It reminds me of the episode of Friends where Richard asks Monica for a "ballpark figure", and she responds with, "definitely less than a ballpark".

That's hilarious. I think I love your parents.

I would be plenty rude to anyone, feline or otherwise, who ate my okra and tomatoes. That's just not cool.

I've been reading your various posts tonight, and I'm not sure you really qualify as an etiquette authority, feline or otherwise. (In case you're wondering, I'm pretty sure you gave up the high ground when you called a fellow commenter "disgusting".)

I was wondering that myself. Maybe she refused to share her tuna sandwich or interrupted while the cat was speaking?

Well, sure. Gotta keep your strength up.

Fair enough. I'm still sorry you had to go through that, though.

Wow. I... just... nope. Wow is all I've got.

Oh, God, those fucking sequined animals! It's like they think whatever part of our brain should be responsible for keeping us thin is replaced with a love of sparkly big cats as soon as we get fat.

My first thought, too.

That's terrible! My 14-year-old has been going in and out of vegetarian phases since she was 6, and I've never considered not accommodating her. Sometimes that meant mac & cheese so I wouldn't have to make 2 full meals, but I would never force her to eat meat. Ugh!

Mazel tov. Wishing only health and happiness for you and your family.

I'm so, so sorry for your loss. You're right— I can't imagine what you've been through or what you're going through. I just hope you have all the support you need.

Muslim holidays tend to "migrate" around the Gregorian calendar, though. Eid may fall at any time of year. The Jewish calendar, while lunar, has a "leap month" that gets used occasionally, so that Yom Kippur is always more or less in the fall, Hanukkah is always in the wintertime, and Passover is always in the…

In NY, we have "Holiday Recess" from Christmas Eve until right after New Year's, and "Winter Recess" the week of Presidents' Day.

Sounds like my sister. She will send back any steak that looks like it may once have been part of a cow. She also won't eat any non-starch vegetable besides canned green beans. I think they look and smell just like night crawlers. <shudder>

A Kandy Kake would work, too. Does Tasty Kake take custom orders? We could always buy a ton of regular size ones and assemble a wedding cake out of them, I suppose.

If he does, could your wedding cake please be a giant Krimpet? And can you invite me?

And this was in NYC in 2000, not Victorian England. Very disconcerting.

I was once at Peter Luger's (very old-school NYC steakhouse staffed mostly by cranky old men) with a girl who ordered her steak "very well done". It was all I could do not to burst out laughing when the elderly, gruff waiter put her plate in front of her and said, "And this is what was once a very nice piece of meat".