Frankly speaking.

He might prefer St. Francis Borgia...

Being married to Lucretia.

A pecuiar sort of a gal.

She does have standards, Mac.

If it ever got around...she would never live it down.

Flat mate.

Not to mention that Charles and family...

Live in the apartment above the garage.

Water Boy.

She was really about to say Sam Jaffee...

Thinking of the Cary Grant movie.

The Key Man.

Call it his key man insurance policy.

And he doesn't know the door combination.

Backup time.

Thirty minutes will clear that right up.

Just you wait and see.

The comedy of menace.

Memory and menace in equal proportions.

He was no Edward Albee.

Sacrificial.

Everyone is making a sacrifice of some kind.

What does it profit a man?

Out of character experience.

Like an out of body experience,

But an out of his mind experience.

Thanksgiving 2025.

It might be a Dutch Masters advertisement.

Or a sudden outbreak of Puritanism.

Home-schooled.

The real home school teaches life skills.

Buying and selling your time.

Have Pull.

She learned at an early age...

Not to tax her strength.

Unbelievable.

The unspeakable in denial of the undeniable.

It is impossible to explain, in fact.

Snack time.

There's something to savor everywhere.

Frog's legs from fatted frogs.

Running with the Bull.

The basic retirement plan equipment.

Whistling past the graveyard.

What's in a name?

His name is really Mud, one "d."

Soon to be in Witness Protection.

House of ill repute.

Two would be a major upgrade for the time.

Indoor plumbing and all, chamber pot included.

Day by day.

Every day is the same as the one before it.

And yet it is never the same day.

The past isn't dead.

As Faulkner once said, it isn't even past.

Short memories but long resentments.

Birds of a feather.

A distinct case of shared passions.

What we can learn from wildlife.

Calendrier révolutionnaire.

When she discovers her point...

You will be the first she informs.

On the menu.

After all the effort, she must be starving.

She should put that much effort into school work.

Sweet Sue, That's U.

Susan is her middle name.

Her first name is Lazee.

The End of the Beginning.

As far as he is concerned...

The world will end when he does.

Call him Ripper.

He wins because he loses that contest.

Apples meet Oranges, Oranges meet Apples.

Looney Tunes.

There is hope for those seeking asylum.

Tranquilizer darts to the rescue.

Vanishing point.

Now you see him, now you don't.

David Copperfield could learn from him.

Healthy suspicion.

All those personalized ads are just coincidence.

That's why his upfront price is so low.

Gummy.

More like a Gummy Bear than jelly bean.

Though both are colorful but inert.

An even more brief history of time.

He is obviously wound too tight.

Don't just chime in.

Power trip.

A cross between Catherine the Great...

And Mae West.

Scots wha hae.

There is that Invisible Hand, however,

 That moves the marketplace.

Mirror universe.

Sometimes you would be wise to heed the rumors.

It really is big. Big big.

Point of view.

He has a naturally sunny disposition.

Viewpoints are protected, but not from the weather.

On the bright side.

His aim is to the eternal optimist, literally.

In the words of Monty Python, always look on the bright side.

Look who's talking.

The Parrots will outlive them all.

It's a bird-brained idea at best.

On the eve of extortion.

Veiled threats will get you somewhere.

Mob tactics adapted to frivolity.

Anglais spoken here.

Why do we translate other languages into English?

Obviously, to give work to translators.

Off the Beeton path.

Heavy metals are about to make a comeback.

Bleeding and leeches are right up there with magic spells.

Self-checkout.

The store's slogan is "Help Yourself."

Take one, get one free.

Open house.

Come in and browse as much as you like.

Move on. Nothing to see here.

Brain transplant.

You really should delete your cookies.

Not to mention your history.

Play it as it lies.

A sleeping dog dreams of electric sheep.

Better to let them lie when sleeping than when awake.

Snow White-out.

Mirror, Mirror on the wall,

Who's most neurotic of them all?

Freeloading.

The fistful of knuckles is also free.

Swallowing his teeth will be filling.

The perpetual cycle.

It only stands to reason.

If he won, there must have been fraud.

There once was a man named Taylor.

 The Boy named Sue might not be real.

Taylor Camp, Kauai. on the other hand, was real.

Judge not.

That only works in theory...

But real life is an education in itself.

Play ball.

He is having a ball as it is...

Just playing dumb.

Contested ownership.

Cats own people.

At least they think so.