"I got it in three!" "That's wonderful, Mom." I love to encourage her literary pursuits. "I bet Paul would have taken four or five."

I'm a mathematician. The days that I need to prepare a solution of Acryloyl Chloride are few and far between.

"Gimmel me once, shame on you, gimmel me twice, twice as nice!"

"There are all sorts of things to do." I say. "There's washing dishes, taking out the garbage, laundry, sweeping the kitchen."

We are at the kitchen table eating dinner. As children do, Lisa has dropped some small bit of food onto the table by her plate. As parents do, I absent mindedly pick it up, and to deal with

Read the e-mail on its merits, Google. Mr. Slaughter addresses me as `Dear'. Would a murderer do that?

Putting hazard lights on does not give you free reign to block traffic as you will!

"Where's my wallet?!?" I check my pockets, but it isn't there. It's never there. Someone keeps cutting holes in my pockets.