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About the State Dept order for 160,000 airborne-virus hazmat suits, Milady asks, "Is that because they think they're going to need them, or because they don't want anybody else to have them?"

Life in the 2010's, ain't it interesting!

Pete> They changed the headline after they uploaded the story.

That's really funny. My site uses off-the-shelf content management system, and I do it all myself. I've set it up so that, with my main articles, if I change the title, the URL is changed to match (and a re-direct from the previous URL is created). I'm always amused when the Bigshots aren't as adept at webworking as us Smallfry.

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I see… Ebola-infected illegal immigrants behind those trees. They're everywhere now. Everywhere.

Dangergirl, I don't suppose my usual suggestion in such cases, "crack the other knee and it'll take your mind of the pain in the first one," would be much appreciated?

Among hard surface, I've found that concrete is particularly unsympathetic.

Very good, children. All your answers are correct, of course. Everyone gets a condom.

If you leave Central Time zone, going East, at 80 miles per hour, what time is it when you arrive?

Sherry> Inhofe for Senate commercials

I actually don't have TV, so I haven't run into those. I have a local news feed, and follow national & world of course but there's kind-of a hole in my State-level info sources. What with beheadings and ebola and all, I should add some State and regional news feeds to my (so many already) sources.

Yes, it's not like Inhofe's threatened. I'll look up his commercials when I get to the real computer, though, to see what they're like.

Say, Mindful, are you as mystified as I am by all the Inhofe for Senate commercials? To my knowledge there is no one of any substance running agin him, so why all the ads--unless he has a lot of campaign money that must be spent and he is getting it spent.

Now the cat that ate the mouse wants to come inside. Uh, no, fellah, I think you'll have to wait a while. Abundance of caution.

Contagion was the film with the slow-mo of the contagious sneeze spreading in the theater full of laughing people, right? That was well done.

I got nothin'. Just waving hi so I have a virtual presence. Thanks to folks replied on last thread.

Pets are fed. Comments are read. Headlines are red. Sun is shining. Light breeze. Birds chirping. Cool, beautiful Autumn morning in Paradise, Oklahoma. My little fuzzy yellow kitty has been playing with a little mouse friend, but I think mousie is tuckered out now and it's time for fuzzy yellow's second breakfast.

Cat mother: What did I tell you?
Scolded Kitten: Always play with your food.

Thank your Mindful Webworker,
Your daughter should use common sense & stay away from DFW airport. I don't know if you should quarantine her.

Morning, Glories.

Carols bdy yesterday? I missed that. HBD, dear Carol!

Fenelon, sympathies for your SiL. May the family know peace in their grief.

My daughter is helping friends move to Texas. Last text from her, last night, they were in Dallas. Told her to avoid the hospital. Should we quarantine her when she returns?

And

Among the other problems with shacking up, as I said the other day, is a confusion of "anniversaries." Milady and I got married, but six years after we got, erm, "engaged."

Forty years ago this morning, I drove from my house in Tulsa to the train station in Ponca City. A woman from Chicago, whom I had come to know at college in Wisconsin, was coming to visit. I kidnapped her She decided to stay, and we've been together ever since. The most amazing thing about that was, passenger trains stop in Oklahoma? Who knew? (They don't anymore, I don't think.) We are not today the people we were then (thank God!), yet through all the multiple life disasters and personal changes, here we are. Ready for the next forty.

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My 2¢

They haven't banned the plastic fruit and vegetable bags, have they? Just grab bunchs of those, and pack everything you're buying inside one of them. Voilà! Everything is plastic-bagged, and plenty of (admittedly lighter weight) "doggie" bags. In your 10¢ paper sack.

Congratulations on #900, and it's a great one. I appreciate Zoinks' take on the pairings, I hadn't had a chance to think about it, but was wondering.

You surely have thought about getting an actual crossover story together, even if just a short one?

Looking forward to the next 100… and beyond!

"But ultimately, we're all connected by the air we breathe."

HOLY MOLEY! What a maroon!

I just listened from 4:00 to past 4:39, as, uh, your friendly Danube River guide suggested. But in the run-up to 4:39, he says, "we are surging the response," "the President has leaned forward," "acting proactively," and "broad global coalition."

Clusterfork bureaucratspeak at its suboptimal least conducive bovinely excremental. This guy is PR not Dr.

For all SNL's occasional funny, SCTV & MADTV agreed & agreed on better, overall.

I liked the way SCTV incorporated the musical guests into their sketches. The umbrella theme of a wacky low-budget tv station with a cast of regular and recurring characters gave it a nice framework and feel, jokes that could build up over time.

SNL would put their funny skit up front, then it was downhill precipitously. Biggest problem? Every skit dragged on about 3x too long, right? They didn't learn from Monty Python about things like punching it up and swiftly transitioning to another sketch.

But we are forever indebted to SNL for Shatner's Get a Life bit.

Dack Thrombosis:
BREAKING… BURSTING…
VP Biden contracts Ebola, explodes on live television...

President calls him "the best Vice President America has ever had" and says he will continue in the office.

I left a comment, turned out, at the dead end of the Ebola thread. So I repeated it, but, turned out, it was just about the dead end of the dead clown thread. So, let me know when the next thread goes up so I can do it again here.

(Orphaned at the end of the Ebola thread

Dear CDC,

Our daughter is helping friends who are moving to College Station TX. Should we let her come back to Oklahoma, and if so, how long should she be isolated?

Impatiently,
A. Parent