Don Edwards

Texting also works better than either phone or voicemail in environments of extreme - in either direction - noise level. Just set your phone on vibrate.

I don't agree that it's confirmed. If Pandora figures that within half an hour either they'll have successfully gotten away or they'll be in a situation where attempting to hide would be pointless, but the enchantment-tangle will wear off after more than half an hour, then (she'll believe) they won't be disenchanted "until sometime after they no longer care about hiding". Also note "until sometime after" - not just "until". Implying a possible significant delay between the not-caring and the expiration. No, there'll be a safety feature that they can't shrink too much while being worn.

And I'm certain we haven't seen every single occasion where Ellen teased Elliot (or vice versa).

I do NOT accept the job of looking up every "Frontage Road" in the US, let alone the world, and adding up their length...

Same thing with I-10 near the TX-NM state line. The fun thing is that this means Frontage Road East is on the west side of the freeway, while Frontage Road West is on the east side.

Undress him?

The other alternative would be that the catgirls run between two objects, and then Rhoda enlarges those two objects so there isn't room for Kitty to run between them. It would require a certain sort of situation where this would delay Kitty possibly-enough for the others to get away. ... and it would probably score low on the jinks scale, so this is probably not what will happen.

The original plan for numbering the interstates was that two-digit numbers would be even for east-west routes and odd for north-south routes, with lower numbers being further south or west. Of course, that's east-west or north-south for the overall route, not necessarily for any given short segment of it. I know, offhand, of places where I-5 is due east-west and I-10 is due north-south. And as the country grew and some diagonal routes got built... a diagonal route has to either change numbers when it crosses another route in the same primary direction, or be out of place sometimes. I-69 exists, at present, in segments from the Canadian border near Detroit, to Houston (and maybe further south). According to the original numbering plan, it is correctly placed only for the segments between the Canadian border and Indianapolis. Which is less than a quarter of the distance between its extreme ends. South of Indianapolis, there are lower-numbered north-south freeways further east. (Three-digit numbers... if the first digit is even it's a loop, connecting to a two-digit freeway at both ends; if odd, it's a spur, connecting at only one end. However if the road in question got extended, either of these might not be true any more.)

When Elliot was first transformed into Ellen, he complained about his back hurting.

Pockets are important for other reasons as well...

Hopefully she doesn't bring home a pet or two from each of these occasions...

Yeah, your heart should not be throwing plastic pipe...

The weather here since mid-November has alternated between too rainy to go outside, and too cold to go outside, with occasional bouts of both-at-the-same-time.

Those are eggbeater arms.

I'm pretty sure that Susan's Curiosity would be on the list of hummingbird-wavers, too. That is, if she counts as a character. (And Susan's Logic might have done it too, when Curiosity grabbed her to stop her from talking.)

Just an hour or so ago in another forum I commented that wee dew halve a few homophones to trip people up.

And most businesses put a great deal of effort into keeping certain things secret. Don't believe me? Just go to your favorite restaurant (that isn't run by members of your own family) and ask for the recipe for your favorite dish from their menu. Creative startups often try to keep most of their plans - or even the fact that they HAVE plans - secret from anyone they aren't actively seeking support from. For those few, they have things called "non-disclosure agreements". (At one time - I don't know if it's still true - under British law you could be charged with the crime of "conspiracy" simply for being part of a group that had a secret plan. What the secret plan was, and what you had or hadn't done about it, was legally irrelevant. So if you and your neighbor planned to tell your spouses you were going to work, and instead went fishing, that qualified. Enforcement of this law was, of course, normally rather less strict. US law is rather different: a criminal conspiracy must be for an illegal end or explicitly embrace illegal means, AND there must be at least one criminal act actually committed in furtherance of the conspiracy.)

There isn't a whole lot of room for that, M. Although I'm sure Dan will be checking just how much room there is. (At least I hope he will.)

But the definitions that include Uryuom would also include squirrels, hedgehogs, guinea pigs, and bats. That we know of. (Of course, none of them have been conclusively proven fertile, so far, that we know of.) Ellen just needed a backdated birth certificate. She's, to all appearances and medical tests, an ordinary human (perhaps with one slightly-weird X chromosome). The first problem with most conspiracy theories is that they require an improbably high, improbably consistent level of competence and dedication among the conspirators. This becomes particularly apparent with multi-generation conspiracies. The second problem with most conspiracy theories is that they assume conspiracies are unusual, strange, and sinister. Here's the reality: the world economy consists of (a) single people running sole-proprietorship businesses on their own property without outside financing, and (b) people involved in conspiracies. Nothing in between. A couple guys named Steve conspired together to shake up the computer industry - they founded a company they named Apple Computer.

Yesterday about 4:00 (which is nearly sunset) our power went out. It took me nearly half an hour to definitely determine that it was just us, not the RV park, and the pole we plug the RV into had power. The temperature was about 32.001 degrees Fahrenheit, and it was raining. I tugged lightly on the other end of the main power cord (where it connects to the motorhome) and got a large spark. AHA! So I turned off the power at the pole, AND unplugged and brought that end of the cable over near where I would be working (making absolutely sure that no oblivious do-gooder could be so kind as to plug the cable back in for me while I was working on the other end of it) and opened up the junction box. There was a big shapeless orange blob of plastic, which had once been one of those screw-on electrical-wiring caps. Fortunately I have a couple spares. I cleared that out and took a good hard look at the wiring in the box, and determined I needed to strip not only some additional individual wires, but also the wrapper of the power cable itself. So I (doing something smart for a change) completely detached the cable from the motorhome, and TOOK IT INSIDE where at least I'd have heat. Because my fingers were extremely stiff and almost devoid of sensation. See prior comment about the weather. Thawed my fingers then did the cable-stripping while squatting on the floor - which put my feet to sleep. After standing up I told my wife that my feet were informing me that the AC power was back and I should desist from standing on the bare wire. Once my feet were recovered, I got ready to go back outside again - discovered that my coat was soaked through. Fortunately I have another. Went out and reconnected the cable, but didn't close the junction box because I planned to inspect my work under better light. Back in the house, found it was nearly 6:00. This morning we actually got a few minutes of bright sunlight, so I took advantage of it for the planned inspection. Decided it was good, put the cover back on the box, and put the tools away. This makes six times in a row that problems with the motorhome have either: stopped it from moving, when we were in a time crunch and needed to move; or occurred in really crappy weather, and required outside work to fix; or both of the above

It's in a pocket universe. The head librarian is a sphinx named Phix. It has a copy of every book ever written, from stone tablets to ebooks.

One attempt with the diamond takes just a couple seconds... go in male, touch it, check for separation. If no separation then switch to female and try again. After all, we don't know what happens if the diamond's magic detects TWO curses. Better to not try it with any curses that matter to anyone.

Kitty will not get a catgirl transformation spell. Pandora doesn't seem to go in much for repetition, and that would be rather like Catalina's. If she gets a mark-spell, it will be one that allows her to run very fast. Satisfying her earnest desire to catch up with those two catgirls that she's about to see running past.

The answer to Kitty's question is, of course, "one that has just been cleaned out by a group of catgirl fans".

A shockwave of catness?