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The other day the topic of that story came up. People around the office seem to enjoy getting my opinion on things. I think some people like bitter and cynical observations.

I told them that I think the problem with that story is that peoples' sense of self-importance makes everybody who reads that identify with Bergeron...Especially people who read Vonnegut.

Then someone says "Hey! I like Vonnegut!"

Don't make me report you to the handicapper general.

*laughter*

I wasn't joking.

Why not have a federal holiday on election day?

Iron Man movie: I thought it was entertaining. I liked the allusion to future character inclusion.

Jim Jones: I did not know that Reverend Jones sold monkeys door-to-door. I wasn't even aware that there was such a profession. I can't really imagine how that worked out.

I play the lottery on occasion. I just checked my ticket from Wednesday's drawing and it turned out that all of my numbers were exactly one higher than the numbers from the drawing.

I'm not normally the kind of person to do the whole "well if only this number would have been different I would have won $X" thing.

So I share this infomration with a coworker. They respond "Wow. What're the odds of that happening?"

"Umm. The same odds as winning."

"Oh. That sucks."

soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box.

But there's a fifth that gets left off.

Pine box.