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Speaking of JOKES - Dear Abby, I have a man I can't trust. He cheats so much, I'm not even sure the baby I'm carrying is his.

It was the CRT that needed around 20,000 volts to bring you your Romper Room. Even with the TV turned off and unplugged, there were capacitors inside that stored enough of a residual charge to put you on your ass. And not in the good way.

RA1, remember taking tubes down to the store to test which one had gone bad? Remember opening up the back of the TV to get to the tubes and reading that stenciled warning? Something to the effect that "there's a thingie somewhere in here that might just kill you dead if you touch it." No picture or description of the thingie, though. Let the 10 year old figure things out for himself, I guess. A more innocent time.

On the whole I think I would rather have a Snickers. Best regards, RA1

Pretty nervy, but real chutzpah would be billing you for phone sex.

Me too, Sucky. I can predict with a high degree of confidence that I will not die on Mars. Nor on a voyage to Mars. Nor while on my way to board the launch vehicle to Mars. Conceivably I might possibly get myself killed by a piece of AS falling out of the sky after his failed attempt to get to infinity and beyond. Now that would really piss me off.

MsG- Of course I remember testing tubes. I also remember wondering why all who stuck their hands in there did not suffer the fate mentioned by lookin. It was a thrill to have your pop come back with more than one replacement tube. That kind of made the whole exercise worth while. Naturally, whatever improvement was extant with replacing tubes was simply temporary. Something else failed or was less than 100% soon. How did we survive those early days? And this was way before color. Best regards, RA1

Well, I'll nominate number eleven (at 1:14 in the video below), courtesy of nonagenarian Iris Apfel, who's featured in Albert Maysles' new film, Iris. I've been waffling about seeing it but am now convinced it should be a gas.

I once saw VP in the terminal at MEM. He was standing around talking to a few gathered around him. I didn't get out a yard stick or any such but he appeared to be about 5 feet 5 inches tall. Doesn't matter, of course, I still enjoyed his performances. Best regards, RA1

I look forward to someone finally posting photos of these Gorgeous Cuban Boys. Di they ban cameras in Cuba???

Great modernist classical percussion piece.

It's got a good beat, and you can dance to it. I give it a 98.

I visited Rio two weeks ago. I stayed in the Ipanema Plaza Hotel (Golden Tulip Ipanema Plaza). It was ok, although I personally think it is too expensive for what you get. But if you want to have guests, you should know that they charge 100 Reais for every visitor. I booked a double room, but that didn´t help. I booked a guy, when he arrived, he had to show ID, I had to come down and they escorted me and the guy to my room. I had the impression that they don´t want to have a guest, so they make it really embarrassing for you. Sorry for the mistakes, my English is not so good, but I thought it might be interesting for other people here.