They just make people smile.

It has an amazing amount of power. We've heard reports that people are getting 60 miles per hour pretty regularly.

Here's your favorite husband. Can I get a smile? Come on. Can the nice lady smile?

He walked around with pockets full of quarters, handing out handfuls to people just to put a smile on their faces.

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.

Good people ... tend to shake our heads and smile when the latest City Hall outrage appears on the front page. But now the power of nature and the gross failure of those charged with building, inspecting and maintaining the wall between us and the water all around us, have left all New Orleans standing together at a fork in the road.