FLICK FLAK, random thoughts on road construction, bank thermometers, David Letterman and other such life obsessions:

 At a prison, would the most hated night of the year be the one in which we turn the clocks back an hour? Haven’t they already served that hour once?

 Considering all the rain and cold in October, is it safe to assume only Humpty Dumpty is having a great fall?

 OK, how many times more on the nightly news do we have to watch yet another close-up of someone getting a needle in the arm? Isn’t there anything else to show? Is an anti-flu-shot-video vaccine available to the public yet?

 So the cost of a college education has gone up 21 percent — in just six years? Is College-Tuition Reform perhaps needed next?

 At Thanksgiving time, you ever wonder if doctors occasionally refer to our insides as giblets instead?

 Yet another endangered species: When’s the last time you made a “collect” call? Does anyone make them anymore?

Bob Dobski

Lindsey Graham

 Central Illinois look-alikes: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Bob Dobski, owner (along with wife, Julie) of the B-N area McDonald’s. (Suggested by Dave Hawkinson, of Girard)

 Wait a minute — those pilots were so busy on their laptops, they just completely missed Minneapolis? Wouldn’t you almost rather hear they were just catching a quick nap?

 Why is it with each passing bit of info, that storyline out of Beason sounds more and more like a bad Coen Brothers movie?

 Today’s thought to think by
As inscribed on a kitchen towel at Garlic Press in Normal:
“Good health: What my
friends always drink to,
before they fall down”

 Yet another suggestion for that CornBelters baseball stadium going up in town: The Corn Bowl.

 David Letterman is an edgy, late-night clown. Shouldn’t his life be a little edgy, too?

 Is there any moment in life when you feel weaker than the one during an argument when you also realize you’re the wrong one?

 Remember when you had to spend three hours to research something, instead of just three seconds to use Google?

 Flak from the Flock:

— “With all the advances in communications, can anyone explain why it still take1s three months for a magazine subscription to be processed and the magazine to arrive?” (Tony Bonacorsi, rural Bloomington

— “With everyone on Twitter, was the new Halloween night expression, ‘Trick ‘r Tweet’?” (Paul Dunn, Bloomington)

— “So why is underwear that’s worn above the waist (undershirt, t-
shirt, bra) always singular but below the waist (skivvies, Jockeys, underpants, shorts, panties) always plural?” (Ken Jesse, Normal)

 Do our shock absorbers qualify for any of that stimulus money that is financing all the bump-ridden road construction and road-stripping projects all over the place? My car may never get over Main Street!

 About the U.S. Transportation Department survey that recently found that Bloomington-Normal drivers have the shortest commute time (only 14 minutes) of any city in America: Can you imagine how much even shorter the commute would be if B-N drivers actually drove like big-city drivers?

 Finally, after centuries and centuries of life on Earths, you ever wonder what keeps the ocean from soaking through to the other side? Yuh, me, too.

Contact Bill Flick at flick@pantagraph.com.