Puzzled? Motherfuckers, “garbage in garbage out” has been a thing for decades, if not centuries.

Can you imagine what a “black hole fusion accident” could look like?

That doesn’t take into account different dye lots, different manufacturing processes, different suppliers. When that sample book is two years old, it’s possible that the item you order based on it isn’t quite like the one in the book. You’re also kind of bound to that one seller.

When there’s a bricks and mortar store, you can go in and find the item that matches what you want, and buy that item, regardless of who made it.

… liver transplant …

I don’t know anything about her medical conditions, but that’s a big hint.

If you need me, I’ll be in my homogenized breeding blanket.

Springfield. Lafayette.

I had the mildest case of shingles a couple of months after I got my shingles vaccine finished.

Someone else I know had a bad case of shingles, they said they wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

If you’ve had chicken pox, definitely go get the shingles vaccine. If you’re “of a certain age,” you probably didn’t get the chicken pox vaccine when you were younger, because it wasn’t introduced in the US for widespread use until 1995. If you did get the chicken pox vaccine, and haven’t had chicken pox, you still have a risk of developing shingles later on, although that risk is greatly reduced.