This past year I resolved to help anyone who asked me. I did. It resulted in one lost friendship, many days of stress, and sometimes a wonderful feeling of satisfaction. I will be more judicious with my help in the coming year. I also resolved to do more exercise. I joined my local community center, swam twice a week…

Welcome aboard! There's no shame in the feelings you're having in your body, they are the perfectly natural result of Cumberbatch exposure. The fact that other people have been there before you should in no way diminish the warm tingles that you are experiencing. I doubt that anyone who first noticed him in Sherlock…

I don't think that any dating website defaults to "smart" people. OKCupid does seem to be responsive to user input though. If you don't like the way your results are displayed, let them know.

That may be how some people use it. My experience is that if I want a fast and easy lay, Craigslist Casual Encounters and Lavalife are the sites to go to. OKCupid is how several of my friends found their spouses, and I've had pre-relationship dates from OKC. I've had numerous hookups and dates on Craigslist, and one…

It was two years ago, but I have a friend with a son named Dalik.

I loved that cartoon so much. I will never forget the fight between Mighty Mouse and William Shatner's toupee.

Nah. Anyone who might have thought that way was out of my life by the time I had my son. He also wanted (and got) a talking Dora the Explorer kitchen set. And a broom. And while he might turn out to be gay or bi (he's 10 now and has expressed romantic interest in boys), I know enough about life to know that my toy…

I was able to send gifts to some of my friends and accept a gift, and then I was cut off. It didn't stop me from playing locally, but I have more gifts to give!

“With today’s sentence, Ingrid Lederhaas-Okun has learned the price she must pay for stealing millions of dollars worth of fine jewelry.” Not fucking much in other words.

I was raised as a Bahai and became an atheist as an adult. I never had Christmas as part of my life. When I was married I exchanged presents with my husband, which was mainly me buying him clothes that I knew he wanted and him not buying me anything that I asked for. It was fun for a couple of years and then it was…

You had me at onion rings.

If I get proposed to tonight, I'll have to say no. Mainly because I plan on spending the evening with my cats, and they are both underage.

Moustaches can be grown and shaved in a matter of weeks. I believe!

When my son was a toddler he loved cleaning. He had a little broom for sweeping the house, and whenever he would spill he would immediately clean it up, even if it was water on the sidewalk. Once I was observing him (through a two-way mirror) in his pre-school class. He and another little boy were cleaning tables. The…

Wah! Why did you have to go and burst my carefully constructed logic bubble with research and facts?! This had better not become a hobbit.

Considering the sources (a random woman who claims she turned him down and a tabloid), I'm going to choose to disbelieve this. Also because in Britain he would ask if she can do "maths" not "math."

I think we would all be fascinated to see what kind of person responds to this ad. Also, how someone both has enough ego to believe that they could fulfill this position while simultaneously having no ego.

Not weird. I never had a Barbie until I was in my late 20's. My mom was/is a feminist and didn't believe in them, but I always wanted one for the dress-up possibilities. I got some for myself, made clothes for them, and was satisfied. Then I gave them to my son when he was little.

Sometimes they are edited together in a humorous way, but the essence of the interviews is the truth as the interviewee sees it. They are often really that stupid.

To be fair, a lot of those boys probably believe the "just the tip" thing, or don't know exactly what kinds of sex create babies either. When we first started dating in high school, my ex-husband thought that a woman could only get pregnant if the couple had simultaneous orgasms. I had to clear that one up for him.