DEAR ABBY: As chief of staff, secretary and head policy maker of the Long Beach Society of Couch Potatoes, I must say that your correspondent Ann Fink of Florida, with her exercise program for lazy people, neglected to mention a few favorites.
I hereby submit our local program for California Couch Potatoes:
-- Skating on thin ice
-- Casting aspersions
-- Throwing caution to the wind
-- Bending the truth
-- Digging up dirt
-- Flogging a dead horse
-- Going the extra mile
-- Jumping to conclusions
-- Lashing out
-- Upping the stakes
-- Quashing rumors
-- Dancing up a storm
-- Marching to a different drummer
Our group urges that you don't push your luck, for fear that you could end up pushing up the daisies. -- MAX GATOV, LONG BEACH, CALIF.
DEAR MAX: You seem to have an unusually active group of couch potatoes. As with other produce from our great state, California Couch Potatoes are larger and more fully developed than those you usually see sitting in doctors' offices in the other 49.