21.   Readers occasionally call to ask what Fed chairman Alan Greenspan has against good times for working folk.

22.   Readers will then call a toll-free number to vote for their favorite belly.

23.   Reader called the prospects promising.

24.   Several readers called to say they tasted the milk, called Skim Delux, and enjoyed it.

25.   Several readers called or wrote to ask.

26.   So readers call about all these issues, but single pages seem to be the most irritating of all.

27.   So, of course, several readers called, e-mailed and wrote asking for the recipe.

28.   The final ingredient, shiitake mushrooms, is still gourmet enough that readers sometimes call and ask for pronunciation help.

29.   The next day, a reader called and demanded specifics.

30.   When readers call and write to protest gasoline price spikes, as they always do, their gripe is always with the robber barons of Big Oil.