Absolutely. I've had cats and dogs, and volunteered at a wildlife park for over 13 years. I've seen the sense of humor in many animals, even snakes.

Hyenas don't just laugh, they can also moo.

How do I know? I volunteered at a wildlife park that obtained a baby hyena. I got to interact directly with him, and he seemed to like me. As he grew, he would moo at me when he saw me. Then the park relocated about a two hour drive north-northwest of where I live. So I don't get to see him - and the ( Read more... )

In their heyday, The Beatles were the center of the pop universe. Many groups have been hailed as the next Beatles, but does pop music even have a center anymore? Who represents the core of pop music to you?

I don't think of the Beatles as "the center of the pop universe", but rather as the shot in the arm that rock and roll needed when they came ( Read more... )

It’s the Day of German Unity, marking the 1990 reunification of East and West Germany. In our current period of global instability, do you ever feel nostalgic for the seeming simplicity of the Cold War?

Not really. I was very young when Communism became a threat and McCarthyism was in full swing. My father, who was a union steward for the Teamsters ( Read more... )

One part of the platform would be to restore Social Security to what it was originally created to be - a supplement to other income after retirement, and nothing else. No disability checks, no payments to immigrants, nothing else. I would also insist that you didn't get any Social Security payments unless you had worked and contributed money to SS ( Read more... )

Teleportation, without a doubt. I'd save time and money, and be able to see family & friends, and get to places I normally wouldn't be able to, when I wanted or needed to.

There are several commercials I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing over the years, and would watch every time they came on. But the one that springs to mind immediately was done a few years ago. And you didn't know who made the commercial until the very end. It wasn't even a commercial, in the sense that it was advertising a product.

It starts in the ( Read more... )

< b>Do you have a "catch phrase" for which you are known?

Yes. It's a phrase I picked up at work a long time ago. When someone asks me, "How are you?", I generally reply, "Fair to partly cloudy."

I'd like to thank God, for His sense of humor in allowing me to do this,  the people who conned me into doing this movie,  those who put up with me and helped me, those who got me nominated - I still can't believe I was - and those who voted for me.

And to those who didn't vote for me, you voted for a very deserving actress.

Thank you.

I'm now retired, but when I worked, it was for the telephone company. I worked for one or another telco in three different states, and did so for over 34 1/2 years.