Matthew: My fiancée recently gave me some vintage Varga[cq] pinups, part of a series of drawings from a calendar, year unknown. For each month there is the expected hottie and a bit of rhyming verse …
November 7, 2002
Straight from the Hip
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The Vargas Girls cheer up tax day.
Is chili eating up my butt?
Dear Matt: I really like spicy food, but I don't like re-experiencing the spiciness the next day "down there." Could eating spicy food have a lasting damaging effect at my other end? -- matt, Vienna …
November 7, 2002
Don't worry, be happy.
Matthew Alice: Someone told me that the song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" actually was written by some Indian guru. Is this true? -- Rita, San Diego The mindless ditty, the musical equivalent of a happy-face …
November 7, 2002
Closing escrow on Neptune
Hey, Matt: If I wanted to own the moon or Mars or Neptune or some comets or something, who would I have to see to take care of the paperwork? -- JG, San Diego I …
November 5, 2002
Felons and their underwear: The truth revealed.
Mr. Alice: Once in jail, one receives issued clothing, to include underwear. What is the average life of that one-issued daily underwear, from one inmate to another, having been washed and worn for each inmate? …
October 31, 2002
Danged gravel! I'm gonna sue!
Heymatt: Traveling down the freeway of life, the latest wrinkle on the road are sand and gravel trucks with a sign claiming, "Not responsible for damage to windshields." Huh? Did the truckers' lobby manage to …
October 24, 2002
Interesting Trivia!
To: Heymatt From: Foxman Re: FW: Interesting Trivia! 1. Leonardo DaVinci invented the scissors. 2. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 3. Shakespeare invented …
October 24, 2002
The color of sweat.
Matt: This is probably a really weird question, but when I work up a sweat at the gym, there's always some yellowish stain around the collar of my white T-shirt. Why does the sweat make …
October 24, 2002
Who are you? (Who-who? Who-who?)
Matt: Who are you? I find no Matthew Alice in the staff listing. A nom de plume? An alias? Are we more than one person-- "Matthew" and "Alice"? I am plagued with doubt and can …
October 24, 2002
Do ants sleep?
Matt: I have a question for you-- do ants ever sleep? Bill Goehring, San Diego Rust never sleeps, but ants do. At least that's what bug researchers say, and we'll have to take their word …
October 17, 2002
Sex-swapping fish.
Hey, Matthew: My friend swears that he heard that all goldfish are born female but some of them eventually turn into males. Could this possibly be true? -- Ron, Santee I hope your pal's quit …
October 17, 2002