1. The problem with turning off the ringer on your portable phone is that, if you misplace it, calling that number to locate it doesn't work quite so well.

2. You know those movies where men get together for some sort of blowout before the inevitability of adulthood or death? Sure. Well, some of us find those films pretty easy to resist.

3. Does it feel to you as if today is the real start of the new year? 

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