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Terri Smith's avatar

Am I the only one who giggled that the very fine urology joke came to us from Dripping Springs?

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Sasquatch's avatar

No

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BigDaddy52's avatar

Indeed! True hometown, or part of the joke?

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JefCon 1's avatar

Is it just me who only now realized the name of Dilton Doiley abbreviates to DilDo?

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

And here my initialism was DiDo, as in the legendary queen of Carthage. Um...different strokes eh wot?

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Ann Martin's avatar

D of GG, are you a Molesworth fan?

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

Did a misspelling give me away? Yes, did read them all and had the pleasure of revisiting St. Custard's recently via "The Lost Diaries of Nigel Molesworth."

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Ann Martin's avatar

Ooh new to me, chiz chiz. I will seek it out.

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Lynne Larkin's avatar

You are not alone.

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Helena Handbasket's avatar

I don't think that's how Veronica looked when Gene was a teen.

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Kitchen Cynic's avatar

Appropriate abbreviation for a straight arrow, standup guy.

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Richard Brown's avatar

I endorse making "Why Can't We Be Friends" as the national anthem because it contains my favorite rhyme of all-time: "I know you're working for the CIA / They wouldn't have you in the Maf-i-a." I don't know if that's stupid or brilliant.

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Gary E Masters's avatar

Piffle.

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Seth Christenfeld's avatar

We can all only hope that the gifted (in two senses) Ms. Amram is too busy writing other things to participate in the Invitational, if only because she would be unfairly good at it. Some years ago, she posted a list of restaurant names that she had concocted for The Good Place, and, well...https://www.avclub.com/here-are-all-of-the-food-pun-restaurant-names-that-didn-1819016075

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J.T.'s avatar

She has the all-time best Twitter profile photo.

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Lynne Larkin's avatar

She is a goddess and I’d be honored to have her stomp the last of my comic hopes into dust.

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Suzanne S Barnhill's avatar

FWIW, we've had UnitedHealthcare since 2020 and been more than satisfied. Admittedly, our needs are modest, as we are virtually never sick, but UHC did pay almost the entire bill for my two hip replacements, and at the start of Covid they sent a "care package" of a logoed mask, a no-touch door opener thingie, and several other related items, plus Covid tests before they were generally available. They foot the bill for my gym membership as well (not Silver Sneakers but an equivalent). My two prescription medicines cost risible amounts. We had Blue Cross before and were equally well satisfied. This year the State Employees' Insurance Board is switching to Humana, and I can only hope they got as good a deal with that company.

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Scott's avatar

One of the problems with assessing health insurance is that those who are virtually never sick haven’t any idea whether their insurance is good or not.

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Melody Bomgardner's avatar

Ah, Union insurance! That’s the stuff

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Suzanne S Barnhill's avatar

Not a union. It's the Alabama state agency that provides insurance for all state employees: https://www.alseib.org/Information/About.aspx.

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BigDaddy52's avatar

?? On Substack app, tried to respond using FLIRTING button. Google intruded wanting me to create a 'forms' account.

Anyone else see this?

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Gary E Masters's avatar

I went to school in Lubbock, Texas, but my goal was to get back to the DC area. Then I learned that President Bush's reality contact was in Lubbock. Was I surprised!

After Vietnam, I went to graduate school in Denton, Texas. But still my goal was to get back to crab cake land. Now I see smart comments from Denton. Not a surprise. I have fond memories.

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BigDaddy52's avatar

Regarding your assassination poll:

Look on Substack for Steve Schmidt's Warning 'Mobs, Vigilantes, and Little Eichmanns'.

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

Considering your ineptitude with "fingerspelling" in your tale of attempted intellectual seduction, chances are you probably would have had the same problem with ASL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfo5_7mYsoE

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kenneth gallant's avatar

Why don’t I remember that character?

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