to hide behind. That always turns out well.

2. 2 days ago on Tank McNamara

   To paraphrase ‘The Incredibles’; “When everyone is on a pro football team, nobody will be on a pro football team.”

3. 2 days ago on Luann

   Sometimes life just happens. I wanted to be crowned “Rightful Ruler of the Universe” but, when that didn’t come together, I still managed to find gainful employment.

4. 3 days ago on Luann

   Why, oh why, does anyone “need a passion”? To “have a passion” implies that you are a monomaniac. It’s entirely acceptable to have a variety of interests about which you have strong feelings without being laser-focused on just one thing. I’d argue that someone with a single dominating passion might not be someone that you would want to spend a lot of time with.

5. 5 days ago on Luann

   Actually, a friend of my parents lost quite a bit of money in the stock market. He wrote a pamphlet on how to make money in the stock market and recovered all his losses.

6. 6 days ago on Crankshaft

   Do they still have bookmobiles? I shifted to e-books when I realized that I could downsize my bookshelves and save money in the process…

7. 8 days ago on Tank McNamara

   If your pitcher is throwing a no-hitter, just how much sweat are you supposed to raise?

8. 13 days ago on Luann

   For maybe 5 seconds, I met Jimmy Stewart in 1982 — it was at fleet landing in Naples, Italy, he was headed out to the USS Eisenhower and I was coming ashore at that moment. If Nancy was 10 that year, she would have been born in 1972, making her 52 today. That’s doable. And, of course, everyone knew who Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn were, even if they were born too late to see any of their movies in the theater. We had this device called television… that showed innumerable old movies late at night and on weekends. More to the point, that was the era of the MOVIE STAR. Today, we have actors, but their stature isn’t generally all that great — probably because they all get on social media to give us their far too often ill-formed opinions. Back then, you had stars built up by the studio system and relentless public relations machines — they had managers whose jobs it was to shield the public from the actor’s true personalities, so their reputations held on for a long, long time.

9. 18 days ago on Tank McNamara

   Followed by the Official Spitball Lube of Major League Baseball and the Offical Bat Cork of Major League Baseball.

10. 18 days ago on Luann

    When I was a college student, there was no way I could possibly have justified spending the inflation-adjusted comparable amount on something so trivial…keeping the car in gas, oil, and insurance was a feat in and of itself. In any case, I am who I am and certainly wasn’t going to go through contortions to fit in with people that I would never see again. Just treat people with respect and expect them to do likewise…