I would consider adding a cotton bandanna to that urban list. In addition to its use as a head covering (whether to conserve heat or to provide shade), it can also be useful as a dust mask, a tourniquet, a compress, or tinder, as the need arises.
Re: Hello Kitty. In this context, perhaps it should in fact be Heil Kitty.
Comment spam offering pharmaceutical enhancements to the body part of your choice.
Am I the only one with a Dr. Strange? (Actually, he was my mother's doctor in San Francisco.) As far as I know, he didn't have any occult talents.
I have that redoubtable BB of AL recording too, and it set me to thinking about the inverse: the lyrics to House of the Rising Sun sung to the tune of Amazing Grace.
I don't believe I'll take the chance on this next time that that hymn is scheduled to be sung by the church choir I'm in.
My earliest memory is watching the President's funeral on television, with the horses and the flowers, in my family's little apartment in San Francisco.
I'm jonesing for a TNH garden report, please.
"Oh, did I say Social Security? I meant Medicare."
So they're saying that the Red Cross would be flypaper?
On the bright side of things, the next time there's a need for humanitarian aid somewhere else in the world, and the contribution from the U.S. is slow in coming, people will know not to take it as a personal slight against their country. It's just that we're just not good at fixing what is broken, even if it's our own stuff.
On the topic of how long the internet would survive without humans, there was a relevant article at The Straight Dope a few months back.
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