Cancer

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The Roadrunner, of Looney Tunes fame.

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Death Tribble has amassed over €100,000 in outstanding parking and traffic fines in Andorra.  Brexit has meant that he can respond to the demand letters for payment with hand-scrawled notes bearing only the words, "Neener neener neener."

Organization: The Men In Black (MIB).

Specifically, a branch of the MIB (one that I am creating here out of whole cloth), the science & technology arm, dubbed Humans In White Labcoats (HIWL).  FNAL is where much of HIWL's investigations into off-world technology, especially those into the exotic physics of interstellar drives and subnuclear power generation, takes place.  Of course, not everyone in HIWL are humans, and almost none of them wear white labcoats most of the time.  Some superheroes are granted affiliate credentials with the HIWL.

Hmm, Seattle seems to have released their two starting safeties, Diggs and Adams.  There'd been lots of noise about Adams being a cap-room casualty, but Diggs is a bit of a surprise.

The Paragon: The Flash, Barry Allen, of whom Batman once said, "Barry is the kind of man that I would've hoped to become if my parents had not been murdered."

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There is always ... time to save the world.

Yes, and it also is the D&D club.  Dopeheads and Dweebs.

Hmmm ... well ... you're not wrong ....

2 hours ago, Hermit said:

Howdy, Neighbor

Howdy!  C'mon over for a beer.

I admit that I'm not missing grading papers.

OTOH, I'm not enjoying handling my wife's estate and other fallout of her passing, either.

Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois

time.gov is your friend.

Hmmmmm.   I expect to participate.  Wonder if a concept will occur to me in the next 30 hours or so.

Hm.  It seems you can start a business ostensibly for "Biohazard cleanup" but not simply for "Biohazard".  How limiting.

EDIT: Similarly, you can have "Cosmetologist" but not "Cosmologist".

and "Debris Cleanup" but not "Debris Creation".

Not simply "Demolition".

You can have "Dog Food", but that probably is manufacturing or selling that, not being it.

You can have "Emu Raising" but not "Emo Raising".

"Escort Service" and "Exotic Dancer" are explicitly permitted.

Woo!  "Explosives User (Blaster)" is allowed!

"Liquidation" probably does not mean turning your enemies into a slurry.

"Mad Bomber" and "Mad Scientist" are not on the allowed list.

"Magician" is allowed, but "Mercenary" is not.  "Motor Vehicle Wrecker" is allowed.  "Necromancer" is nowhere to be found.

"Neighborhood Watch" is there but not "Neighborhood Witch".

Nothing starting with "Nuclear" is on the allowed list.

"Peep Show" is allowed, as is "Pest Inspector".  I wonder what the overlap is among those.

"Physicist" is not on the allowed list, but "Astronomer" is.  Fascinating.

You cannot have "Arsonist", but I suppose "Pyrotechnics Operator" (which is allowed) is an appropriate stand-in for that.

"Shatterer of Worlds" is not allowed.

I wonder what "Social Worker, Uncertified" is supposed to be.

Huh.  Had no idea there was enough demand for them to list "Tank Renovating".

"Telegram Stripper" is on the allowed list.

No "Torturemaster".

No "Wizard", but maybe they throw those in with "Magician".

Primordial Soup rounds out the trilogy.

Meh, I've had that cookbook for decades.

It is among the results taken as very troubling indications of serious problems with AI picture generation that when the facility was asked for an image of a "fighting wombat" it produced a clearly recognizable Death Tribble instead.  Still got the cubical feces, though.

Late this day (Leap Day) in 1992, my wife proposed to me.

My response was to get up, go to my dresser drawer, and hand it to her: I had already bought the ring.

(In what women have always derided as a Dumb Guy Thing, I was waiting to ensure that I'd have funding -- i.e., a job -- for the next academic year.)

The original species of grumpy cat.

Still impressive typing speed.  I can't do that.

* Cancer shoots another card cheat *