Happy Autumn Birthday, John in SC

     I think we should to something appropriate to celebrate.  Here are some suggestions:  drink a can of Moxie (Maines official soda), eat a needham,  eat a whoopie pie,  buy a flannel shirt or gummy boots from LLBean, or come to Maine with all the other leafpeepers,  eat a lobstah roll,  say the word "ayah" to the first person you meet, etc.

The coast of Maine is a cold, damp place.  A Mummy would have rotted faster than fish on the docks.

Not that physical  realities were EVER allowed to interfere with plot devices on DS...

     I got a kick out of this.  I remember how everyone knew Josette was around by the smell of jasmine and Daphne was the scent of lilac.  Everyone would be able to escape because a stinking slow moving mummy would be hard to miss.  Raineypark,  your wry, right between the eyes observations always crack me up.

Charles Delaware Tate..... and Carlos Colorado Tostitos

     One makes art and the other makes chips and salsa.  I'll take the chips and salsa.

     I like MsCriseyde idea that Julia is a specialist in anything the writers need at the time.  My favorite Julia gaff is every time she gives Barnabas(or anyone for that matter) an injection she winces.  The actor getting the shot should wince not Julia.

Perhaps one of the added "benefits" of Leviathans possession is that one instantly knows how to drive. Makes one wonder what other talents one might suddenly possess.  )

     What do you mean he instantly knows how to drive?  He jumps the curb and runs Quentin down.

     I remember him in Andromeda Strain.  I thought he looked like he was 80.  Its hard to believe he was only 67.  In the movie, he kept flirting with the nurse.  He had irascible old coot down pat.

     I live in Maine and see little old men that look like George Mitchell all the time.  They usually wear well-worn flannel shirts with thermal undershirts(winter or summer) with ill fitting work pants(the kind you buy at a farm store) and suspenders.  They are not married(either never married or widowers for so long they forgot what living with other humans is like).
    I went into a local membership store.  A George Mitchell look-alike walked in behind me.  He yelled out "HOW DO I GET GAS?".  A cheerfull, young girl said "Are you a member, sir."  "No" he barked.  She told him he would have to go to the counter and apply for membership.  He looked at her and yelled " HOW DO I GET GAS".  I walked away at that point.  He wanted what he wanted when he wanted it.  They are stubborn and anti-social.  I think George Mitchell was perfectly cast and played the role realistically.