> > For a dog, being in the car is like winning the Super Bowl, falling in love, winning the lottery, discovering life on other planets,

You know Tranio, I think that's the most stirring and exhilarating way that I've EVER heard, to describe the total excitement factor (times one billion) of a dog going: "Road Trip! Yay Road Trip Road Trip! Yay!" I don't know WHAT it is that makes cars so exciting to dogs, but if you could package that feeling and sell it at the corner grocer's along with candy and newspapers, well then, you'd change the face of western civilization ;-)


> > having the absolute best pastrami reuben on dark rye,
>
> Stop right there! I'd like more details about the pastrami Reuben. The Reubens in my neighborhood are Swiss, corned beef and sour kraut on dark rye.
> How is yours different?
> How"still on a diet"ard

Reuebens up here are hot open-face sandwiches with: Montreal smoked meat, melted swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Thousand Island dressing on fresh rye with caraway seeds. Mm-mmmm. I always thought "corned beef" was a chipped, moist cured beef that was awfully salty -- is that what yours is like Howard? -- but Dave says it's supposed to be like Mtl smoked beef (tender mouth-watering slices of light pink, maple smoke-cured inside round beef brisket). "Pastrami" is also an inside round beef cut, but the slices are not as tender and it tastes more like a nitrate-cured luncheon meat.

*Drool* Now Dave's thinking of using some of Emeril's recipes to make Reubens all around... for his own birthday party :-)


> > and finding a certain collectable that you'd resolved yourself to never ever finding in your life... all at the same time. And putting their head out the window? ....don't get me started.

Hey, sticking their noses out the window for them is *their* version of riding a rollercoaster. What a rush! :-)


> > Tra "How to give a cat a bath:
> > 1. lift toilet lid
> > 2. pour in some liquid soap
> > 3. insert cat and close lid
> > 4. sit on closed toilet
> > 5. allow cat to frantically bathe itself for a couple minutes
> > 6. flush to rinse cat
> > 7. quickly leave bathroom and close door
> > 8. cat will exit toilet of its own accord
> > 9. allow cat to dry off and calm down for an hour or so
> > 10. give your cat lovin' and pretend you had nothing to do with the tramatic experience
> > 11. enjoy your freshly scrubbed toilet" nio

Wolf "I wonder how many people have actually TRIED that, uh, bath innovation?" spirit