The Nose Knows

I just posted on The 99 Cent Blog about my new local 99 Cent store(s).

Another thing I picked up there was this deck of Dating for Dummies cards:

I think the idea is to bring them on a date and pull one out as a conversation starter when you can't think of anything else to say. In all liklihood though, the only conversation that was started was probably, "Why are you carrying Dating for Dummies cards with you on our date"? I don't think the Dating for Dummies card deck sold very well through regular retail outlets because the 99 Cent Store has a ton of them.

I am glad my dating days are over. They sucked.

I will now post a random Dating for Dummies card:

Is your date telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? The nose knows. Peple who are lying undergo some biological changes. Under stress, the nose becomes engorged with blood and starts to tickle, so liars tend to rub their noses when telling a fib. This phenomenon is called the "Pinocchio Syndrome".
Describe a time when you lied to your date, or your date lied to you. Did your nose give you away?

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DogPoker Tapestry

In all the pre-wedding hub-bub, we never got around to posting Boz's or AmyJo's wedding gift packages. We probably will still do so, but while I was sorting and resizing wedding photos this morning, I remembered that we brought Boz's DogPoker tapestry to the beach with us to use as a spare towel -

It is a wonderful tapestry and everybody enjoyed sitting on it in the sand.

I tried to sell it to some old arab women (marketing it as a "magic Aladdin towel"), but they walked right past me -



Danke for the wedding packages, Boz & AmyJo - we loved everything! Especially AmyJo's annotated Tallahassee cookbook!

Although I fear the copy of National Enquirer (or whichever tabloid it was that Boz included in his package) has got Sandra hooked. She thought it was so funny, she likes to pick up an occasional copy when we're out at the store.

Library Patronage

Orange Public.

Cal-State, Fullerton University.

University of Alaska, Anchorage.

And I could never throw away my Peabody Library card from Columbia City, Indiana:


I seem to have misplaced my Dillingham Public, Anchorage Public, Los Angeles Public, Alhambra Public, Las Vegas Public, Bloomington University, and Fort Wayne Public cards.