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Re: the poll. Back when Biden leaving was still being debated. an older woman interviewed on the local news sagely said, “The Democrats could run two dead flies with the wings torn off and that’s who I’d vote for.”

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I’m on record here for saying I’d have voted for a moldy turnip. Most importantly, in four years the turnip would give me the opportunity to change my mind.

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I would jump in and say I’m the only person in the world to post in Gene’s comments and mention Mets great Mookie Wilson, but I know you guys and somebody would promptly ruin it for me, you miserable bastards.

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I thought of it, can’t recall if I submitted a Mookie sign or not!

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See!?

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Hahaha! I used Shoeless Joe and Casey Stengel, a miserable bastard indeed.

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Not Casey, I’m the miserable one.

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Perhaps, but the good kind of miserable. Somehow.

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I can reasonably assume that police officers with paid confidential informants who are prostitutes have feigned hiring them and not engaged them.

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Good point! Possibly true.

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Or if you buy into House of Cards, political operatives. Or did he the guy actually have sex with the future Mrs Maisel before she beaned him with a rock? I forget. I had to stop watching the show, just too icky.

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The ickiness of "House of Cards" pales when compared to the reality of 2017-2020.

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I don’t think Gene is close to being alone in the paid-for-no-sex category. I know a researcher who has paid prostitutes for interviews, and, someone who paid for prostitutes at bachelor parties and only talked to the prostitutes so as not to be unfaithful.

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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." --- Shel Silverstein. For those who doubted the ChiSox would rise to the nadir...and those with other doubts about positive cosmic forces now in play.

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Like Rachel, I also seem to be the only [insert my real name here] in the world. My last name is Italian, but some people end it with a different vowel than my family does. None of my relatives around here -- or even the who have decamped to the other coast -- have my first name. And since that name is one that was popular in the US 60-70 years ago, it's now hopelessly declasse and would never be considered now.

And I doubt mothers in Italy ever named their daughters this. As my research confirms.

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If there is another Suzanne S. Barnhill in the world, she isn't online. I can be even more confident that there isn't another Suzanne Scoggins Barnhill, both Scoggins and Barnhill being relatively uncommon surnames. I am likely unique in other ways, of course, though apparently I'm far from unusual in having no fingerprints.

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Even without including my middle initial, I appear to be the only Molly Gimmel in the world. Maybe because of the odd mashup of my names - most Molly's are Irish or American and Gimmel is Swiss/German, but whatever the reason I'm the only one on any of the socials or that comes up in a googling.

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When you say "no fingerprints." do you mean "no fingerprints on file," or perfectly smooth finger "pads"? If the latter, you could commit crimes with impunity -- if not immunity (because you're not a President).

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I'm pretty sure I have fingerprints on file somewhere because I recall being fingerprinted for a job application nearly 50 years ago. But apparently with age and a lot of typing I've worn down my finger pads to the point that my fingerprints are not recognizable--at least not by an iPhone. It has been such a joy to have a new iPhone with Face ID because I ALWAYS had to use my PIN on the old one despite trying repeatedly to enter the prints of various fingers and thumbs, only to have the ID work ONCE and then never again. From online sources I have learned that this is not unusual (and that others find it equally frustrating). In any case, the types of crimes I'm likely to commit would not hinge on fingerprint evidence, I suspect!

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Wow -- I gotta check mine! I was in journalism and related professions all my working life, and still type way too many hours on my PC every day . . . maybe I don't have any fingerprints either!

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FWIW, it's not just iPhone: I have a Dell laptop with a fingerprint key to sign in. That doesn't work, either. Not really that much of a nuisance to enter a PIN (as I do on my desktop), just a theoretical annoyance.

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I've been meaning to say that when my daughter was visiting, I was quoting some of the posts here, and she admired your screen name (as do I). One reason I'm all over the internet is that I've never used any kind of pseudonym or screen name; I'm not imaginative enough. So it's just me, loud and proud, everywhere!

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I admire the fact that you're "loud and proud, everywhere" -- I'm too chicken.

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In the poll, I voted no because there are reasons I don't want him elected. Based on those, I'd vote for my neighbor's barking g dog before him.

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Thanks for the picture with the article. A friend I grew up with was in that movie—you can barely see him down the line—and reminds me to call him.

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WHOM DID HE PLAY?

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I think the character name was Bobby. He was the one who broke into people’s houses and moved their furniture around. He also played the role on Broadway for a few years. His name is Matt West. I’m still looking for his damn number.

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Might want to contact his agent (Michael Moore) for info. +1 212 221 0400.

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Oh come on. Piet Hein's verses are better than doggerel! As he writes:

Knowing what thour knowest not

Is, in a sense, omniscience.

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You badly underestimate and disrespect doggerel, which can be great. Madam, I am proud to consider myself a doggerelian.

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Apparently Chaucer was also a fan. I recall one of his Canterbury Tales was written in doggerel which he was asked to change by an irritated listener.

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Okay then!

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Me, too.

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My favorite of his—he called them “Grooks”—is: The universe may Be as great as they say But it wouldn’t be missed If it didn’t exist.

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"Nature, it seems, is the popular name / For milliards and milliards and milliards / Of particles playing their infinite game / Of billiards, and billiards, and billiards.

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"As Pastor X gets out of bed / He puts a neat disguise on. / That halo 'round his priestly head / Is really his horizon."

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By the skin of your teeth.

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As either Casey or Yogi said, "It ain't over until it's over." The Sox can beat their own record today and or tomorrow!

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