When I was a kid, there was a TV show called, "The Millionaire." John Beresford Tipton, gave away a cashier's check for one million dollars each week. His executive secretary, a mild-mannered, good-humoured, but no-nonsense man named Michael Anthony would deliver the check to its intended recipient, staying only long enough to present the gift and then, customarily, leaving the recipient's life forever.
Well, they said the name fast and I heard it as "John Bear's Phitiptin." I thought the millionaire was John Bear and that Michael Anthony was his Phitiptin. I always wondered what exactly a "phitiptin" was.
About the same time there was some deal about euthanasia on the news for a while. I never quite understood it. I mean, why was everyone so upset about kids in China? Yeah, I thought they were talking about youth in Asia.
I was a dumb kid....
