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I'm hooked on Loveline reruns.

I think I've been listening to them too much, in fact. It's just too fascinating listening to the hosts suss out callers so consistently. Realizing how predictable human behavior really is, makes me all the more ashamed that I'm so bad at predicting it myself.

On the other hand, it took Adam and Dr. Drew years of phone calls to be able to read the voices of callers the way they do, not to mention the additional decade of life experience Adam has, and the medical and psychological training Drew has, that give them the ability to not only spot problems, but find solutions. And their most common advice is either "get into therapy" or "get into a twelve-step," which have the common element of external help from other human beings, for the specific reason that self-diagnosis is dangerous, and people who are in trouble need the guidance of people who aren't in as much trouble.

Because people routinely fool themselves about themselves.

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You can buy One Whole Chicken in a can! Kinda. This place is out of stock.

A few years ago, in Fry's Food & Drug, I saw with my own eyes a can of One Whole Chicken, but the graphics were simpler. In fact, the label looked like it was printed in 1982. I wish I had photographed it to prove its existence. Were it not so heavy, I probably would have bought it just as a morbid collector's item.

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I have memories of a long streak of movies where anyone with a long Polish last name has it shortened to a one-syllable nickname. But when I tried to come up with examples, in an attempt to acknowledge darquis' birthday, I couldn't think of any examples aside from Steve "Woz" Wozniak, who exists in real life, "Kube" Kubiak from Parker Lewis, whose name isn't that long, and the guy from There's Something About Mary, whose name I couldn't remember.

Is there really such a collection of names, or am I out "bicycling"?