So I agree with brightstar and get walked all over anyway? Way to make friends online, dude.

Men and women have gotten scammed in love and marriage for, well, millennia, most likely. And while I've never gotten one of those weird phone calls (I married right out of college, didn't live alone for long), I remember reading a Nancy Drew mystery mumblemumble years ago that involved a lonely-hearts-club scam. So, yeah, no Internet needed.

I haven't gone onto this site, but one of the things I've always wondered about were how many of those mail-order bride things are just scams for men? (Obviously a certain number are codes for prostitution.) People--men AND women--who get burned in these schemes I do feel sorry for, but it's a mix of compassion and "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?????" (same as the people who get scammed by the Nigerians.) But I can safely say that my feelings don't break down by gender.

As I was reading the example strip, it dawned on me that this is a pretty safe way to let the fans play with the script. Often the penultimate panel is where the actual joke lies; the final one is the reaction. So you can still get the Adams humor AND add your own, best of both worlds.

Frankly, that example strip had a mindbendingly lame conclusion anyway, it needed some editing. I think this is a cool idea overall.

it didn't sound like that to me. Not at all. It sounded like, "those people in the White House are sh*tting. Sorry. How'd you like to be...White House? Look at Texas."

And, contextually, it's absurd. Why, in the midst of that conversation, WOULD he have said something like that? They were doing really well in Indiana, he was excited about it. Bad time to start being crude about the voters. If they'd been tanking, now....

Carville is loyal to a fault, a description that's been used for ME often enough that I recognize it in another person. It's great that he's seeing the world a bit more clearly. As for the Judas comment, water under the bridge, as the winners we can afford to be magnanimous.

Carville's somebody you want on your side in a fight, and this is a signal that we can expect him to show up. Thank heavens.

Dumb idea but relatively harmless. The skirts are cute. Except for the last purchase I made at Dick's Sporting Goods, I usually buy my running stuff at K-Mart, so the price tag is slowing me down. Also, I can't imagine spending that much on a top when I have a billion freebie oversized blood-donor tees, so I've given up on looking stylish or cool on the track. The name of the event is eye-rollingly bad, but it would probably be fun for the participants who weren't turned off by it. I think I'd run it in the dress, with a Holly GoLightly 'do and a long cigarette holder....

Geez, it seriously comes down to "whatever floats your boat." But a friend of mine and I were discussing the fact that we both tended to attract younger men (we're currently both married, so the discussion was purely academic.) We are both very smart and outgoing, and men our age tended to be intimidated by us (anecdotal evidence from the male friends who got drunk and confessed this to us.) But the younger men were, well, younger, and they EXPECT us to be more mature, sophisticated, worldly, etc. So the exotic factor came into it. Plus, I was in a number of clubs where people grouped according to interest (in books, movies, sports, etc.), so the men who shared my interests could be of any age, and platonic shared interests led to romantic shared interests.

I have to say that I know of a (married) musician over 10 years younger who's infatuated with me, while I'm infatuated with a (married) actor over 10 years older than me. There's close to 26 years' difference in age between the two of them, and if we were all single I'd date either one in a heartbeat. Age just isn't the issue.

That's true, dick, but it's not the whole truth. Maybe we can split the concepts of "beauty" and "attractiveness?" Physical beauty with nothing behind it isn't very attractive to me (then again, I'm a chick, may be different for men.) On the other hand, there was a woman in my "set," (ex-gf of my husband as a matter of fact), whose beauty all the men raved about, while all the women listened gape-jawed, since she was as plain as a bucket of mud. Not one of us would have traded our looks for hers, much as we envied the attention she got. The qualities men are attracted to are not limited to physical beauty, though you can certainly attract attention if you're at the far end of the bell curve beauty-wise.