George Lucas is a great guy. My daughter used to work for him at Lucas Ranch. He treated his employees very well indeed, the better to encourage their creativity.

If CEOs and other executives didn't have such huge salaries and ridiculously high bonuses, wages could be raised across the board. It will never happen, but if you do the math, you'll see that I'm right.

I completely agree with rabbitgalaxy!

Loved the Smothers Brothers! Did not like all the misspellings in the article. Please have someone edit before posting.

But cats need people to adore them, too.

They're not only too pretty, I just could never eat a kitty!

Doesn't verdant mean "green"?

I started out as a dog person, but we took in a cat who was going to be put to sleep. I fell in love with him, because he was so dog-like. I went on to love all cats, but I still love dogs. So when it comes to animals, I am totally bi.

The high school where I taught offered auto mechanics, auto body, nursing, and woodshop, in which the students participated in actual building projects. I think that's great. Society will always need plumber, electricians, auto mechanics, etc., and some of those jobs pay very well indeed.

The dog's expression reminds me of an older sibling commenting visually about the antics of a much younger sib.

We had a cat who loved Froot Loops. Every morning daughter #2 (who would only eat Froot Loops for breakfast) would leave a few loops floating. Leo would delicately pick them out, using only one claw. Another cat so loved cantaloupe that if I left one on the counter, he would eat through the rind. One was crazy about peas, and could smell them cooking through closed windows and doors. Another loved Chinese food. Still another loved pretzels. I could go on, but you get the idea.

This amazed me. I always thought a hurdy gurdy was the same thing an organ grinder (with dancing monkey) used. I had no idea it was like this, or that it dated to the Middle Ages.

He put it on the wrong way. If he has dogs, cats, or small children, the paper should hang down the back side, otherwise the aforementioned critters will pull it off the roll.

The lemur is clearly meditating.

We had an extension phone in 1965. Wall phones were not the only way to go then, either. Now in the 50s, we lived in rural Wisconsin, and everyone in the area was on a party line. Each home had its own ring. Ours was 2 short rings. The egg lady was one short and one long. She also was very nosy, and picked up to listen when other people got calls. If my dad had an important call, he would say, "Please hang up,Margaret. This is business." She never figured out that when she listened in, you could hear her clock, which she kept right by the phone. Everybody knew that, because we all bought eggs from her, andcould see the clock by the phone.