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Eugene the Jeep was a character from the Popeye comic strip.

There's little to no character in the decoration of my room.

There's little to no decoration in my house for the holidays. The damn cat eats *everything*, so that pretty much rules out decorating. Haven't even had a Christmas tree since 2000.

I love eating...but I have to stop it AND posting now because I've got class. Later all.

Living organisms are scientificly classified by Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and finally Species. The human, chimp, house cat & lion all have enough similar characteristics that they are put in the same Kingdom, Phylum & Class (Anamalia, Chordate and Mammal respectively).

Going to the Post Office is only one of the errands I'm blowing off today because I'm here.

I can't believe I'm actually considering buying a mini-van. I've done nothing for years but make fun of them and the Utah drivers who have them, which is just about every one of them.

But after our trip to SD both Caroline and I found we really liked it and wouldn't mind owning one.

Some people in North Dakota want to change their state name to just "Dakota". They think the "North" is keeping away tourists.

My family's from North Dakota, but I'm California grown.

The Addams Family was a favorite TV show of mine. (still is). I liked the movies, but didn't like how they had Thing running around. I liked how there were various boxes around the house where he could pop out of.

Just like he used to pop out of boxes, I've famously been known to 'pop out' of my boxers.

That I'd like to see

I'd like to see the sea.

I'd like Legion World to see Seahorse.

In the old Super Friends cartoons Aquaman was often shown riding a giant seahorse around. Of course in real life seahorses grow to no more than a foot or so in length, which would tend to make then a little tough to ride.

It would be really tough to ride a porcipine

Prickly is as prickly does.

"Prickly Pete" was the name of one of George Costanza's fake horses from an episode of Seinfeld. It was the one where he was trying to convince Susan's parents that he had a summer home in the Hamptons. They didn't believe him, so he decided to drive them up there, hoping they'd admit they were wrong (even though he knew they weren't). Along the way he tells them that he has a stable and two horses in the Hamptons. The imaginary horses were named Prickly Pete and Snoopy.

My Con Law professor loved Seinfeld. He once had his skating teacher come to class. His skating teacher was Oksana Baiul.

I think my cell phone is trying to kill me.

Sorry for carrying out the Seinfeld topic when I know we're supposed to drift off of it, but since it's Legion-related and I might not get another chance to throw it out there I hope you'll let it slide...

The Maestro, who briefly dated Elaine on Seinfeld was named Bob Cobb. He insisted on being called The Maestro, since he was the conductor of an orchestra, and got offended when Elaine called him Bob.

Bob Cobb, of course was the "secret identity" the Pa Kent gave to Mon-El when he first landed in Smallville and Superboy thought Mon was his brother. As Bob Cobb, Mon-El was a brush salesman. The identity was revived when Mon-El visited Smallville, and was last used as late as 1987 when Mon-El was in Smallville during the "Death of Superboy" arc.

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
"Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.
Through all the flimsy things we see at once
As easily as through a Naples bonnet-
Trash of all trash!- how can a lady don it?
Yet heavier far than your Petrarchan stuff-
Owl-downy nonsense that the faintest puff
Twirls into trunk-paper the while you con it."
And, veritably, Sol is right enough.
The general tuckermanities are arrant
Bubbles- ephemeral and so transparent-
But this is, now- you may depend upon it-
Stable, opaque, immortal- all by dint
Of the dear names that he concealed within 't.

The personified Roman god of the sun, completely identical to the Greek Helios. He was possibly worshipped as Sol Indiges in his temple on the Quirinalis. A second temple was located at the Circus Maximus, near the race-tracks, where he was considered to be the protector of the four-in-hands which joined the races. The emperor Heliogabalus imported the cult of Sol Invictus ("the invincible sun") from Syria and Sol was made god of the state.

One of my favorite Farside cartoons has two average looking average sized explorers looking upon a tribe of giants size natives. One says to the other "If we are lucky, they will revere us as gods."