> > > > It least you put it out of your misery.
> > > Didn't put me out of my misery, though.
> > Drowned it in sour cream first?
> 
> That might get rid of one kind of misery, but, as
> with many such extreme measures, would cause other
> kinds of misery later.
> 
No doubt.  

> > > Could be worse. You could have one foot ... or three.
> > Some days it feels like it!
> 
> Try going on all fours sometime. Knee pads and gloves
> might help if you're hurting. I once climbed the Temple

Can't.  It's not hurting that's the problem, it's the "numb".  The 
pain isn't a big deal unless I'm on my hands and knees for any length 
of time. The last time I did that it took a solid month for the pain 
to go away.  The pain nerves work just fine. 

> of the (Sun or Moon, I forget) next to Vaclav Nelhybel,
> whom I idolized not because of his music (which was good)
> but because he had a much younger and more glamorous
> girlfriend, and he went up on all fours at least as fast
> as I could go, and I said, wow, and he said, try it, and
> I did, with some success but perhaps not as much as his.
> He descended on fours, as well, but two of these were
> provided by his lady.

Hence the hot girlfriend requirement.  These days I'd need a 
helicopter.  

> > > > Gravity.  Easier to get around the tax code.
> > > The problem with design is that unintended consequences
> > > can come of intended ones.
> > And generally do, depending on who the designer was and how 
> > competent.
> 
> Explain giraffes, please.

Committee designed, filtered through a bad joke generator.

> 
> > > I've been within shouting distance of Angela Davis but
> > > not of Juey Long, who was dead at the time. I have put my
> 
> Did I type that?

It wasn't me. 
 
> > > fingers in the bullet holes made during his assassination,
> > > sort of like what Thomas did.
> > Except Huey wasn't in the same league as Thomas's boss.  
> 
> I don't think they were much acquainted.

One could say.
 
> > >       Title: Spicy and Sour Shrimp Soup
> > >            Stephen Ceideburg                   1 lg Ripe 
tomato, 
> > Now that's a name I haven't seen in yoinks. RIP dude.
> 
> He left about the time I arrived.

Involuntarily.  
 
> > Red Sox primarily, but a few Metsies near the New York border.  
> > Generally the eastern part of the state are Sox fans and west of 
the 
> > River is Yankees.  More or less.  
> 
> Strange thing is that western Rhode Island has
> major infestations of Yankee fans as well.
> 
That should be Pawsox territory, but Rhodie being Rhodie you never 
can tell.
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