9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for October 15, 2007

Transcript:

"So Francis proposed to Diane. I wonder how he finally was able to disgorge the words." "Disgorge?" "I mean, what makes a man drop his guard and find himself saying what he never imagined he could ever say? Is it a moment of complete madness?" "Madness?" "...A chemical imbalance in the brain, something that leaves him temporarily irresponsible and prattling?" "Irresponsible? Prattling?" "Why do you keep echoing my words?" "You mean, in a tone that a person with normal brain chemistry might term 'nasal menace'?"