It's an isolated expanse of wasters and dreamers where the inhabitants say there's no place like home - while longing for icebergs and imported olives. Where men grow beards competitively and where Bible classes wonder, "What kind of furniture would Jesus pick?" It's a place populated by characters like Cheri Wham, who-married the school bully and is now raising a herd of beer-swilling children; Dr Playfire, who casts smug aspersions on his patients' paternity; and Gilbert Wolfscale, who farms t...