1 October 1999: Deep Thoughts

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I'm sure those grates that separate the hatchback cargo space from the seated passenger area in station wagons do provide safer automobile travel for the dogs exiled thither, but I cannot look at them without thinking otherwise. The dog in the back does not wear a seatbelt, and I should think an abrupt stop would propel the animal at and then through the grate, resulting in a neat pile of dog sausages in the back seat of the car.

RDC's family pronounces the vegetable "escarole" as "shkdol" or some such similarly unspellable Sicilian thing. I was thinking that it might be more interesting to hold something in shkdol than to hold it in escrow. I think this is more an aural joke.

Back in May, I heard someone describe an idea as "way ahead of the envelope." Later that same day, a businessperson on CNN described Cuba as the U.S.'s closest neighbor.

 

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