Skipping all the game hints to link to a great cat pic for tommyrot! (I still think those hairless cats are damn ugly, though.)

Lee, how about rodeo and mad cow to start you out...

Only highlight if you really want to know direct answers, though. Of course.

I've tried sending this puzzle to a few friends and family members and not a single one of them took the bait.

Lee, the tie in one is stupidly literal. Some of the answers make you smack your forehead, I tell you what.

I think that this whole not having a kitchen thing is driving me slowly insane. Nine more days! I don't know if I'm going to make it!

In girly news, I tried a sample of this new Radiant Facial stuff and omigod. I am in love.

Lee, how about

I had the first, but not the second. YAY.

I think I need to step away now, in order to get anything at all done today.

The TSA site oh so helpfully crashes my browser. My opinion of it remains the same.

So is lipstick and chapstick off the instruments of terror list, or am I going to be suspected of trying the moisterize someone to death?

I was allowed chapstick! It just has to be a solid stick and not, like, a pot of something.

I'm convinced this is nothing more than an attempt to drive up revenues at the airport stores. I've been buying hand cream before each of my flights because I can't deal with the de-hydration issues. The whole thing sucks and I miss my old in-flight moisturizing routine.

ETA: This was as of last month. I don't know what, if anything, has changed.

Just stick the hand cream in a quart-sized ziploc, and you're good to go. I'm not sure about the chapstick, but I've successfully used meara's smuggling suggestion of just putting it in your pocket and walking through the metal detector. OK, I used it for a lighter, but the principle is the same. In your pocket and non-metal = good to go.

I'm convinced this is nothing more than an attempt to drive up revenues at the airport stores. I've been buying hand cream before each of my flights because I can't deal with the de-hydration issues. The whole thing sucks and I miss my old in-flight moisturizing routine.

No kidding. When all this first started, I declared it a profit conspiracy headed up by Aquafina. Now ziploc, chapstick and Vaseline are in on it! Jerks!

I have to buy more hand cream anyway, cause I left mine at work.

Lighter goes ok through the human metal detector? I had no idea.

Lighter goes ok through the human metal detector? I had no idea.

I will deny this if asked by any sort of law enforcement agency, but yes, the plastic lighter in my pocket went undetected by several metal detectors.