The most interesting thing to my eye is the 'fifth column' that's assumed to be lingering in the heartland.

This explains a lot about MARC schedules.

Hey! We also have Homicide!

Oh yeah, find people who are paid by the mile to garner the quickest route. Well done.

"2) the attitude- like that of my friend. Just get over yourselves already, ok? I've noticed that the Mac people like to go on at high volume about the superiority of their stuff- faster, easier, whatever..."

I hear this a lot, ironically.

Huh. Sounds Irish to me.

Heinlein apparently took that to heart
http://io9.com/5048215/robert-heinleins-bizarre-fan-mail-response-letter

(Oddly, I did a similar thing in college during summer break.)

Nice. A local bar does the same thing. The problem they've run into is that there's a bunch of books (bodice-rippers, whatnot) that nobody wants, so they have to toss them after a while.

But will it blend?

Yeah, anything less that a throw pillow strapped to your stem isn't going to prevent much of anything.

Not sure how I feel about this. The defending team is obviously taking it easy on him.

Majel? They weren't married at the time.

Hambulants.

Bug or Feature? Ash Gray

Damn, there was a parrot in one of the H2G2 radio plays that would squawk out the numbers of local hitmen (he lived in a seedy bar) but I can't find the exact reference quickly. I thought it was in So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, but I can't find it in the .txt version I have. May have been invented for the radio play.

I was PISSED when I realized that my braces had closed the gap in my front teeth. Nobody had told me that would happen, and I didn't think it was a defect. Dave Letterman had one, and he was on TV!