Got any interesting stories to tell about working there? What prompted you to leave?

Haha, the joke's on whoever tries the Chinchilla thing. In some jurisdictions, it would be considered an exotic pet and owning one violates the law.

Your screen name seems to be tailor-made for this story.

"We have found a candidate whose qualifications better match our needs" or words to that effect would have been all they needed to say. There are guidelines to good HR communications.

She's talking to an extremely traditionalist, macho, conservative Slavic man who thinks there's "too much tolerance." She's trying to speak his language in a way that publicly shames him.

This was really more of a Victorian-age thing - By the 20th century, that view of stuttering was on the decline, and you're correct that George VI was ridiculed for his impediment.

This is reminiscent of another elite British fashion of old: It was considered a mark of aristocratic background for men to stutter. The struggle to enunciate was viewed as a reflection of a sophisticated mind searching for the right word. It's very long out of fashion now, but "The King's Speech" and Winston…

If you look at the AMARG boneyard on Google earth, it interesting seeing how many of the planes in its inventory are relatively recent vintage - several B1's, rows upon rows of F-16's and A-10's, as well as the older 1960's-70's Cold-war vintage planes like the F-4, B-52, etc.

Feline seeks mole for role-playing, light domination, watersports.

For 8 year olds of all ages, this stuff is never boring!

Asian competition hadn't yet forced six-sigma practices onto British toy manufacturing in those days.

Yes, the Superfast wheels were clearly developed as a response to the low-friction Hot Wheels wheels. Pre-Superfast, the Matchbox cars were slugs relative to Hot Wheels. We're talking late 1960's, when I was a kid.

One advantage of the ELR over the Tesla: it's not a brick if the battery runs down.

How about the Maserati Hearse they used for the Polish President's funeral a couple of years ago - It's Quattroporte-based, although the bodywork looks a little tacked-on:

That looks like the zinc anticorrosion coating they put on aluminum aircraft parts, it's not the final paint layer.

NY, California, Virginia are examples of states with big geographic disparities, depending on your proximity to the major cities in those states. Virginia is an interesting example that's often overlooked: the northern Va. DC suburbs are very tony and expensive, but many parts of the rest of the state are still the…

I have to laugh at the way the word "microfiber" is thrown around nowadays. Microfiber is really just very small-filament polyester, in most cases. You're wearing some expensive, high-tech athletic wear made of microfiber? You're wearing polyester!

NO, NO, NO! Ronald McDonald should NOT be the officiant. That's a job for Mayor McCheese! Ronald is the best man who makes the embarrassing, indiscreet toast at the reception.

This incident can take its rightful place in the gallery of other Tesla Model S crashes:

His Medicaid spend-down is proceeding at a brisk pace if he's paying $27k for a Honda Fit.