Foobonia and Points West.

You know, it always strikes me as incongruent that Phil is a smoker who practices yoga and thinks vegetarians are hopelessly deviant. Sure, there are smokers who practice yoga--a couple of weeks ago, I distinctly smelled cigarettes on one of the people I signed in at the studio where I practice. Omnivorous people also practice yoga. However, yoga is strongly associated with vegetarianism and veganism because of the yoga principle of ahimsa (non-harming). Also, yogis tend to be health-conscious and at least aware that smoking is a bad idea. So, even if Phil were, indeed, a meat-eating, cigarette-and-pipe-smoking yoga practitioner, I'd expect him to at least know a lot of vegetarians/vegans and not find them especially foreign/scary to live with. I've always wondered whether this was an accurate depiction of Alan, as opposed to one of Lynn's weird[{"wierd"] extrapolations.