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But, please?

Excellent suggestions, Jay! And may I say, there's room here in this thread for both the serious and the silly.

Well obviously.

No, no, Loretta! You're supposed to apply oinkment!

Come on, you know you have some! Out with it! Parents are struggling in China, and you aren't offering up your tips? That's just selfish! Thank you.

Yeah, and bring them the other bag! Lammy, alternatively you could make the kids go outside to eat. That works too. Then you just, ah, mow up whatever scraps they leave all over the yard. We'll call that, Parenting Tip #41. (For parenting tips 1 through 40, please send a SASE and $5.95 to me.)

Eric, I'm late to the party, but the wishes are no less sincere! Have your cake and eat it too! Bearhugs to one of VC's finest!

Oh, God, Mende! I am so sorry for your loss! May your friend rest in peace.

I thought I had heard that the latest foot found was a left foot. Very weird stuff.

That was very nicely put.

So Three Dollars & I are each other's match? Perfect!

Crap. I want in! Just now noticed this thread! Where has my brain been lately? Wanna match me with Three Dollars?

Darlings, as flattered as I'm sure Tim Russert would be by all your musings on your own obituaries, I must ask that you either return to this thread's topic (that would be paying respects to Tim Russert's memory) or at least create your own thread specifically to muse about your own obituaries. This thread has gotten a bit disrespectful, though I admit to having giggled over it. But let's keep a serious thread on topic, ok? I'm thinking that I'm sure going to miss Russert's perspective when election day hits. I'm not sure who among the rest of the field can bring his energy and excitemen

Yes, we'll all be damned.

I don't know the movie of "Where the Red Fern Grows", but what an incredible book. Love it.

Oh, good choice, Kate! God I love that film, heartbreaking though it is. Also another vote here for the incredible "Man in the Moon". A very young Reese Witherspoon is captivating in this movie, and Sam Waterson is fantasic as her father. But definitely keep the tissues close!

Please keep yourself safe.

I just watched that....we all did, gathered speechless around the computer. It made me as numb and heartsick as the day it happened. It's still unimaginable.

So sad. So very young.

Sweetie, I hear ya! Vibes for all of the VC'ers who are struggling with difficult times, and special love to you! This kitty is purring on your behalf.

I still believe in Tweedy's Gurl! Cheers, darlin'! And now that you're legal, howzabout a little Kahlua Chocolate Cake? Hope to see you sometime soon, Rosie! Have a great day & a great year!

I've had that very same thought, Chris. Instead we get Parade magazine covers showing courageous vets trying to recover from horrible disfiguring injuries. Of course I wish them all the best, but all I could think when seeing yesterday's cover was, "What a terrible waste." Just like Vietnam.

I didn't realize that I was "collecting"....I just have the multitudes of golden books that my 3 kids owned. But yes, let's call it collecting! Stepping about as far from Golden Books as is possible; by the way, Laura, I loved "The Things They Carried" and "Lake of the Woods" by Tim O' Brien. Amazing, haunting stuff. "The Things They Carried" was hard to read both for its intense subject matter and also because it really brought back those years, those horrible nightly broadcasts and awful newpaper reports. That was an ugly time.