but when that typo turns them into Christ, it could get sticky.

Uh oh.

sj, that's fabulous! I knew you'd gotten the apartment, but I didn't realize it was SO much cheaper. Also, check Craigslist for a portable dishwasher. They have them there for SO much cheaper than buying a new one...and often they're not that old.

Hi, all. Pulling myself out from the thesis to say hi! So, hi!

Also, what is with the difficult tutoring students this semester? I have one that's about to have a nervous breakdown and one that just outright lied to me. Feh on them all.

Fay, I'm pretty sure there needs to be a sitcom about teaching whiny kids in Bangkok and acting in community theater.

We have fended off Matilda's (out of character) morning grump by playing the video for Gorillaz's "Feel Good, Inc." seven times in a row. Now we've switched to Weird Al's "White and Nerdy."

MM's phone riff is like Bob Newhart crossed with Hunter S. Thompson. Surprisingly fertile territory.

wrod. Hec, I told my dad to buy your book.

MM's phone riff is like Bob Newhart crossed with Hunter S. Thompson. Surprisingly fertile territory.

Now I'm picturing scientists trying to create a Newhart/Thompson hybrid... the first half-dozen attempts end up as horrible mutations, a la the attempts to clone Ripely in Aliens 3....

MM's phone riff is like Bob Newhart crossed with Hunter S. Thompson. Surprisingly fertile territory.

Wow. High praise, dude. I'm very nearly shocked and humbled into speechlessness.

Nearly.

Isn't Newhart, like, the anti-Thompson? So much of Newhart is based on a slightly embarrassed calm niceness, while Thompson... is from a universe that holds none of those words. Including "slightly."

wrod. Hec, I told my dad to buy your book.

Well pimped!

Wow. High praise, dude. I'm very nearly shocked and humbled into speechlessness.

I could be wrong. You might be - as Tommyrot suggests - a horrible mutation. Or possibly a brilliant mutation.

a horrible mutation. Or possibly a brilliant mutation.

Maybe sorta' like Brundlefly....

Isn't Newhart, like, the anti-Thompson?

Hence the humor! Unless you're suggesting they cancel each other out. Though you are probably ignorant of Newhart's breakthrough comedy albums which were all based on one-sided phone conversations.

Unless you're suggesting they cancel each other out.

Well, in a breeding situation. Your point about humor is well-taken, I just think their actual genes couldn't survive in close proximity. Metaphorically. That is, a metaphor which is close to and yet different from yours in its... visualization.

No no, I think my mother had Bob Newhart albums. Also Bill Cosby, I think. Or else I'm getting them mixed up.