Word: dopeyness
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...secrets a lot of us are too ashamed to admit is that actually it's nicer round the house when the kids are sick. They're a little dopey and tired. They want more hugs. They go to bed early and nap lots. You can get stuff done. If you could stop worrying for a second, it's almost like a vacation...
...Haven, a burgh whose only distinguishing characteristic is a pustule-shaped rock outcrop known among the locals as "our friend." A central mystery also begins to take shape through many of the vignettes. With explicit overtones of the Leopold and Loeb murder case, the disappearance of a dopey-looking kid becomes the running theme of the book. Then, as if he didn't set enough of a challenge for himself, Clowes will often carry some event or object over from one vignette to the next. In one of the more goofball episodes, "Blue Bunny," a violent cartoon rabbit echoes...
...Their lifestyle does, however, make them the easiest apes for humans to identify with. Because of their more solitary nature, orangutans display a more contemplative intelligence than the often frenetic chimpanzee or the gigantic, seemingly dopey gorilla. One look into an orangutan's almost human, emotion-charged eyes, and there's no denying our intimate kinship...
...What also irks me is that it seems to be one more example of the proliferation of dopey anniversaries in our culture. Yes, way back in 1966 Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation making the third Sunday in June Father's Day, but every day seems to be some kind of anniversary these days. This is something that is mainly foisted on us by the media. You'd think that with the explosion of information in our society, when you can find out whatever you want whenever you want to, that the reliance on anniversaries as catch-all containers...
SEAN KENIFF Dopey doctor stuck by his alphabetical voting system, proving that on Survivor, even the brain surgeon was an idiot...