Well, I'll be--it HAS been! Two weeks and a day since you all were last graced with an appearance by the world's most smartest marsupial, Dr. Possum, who takes the opportunity every so often to answer any sort of questions with which you might be burdened, even if they AREN'T of a medical nature, in his regular feature here on Possumblog, Ask Dr. Possum.
Dr. Possum, whose brain is the size of a walnut, still manages to dispense his tremendous knowledge of the workings of the human body, as well as the workings of life in general, with a calm, witty, and urbane manner very similar to that of other well-known physicians*, yet he never asks for your insurance card!
SO, if you have a question you've been hankering to have answered by a semiarboreal nonplacental mammal with a prehensile tail, fire away! (Figuratively speaking, of course.)
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Posted by Terry Oglesby at March 29, 2006 12:32 PMDo you think that maybe we are the only ones here today?
Posted by: Larry Anderson at March 29, 2006 01:49 PMNo, silly man! You're never alone when you have voices in your head!
Posted by: Dr. Possum at March 29, 2006 01:53 PMI'm looking in when I'm not degreasing the cabinets.
Yech!
Posted by: Janis at March 29, 2006 01:54 PMNope, I sneaking in...
What's your feeling, Doc P, about the possibility of American's willingness to pay a premium at the cash register if the place of business they were in made it corporate policy to pay a $10/hour minimum wage and vetted their employees for legal status?
I was talking to a colleague today who recently spent a few weeks in Israel. Seems over there, every restaurant and shop charges a security fee over & above the price of a meal or t-shirt. Why can't we do a similar thing here?
Posted by: Nate at March 29, 2006 01:58 PMJanis, Simple Green is marvelous for degreasing. And it has the great refreshing fragrance of synthetic sassafras!
Nate, as for your question, I would say that most people would complain unless it could be shown with a variety of charts and graphs that actually was worth the extra money.
However, the real problem would be when this becomes politicized and bureaucratized, which adds multiple layers of opportunities for our elected representatives to practice their graft skills.
Posted by: Dr. Possum at March 29, 2006 02:06 PMI'm using Simple Green.
Scot's Hurricane citrus cleaner is good, too.
Posted by: Janis at March 29, 2006 02:09 PMJust don't drink too much of it at one sitting.
Posted by: Dr. Possum at March 29, 2006 02:12 PMCan you drink graft? Or only pork?
Posted by: skinnydan at March 29, 2006 03:34 PMJanis, I find mineral spirits in a spray bottle, wiped down with a good bath towel works really well.
Posted by: Nate at March 29, 2006 04:09 PMI'll keep that in mind for some uses, Nate, but indoors I always have to think of the birds.
Posted by: Janis at March 29, 2006 04:22 PMMr. Skinnydan--the heady tonic of graft to a politician is much like absinthe to a Bohemian wastrel. Or something. As for pork, I recommend Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge Pork Beverage, which is remarkably free of gristle.
As for mineral spirits, I must say I find the use of haints for cleaning purposes to be quite novel.
Posted by: Dr. Possum at March 29, 2006 04:33 PM