Dearest Diver,

I work with someone who has really bad B.O. I think people with B.O. who gag me with their foul odor are invading my personal space. I'd rather be punched in the face than smell this guy. Can't there be a law against smelly people, making them bathe or use deodorant?

– Curious, Mac

Dear Mac,

I had a good friend in high school who, in 11th grade, started hanging out with a Christian youth group. There is nothing wrong with that, it's just that he became pathologically quiet and stopped using deodorant, (I know this because he smelled like a regular skunk). Now I know that there's nothing in the Law of Moses that prevents people from using deodorant, but I do wonder if my friend stopped using it out of religious zeal. Therefore, I think you should forgive your co-worker's aromatic sins. After all, when Doomsday arrives, the Devil may start sniffing people's underarms so that he can damn all dastardly deodorant-users to the netherworld. In that case, you'd have more to worry about than someone else's body odor.

– Keep it real, The Diver

Dear Diver,

I live in Gem Village and for some reason, there seems to be a disproportionately high number of letters written to this column from Gem Village. Now, I know just about everyone here (I've been here for 18 years) and there just aren't many people like the people represented in these letters. So, whoever is sending these fake letters posing as a Gem Villager, stop. You are giving us a bad name.

– Thanks, Gem Village Jim

Dear “Gem Village Idiot,”

Why don't you pack up your petty possessions, put 'em in Gem Storage and get outta town. I know for a fact that it's been you who's written all the fake letters. You see, I'm also an expert in discerning people's writing styles (I have a master's degree in style), and it's become evident to me that you're playing a malevolent game with the good people of Gem Village. Now that you've “discovered” that all these Gem Village letters are fakes, I suppose you think you've gotten away with it? “He who smelt it, dealt it,” as the ancient saying goes. You ought to be ashamed.

– Insincerely, The Diver

Dear Diver,

Is it true that you have to kiss the foot of Sleeping Ute Mountain in order to successfully leave Durango (and not keep returning)? I'm graduating from the Fort this year, and I want to make a clean break.

– Super Senior

Dear Super Senior,

I don't know whether kissing the Sleeping Ute's toe will forever release you from the Four Corners, but I do know from experience that kissing Meatloaf's ass will give you a serious case of the heebeejeebees.

– Thank you,

The Diver