WHY do people get perms? A woman in my building has a new one and it's the classic bad-perm look. Are perms now being done by anyone in a way that's attractive?

Bah.

I might be out $2,740.00 for three to four weeks.

Sue! Sue!

I mean, they do owe you interest on that money. It's making someone some interest, and that someone is not you.

Um, you might want to call your friendly neighborhood regulator and see if that is legal. Because while it took my brother a bit to straighten out the tangles of the over-half-a-million overdraft, they'd reversed the initial screw up in a couple days.

I could not be out that much money, tommyrot-- that is ridiculous.

WRT perms, I think it is part of becoming attached to what was fashionable when you were a certain age, and not letting go. Although sometimes I wonder what people are thinking when they look in the mirror. When I was in high school, one of my very favorite teachers, who was part Native American, got blonde "frost and tip" highlights on her black hair. As you can imagine this looked horrible. I sort of said nothing, because I assumed she was aware of the badness (not that I could have told her it was bad, but I didn't say it looked nice either). And then she did the same the next year, for summer. Oh-- it was bad.

Well, Comcast says that they have to wait for the dispute of the charge to come from Visa, and that this normally takes 3 to 4 weeks. They're gonna try to put a rush on it, so it might only take 10-14 days.

I could not be out that much money, tommyrot-- that is ridiculous.

Yeah. I only get paid once a month, so I'll be broke for the next three weeks.

tommyrot, that totally sucks. I agree that you should sue Comcast seven ways from Sunday.

I thought you were advocating not wearing underwear, either! That's a little too... slutty? forward?

If he discovers that you’re not wearing underwear, it’s too late.

I think I will go with: nice black pants and rather low-cut, clingy mauve top.

That says: I’ll make out with you on the couch, but I’m not staying. Very good.

Woah:

Mummified body found in front of TV

CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) -- The mummified body of a woman who didn't want to be buried was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death, authorities said.

Johannas Pope had told her live-in caregiver that she didn't want to be buried and planned on returning after she died, Hamilton County Coroner O'Dell Owens said Monday.

Pope died in August 2003 at age 61. Her body was found last week in the upstairs of her home on a quiet street.

Some family members continued to live downstairs, authorities said. No one answered the doorbell at Pope's home Monday afternoon.

It could take weeks to determine Pope's cause of death because little organ tissue was available for testing, Owens said.

An air conditioner had been left running upstairs, and that allowed the body to slowly mummify, he said. The machine apparently stopped working about a month ago, and the body began to smell.