"Afraid not, Sally. Mr. MacGregor has just become the reluctant plaything of two rampaging female hyenas. But all the better, because this is Ace Melrose on the scene -- and I've got an explanation for the mess of mayhem. It's a phenom called the Damn Doggone, and it usually appears right before a major disaster -- a war, an epidemic, another member of MENSA getting kicked off The Bachelor. It's sort of like Halley's Comet, only it's not." (Photo by J.M. Hilton)