@Mrs. Stephen Fry: LOL by itself doesn't bother me. What bothers me is when it is used instead of making an actual reply (if your only role in the conversation is to tell me I'm being funny, I'm talking to myself and that's rude) and when used instead of punctuation. I know a particular young woman who uses LOL in…

@ink: re-do, like, re-do the curriculum for kids? Or, like, re-teach everyone who already had sex ed? 'Cause I'm thinking the most effective course might be to re-teach the adults first.

@Leets: They mean things like this: [consumerist.com]

Here's a fun game: re-arrange the letter!

@MissHathaway: That concerns me. A LOT of penguins died in that movie. Seriously, every other shot was a dead penguin.

My junior prom was also my birthday. (My school didn't have a senior prom; seniors were technically invited to the junior prom, but I didn't attend that one.) My mother was several states away with my dying grandfather, but came home for that weekend. My aunt did my makeup. I had bad acne, and she kept insisting that…

@vladdy: Depends.

@Jellybish: He started to bring up men not taking paternity leave, but I've talked with him before about how feminism believes in men's rights too and paternity leave should absolutely be a bigger thing, so he dropped it pretty quickly. He thought that "no one is entitled to children," but I told him I think companies…

@MagsCO: Target to the rescue!

I got to start off my day by schooling our IT guy on how women and minorities are disadvantaged in the workplace. His feeling was that any woman who goes on maternity leave is "gaming the system" unless she gets pregnant by accident. WTF? He also argued that one woman in our department probably makes more money than…

I think you're missing the real problem... SHE'S A CYLON!

@fuzzylizardkitten: I realized I haven't washed yet the bowl I mixed it in, and which the meat was never in, so I dipped my finger in. It's okay. I think it'll be good.

@Scoldy Lox: Thanks! I have those things! (This is exciting)

@midori19: Yes, one of my friends told me ginger ale is good for tenderizing, so I put some in. I tried to smell it, but my hands smell so strongly of garlic right now it was hard to tell.

Cooking Jezzies: advice please!

@moonkitten: I peel off the outer chocolate too! But I am a freak about how I eat most foods. I usually eat off the outer coating of candy bars first, too.

@cool_as_KimDeal: I tried using henna to dye my hair. I went to Whole Foods and bought a box that said "henna" on the front in big letters. BUT, I think that was actually just describing the color and there was not actual henna in the color, because it wasn't permanent at all. This ended up being a good thing for me.…

@SchmoopieVonButtercup: Considering the faces I'm recognizing are really cute, I'm having doubts that they are even real people.

On a whim this week, I signed back into my Geek to Geek account and searched for matches. And you know what I found? All of the exact same guys as last year. I grow suspicious.

@Snood: Yeah, I'm in LA. I was going to head up to the reserve in Lancaster.