Good point. He also has a blue, brass button jacket.
Which is why the females are selective. They don’t want to have to put up with every tom dickin’ hairy.
I don’t get that, and I’m glad. 
Is there an answer to this?
I saw this asked once on the New Zealand version of Hollywood Squares, and the answer they gave was “lover.”
I don’t remember what the joke answer was
It is in the part of the book where he is trying to tap out questions on his pillow in Morse Code, using his head. The young nurse misunderstands what he wants and thinks he is sexually frustrated.
Later some other person realizes it’s code and deciphers what he is trying to say.
In the end, trying to communicate leads to his being euthanized. IIRC.
Mine is a really stupid question, but I have been thinking about it for years! If a prune is a dried plum, where does prune juice come from? A dried fruit doesn’t have juice.
To see better in the dark.
No, dammit, that’s “Why do cats have green eyes.”
I’ll get back to you.
Plums are only partially dried plums in many cases. That isn’t the important part though. Prune juice is made by simmering prunes in water for 3 hours or so and then straining out the solid part.
See, I remembered it leading to him getting some notoriety as they were amazed he could find a way to communicate.
What about the theory that it’s all a dream of someone dying on the battlefield? I’ve got to back and reread that thing.
I had not heard that, gigi. I thought I had a copy of the book, but I can’t find it.
How did the word “reactionary” come to mean “conservative”? If I understand correctly, someone who is reactionary, when presented with a new concept, waves it off as a lot of noise and keeps doing and thinking what they’ve always done and thought. I’d call that a non-reaction, not a reaction.
And I’m still wondering what is meant by a long or short upper lip.
Uh, sleepy?
Parkways, according to Bill Bryson in his book Made In America, were based on the idea that driving should be pleasurable and not necessarily a way to get from A to B- and so Parkways were designed as being pleasant places in which one could “exercise” their car, much like you’d take the dog to the local park for a walk/run around and some exercise. They were originally envisioned as park-like areas in which you could drive your expensive shiny toy and impress the commoners with, from my understanding.
Driveway refers to the designated route from the road to one’s garage. In modern cities it’s only a couple of metres long, but in a Country Estate or a house on an a couple of acres, the driveway can be several hundred metres long- even up to several kilometres in some of the ranches, farms, and stations in rural areas.
Because it’s free to drive on, unlike a toll road in which you’ve got to pay for it.
A reactionary reacts. When presented with a new idea, the reactionary seeks to silence the person from whom he heard the new idea, send their family and friends to a Gulag, obliterate the word from human consciousness, and hunt down and destroy the person who inspired the new thought. Spiro Agnew and Pat Buchanan are examples of reactionaries rather than conservatives. Ann Coulter has the personality of a reactionary, although her adherence to the neo-con system of bad ideas means that she can espouse her own nonsense instead of reacting to the ideas of others.
Margot Kidder has a long upper lip. I have never heard the expression “short upper lip.”
Martini Enfield, good answers on the driveway/parkway, but I’ve gotta say “whooosh.”
The driveway/parkway question is the sort of thing that is often handed to Cecil (and others who make their livings answering questions) and it is a bit of an in-joke to drag it up (along with the “third word ending in -gry”) as an example of a truly stupid question whenever these sort of threads get going. The Master answered the question Why do we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway? just over 19 years ago and it has been a staple of smart-asses ever since.
Bugger.
You know, I could try and cover up by saying we’ve got an example of a Double Whoosh- ie, someone asking a smart-ass serious question and getting a smart-ass serious answer from someone, but I’d be fibbing.
Ah well, can’t win 'em all. 
I see. Thank you.