Sometime ago there was a Peanuts cartoon in which Lucy is in the outfield playing a baseball game. Of course, Charlie Brown is on the mound pitching. Lucy calls out to him, "Hey, Manager! Ask your catcher if he still loves me!" Charlie Brown interrupts his pitching and says to the catcher, "She wants to know if you still love her." Then, in the next frame, he turns to Lucy and yells to Lucy, "He says, No!'" Then Lucy wants to know why not. He relays the information to Lucy again: "He says there are so many reasons he can't remember them all." 

This upsets Lucy, and she responds, "Really? That's very depressing." Finally, Charlie Brown, exasperated, cries out, "Do you mind if we get on with the game?" Lucy's response is, "Game? What game?" "The baseball game!" shouts Charlie Brown, to whic…