See, now maybe if you’d met Jodie Foster, your image of her would be ruined. Her image is now saved and pure.

Thanks for putting me on the first list and keeping me there. You are just a bunch of sugar sunshine! (that’s good, by the way)

Now I’ll have to think about how to properly respond.

Seriously, if you liked my list of ten things, just imagine how much I’d like yours. Ahem.

While The Missus and I met online in 1991, and in person a couple months later, I must honestly tell you that she was a little quicker on the draw in realizing that we actually had a “relationship.” I am given to understand that this is a common male-female circumstance.

Roz (dwc): Like I said, in retrospect I’ve always been a little goggle-eyed about my failure to cancel the NJ plans and do the movie. My oldest friend swears that he knows which extra would have been my role. It’s been a long time since I saw the film, but I think it was a sort of grungey, angry-looking bystander in a long coat, watching as a wagon — with Gere in it? — rode past. That guy had a beard and longish hair, too — and BROWN hair to boot.

Jules: I prefer to think of it as a guileless face.

Tessa: The greeting-card problem is compounded for me because The Missus and I have an informal tradition of giving each other more than one card for each occasion. There’s a sloppy-sentimental card, and a funny card, and sometimes one or more others. (We actually number the envelopes — 1, 2, 3, etc. — to be sure that the recipient opens them in what the giver thinks is the proper order. Obsess much? :))

I also love practical jokes but am too guileless and too bad at Poker Faces to pull them off. I assume you’ve got a very convincing Poker Face?