the answer given above applies to all the questions, zb. it's pretty comprehensive. you may have to enlarge your head a bit, but locker can help you with that.
i do have a special poem just for sullly, not written by emily dickinson:
may his pig never grunt, may his cat never hunt,
may a ghost ever haunt in the dead of the night
may his hens never lay, may his horse never neigh
may his goats fly away like an old paper kite
that the flies and the fleas may the wretch ever tease
and the piercin' march breeze make him shiver and shake
may the lump of a stick raise the bumps fast and thick
(on the monster that murdered nell flaherty's drake)
may his spade never dig, may his sow never pig
may each hair on his wig be well-thrashed with the flail
may his door have no latch, may his roof have no thatch
may his turkeys not hatch, may the rats eat his meal
may every old fairie from cork to dunleary
dip him snug and merry in river or lake
that the eel and the trout, they may dine on the snout
(of the monster that murdered nell flaherty's drake)
alas, a tad bucolic, but such are my tastes. i do recommend it to those who resort to redundancy of words automatically altered by the supertopo website program in venting spleen here. you can learn from the irish. they have a way with the english language that puts the english to shame.
now locker, you're not married these days, are you?
oh yes, that distractive thread. you have to understand the history of its genesis. it all began with tom cochrane's post on the sandy hook discussion. tom raised my eyebrows with that as well--he's usually far more low-key on here, and he immediately drew a barrage of scorn and contempt. healyje lost all respect for him. that later led me to lose all respect for jeebus, who posted a photograph of himself drinking MGD. jeebus, some time later, lost all respect for me because i had watched and enjoyed rio sex comedy. i surmise that jeebus watched it, but did not enjoy it.
anyway, our dear anastasia was quite upset by this realignment of the major gravitational influences on supertopo. another direct result seems to have been the disappearance, or at least a significant subdual of, graniteclimber. all these events were precipitate by tom's post on 12/21/12, the ending date of the maya long count, and i'm trying to figure out if i missed the partition of our apparent universe into other parallel universes and/or dimensionalities, such as has been discussed in certain circles of advanced physics and new age speculation. as portia once put it, my little mind grows weary.
now anastasia's boobs thread has performed an important function on supertopo. in ways that dr. F is not capable of, she had drawn an entire cortège of off-topic regulars and keeps them sufficiently mesmerized to allow other subjects to prosper. once again we've got good discussions about evolution going, and i think we have her to thank for it.
another question, zumBeispiel? you have to go to locker for "an operation". and, sorry, i don't do links, unless you've managed to interest me in them. again, get the operation.
i thought anastasia taught at a university. you don't need credentials for that, just a phd. you can never lose one of those, once you earn it. and if you get tenure ...
i'll be she's working it into a fieldwork project on male response to soft porn in a nonpornographic setting. you'll find chrismac just as vulnerable to that as the rest of our gender. i'll just bet anastasia is in the sociology department.
well, thanks for getting around to this locker. i know it's come up before, but i just couldn't remember all the sordid details, and i was reluctant to say the wrong thing, since i know how sensitive you are.
btw, i'd love to have a beer with you sometime if it wouldn't knock you off the wagon.
but getting back to the marriage business, i think you ought to give it a little thought. your friends on supertopo might be able to help you with it. a happier locker would make for a better supertopo.
Let us know!