Kreplach $1000

That's one of my favorite bits from Daffy Duck's "The Scarlet Pumpernickel." And a nice lead-in to an odd suburban evening with the moms of Lief's friends. Topics of conversation included:

--Sudden, permanent, yoga-induced hair loss
--Sweat lodges and smudging
--Is it worse to have pink hair or to dress like a slut--when you're 14?
--Premonitions of violent death expressed in inexplicable fainting in a mall near Great Slave Lake
--Hula hoop workouts vs. Pilates
--Best way to purge the body of red dye 14
--What happens to tummy tattoos after baby #3 (hint: ewwww)
--Desirability of French immersion kindergarten versus undesirability of driving kid every morning instead of watching them cross the park, meaning you don't have to get out of your pyjamas
--Probable ratio of teachers who will understand when a mom picks up her child from school at 3 still wearing pyjamas to those who will not; likelihood that the latter will be teaching at a French immersion school
--Is gin the new cranberry and soda?

RIP, Suzanne Pleshette, you cello-voiced beauty, you.