This is hilarious. I have a great great aunt who, I am convinced, will certainly do something very similar when I get married next year. That is, if she doesn't just pull the "well, I'm waiting til you're married in the church, dear" move that some other folks on this thread have mentioned.

See, I've always viewed that to be spelled "boinked" - as in, "I can't believe those two boinked in the van after the Brian Adams concert"... while "bonked" was the term for "hit firmly," as in "When two girls tried to cut to the front of the kd lang concert, a woman in the back row bonked their heads together."

Honestly, I think the fact that he's a doctor makes him even worse than your average quack. I mean, people look at Jenny McCarthy and recognize that she has a degree from "Google University" (because that's what she proudly trumpets). But Oz is a certified medical practitioner, and people are really willing to give…

This is the example I like to use when explaining why I'll never give up the Oxford comma:

See, now, you can pry my terminal (serial, Oxford) comma from my cold, dead hands. This is not a battle I will give up on. It just makes. sense. damnit.

Oh no! I hope you're getting good care and treatment, and that you feel well soon!

There are so many bad things about this bill, but it really infuriates me that "possible homosexuality" is put on the same level as "suspected child abuse," as the (only?) other thing that teachers are mandatory reporters for is the possibility that a child is being abused (or other things that could cause harm to the…

You raise a pretty good point, he's got a bit of a sweet-tooth. We should probably stop buying this so frequently, but he's just so happy to have found something to replace ice cream that both tastes good and doesn't contain soy...

This one comes highly recommended from my lactose intolerant but "ice cream" loving SO: Luna and Larry's Coconut Bliss. It comes in all sorts of flavours. The current favourite in the Stockton house is the chocolate peanut butter...

I went looking for a gif response to this comment, and discovered that my gif collection is sorely lacking in "preach" "hell yeah" type gifs.

I'm tossing my support on your side on the whole "medicine isn't a formal dress culture" thing. My hubby, and the shirts that I constantly have to press, can be offered up as anecdata to counter their anecdata.

I worked as a daycamp leader one summer for kids 5 -12. The community rec centre definitely insisted on one-piece suits for swimming and sailing days, largely to prevent wardrobe malfunctions. I thought it was a good policy, and there are plenty of cute one pieces out right now.

Not only is Kiera planning what sounds like my dream wedding, if I'm reading this news item right, she actually *bought a house* in the South of France. To get married in. I mean, she'll probably visit afterward and e'rything, but still. Damn. I mean, it's one way of getting around venue booking fees...

So, I've got very much the opposite perspective here, in that I got an English degree, worked for several years, and then realized I wanted to teach.

There are several aspects of the characters you're referring to as "minority" that didn't get as much play in the films as the books. Is that an issue of too much story to tell, not enough celluloid to tell it on? Perhaps. The Muggle characters in the book also get very little screen time compared to the ink that was…

Check out sciencebasedmedicine.org. It's my go-to site for summarizing why people are wrong about the anti-vax movement. They have an index by topic that helpfully compiles all the articles they've written about vaccinations, and a subset about vaccination and the utter lack of a link to autism.

I'd put mine at about a 3.5...

We keep a can of Gatorade crystals in the house at all times for primarily this reason: when you NEED the Gatorade, you don't want to go GET the Gatorade...

Yeah, I'm sadly familiar with migraine triggers. When I first started getting them, I did a lot of reading on the topic, but I've found my migraines are more hormone related than anything else - don't get them monthly, thank god, but when I do get them, it's always the same time of the month. Thankfully, the red wine…

The food cravings were INSANE! I may have consumed my weight in sour wine gums... but, honestly, it was the first time in a year I hadn't been anxious, so I didn't care!!

Then all my pants stopped fitting, and it was a different story.