the wife after having shaken up a Martini and a Cosmo. She informs me that tomorrow night Mars will pass between Earth and the Moon and will be seen as a black spot on the moon. I think a minute and say "Howdahell dat gonna happen, Mars is a hundred times farther away than the Moon?" And she starts arguing, telling me all the places she read it. I just whipped up another Martini and shut up. Today, I see it is Mercury passing between Earth and the Sun. Damb PhD Duke grad, ain't got sense to blow hot soup.