I saw a clip of David Attenborough talking to a blind baby rhino recently, and the rhino makes little squeaky sounds like Beaker from the Muppets: "Mee! Mee mee mee!" I seriously think these baby rhinos are charming little grifters who get together and work out how to be as cute as they can possibly be.

It was nice that you asked first, though.

Exactly. Because wearing a swan-shaped dress is so ridiculous compared to, say, having yourself sprayed orange or gluing somebody else's hair to your scalp. The joke is on you, Hollywood!

Yeah, but she'd be like "don't let them eat cake!"

I wonder if these people go the ballet and say "hey, that lady is dressed like a SWAN! *snort*"

I know, right? Bjork wears a swan dress to the Oscars, and for years afterwards everyone is like "Bjork wore a SWAN DRESS! To the OSCARS!" As though Bjork is at home cringing with embarrassment and wishing she'd worn the red strapless ballgown instead. Nobody gets it.

"...part of what makes it so special is the sense of suspension."

Is it bad that I want to feed her children Cup-A-Soup and see what happens?

I'm 33, and I can say the autumn years of a woman's life are truly a joy. I have few of my own teeth left, so I spend most of my days in a rocking chair on the front porch eating cornmush and waiting for death.

Young folks today and their rock and/or roll. It's all the same, right?

If it's just about your own "prism," then it's not a movement by a group of people who are all marginalised for a single reason, and it can't be called "feminism."

This sentence doesn't make sense: "she imbues the men involved in these women's' lives as some kind of weird Ultimate Source of Power..." You imbue "with" not "as."

Who else is going to tell us how to earn money with our "labtops?"

It't the Marilyn Manson effect. It takes a few months to warm up and lose the goth, judging by Evan Rachel Wood, who was a gorgeous blonde before dyeing her hair and dressing exactly like Dita Von Teese for a year.

I assume you meant to say "gut reaction," but I kind of like the Freudian slip implied in "guy reaction." ;)

Oh I know what you mean, it is different when it's men. Sometimes they tell you you're pretty as though you don't know it, and as though they're doing you a great favour by confirming what you're desperately hoping is true.

Yeah, I guess "Bob" and "Johnny" sound a little too retro, and not in a good way.

Yeah, good point.

That's a good explanation, pricekx.

"Ace" is a nickname, dammit. Calling a child "Ace" is like calling him "Sprout," "Munchkin" or "Champ."