We don't get a lot of little quakes here, but the last time we had a good-sized one, I correctly estimated its Richter scale rating. Then, in a roomful of terrified Washingtonians, I got into an argument over the phone about whether the Whittier quake or the Rose Bowl one had been first. (Whittier. My sister was so wrong!)

The only problem is that, given that we go so long between little quakes, I get paranoid at times about big ones.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"