Friendly’s is a New England chain.

I didn’t even make those associations. George III’s wife was named Charlotte. My thoughts went to her first.

It’s been suggested. More floods of tears ensue. I think that some of her problems with having her hair brushed stem from some sensory issues that have just been diagnosed. They’re being treated, and, well, she’s growing up and will soon be able to care for her hair herself. We hope.

Braid your hair, wrap it around, tuck the elastic under and stick in some hair pins to hold it. Hair pins, mind you, NOT bobby pins.

My niece haaaaaaaates to have her hair brushed, and somehow she can manage to create a huge mat on the back of her head over the course of one two hour nap. Her mom has tried all sorts of things to help, but she also won’t let anyone braid her hair to keep it from tangling. I can get her to sit for me to brush it out,…

Because the e at the end changes the way the vowel is pronounced; it makes the u long, like “oo”, instead of short like “uh”. If you don’t include it, you are trying to braid local drinking establishments.

That would have made Latin declensions so much more fun.

I’m sure that the only reason they wanted to separate them was because they both needed medical care, and vets are rarely co-located with hospitals.

Try shampoo on stains. It’s a great way to use up the stuff under the sink (we all have some). My mom used it for years to get stains out of my dad’s clothes, and he worked as a machinist, a contractor, and on a road crew. She knows from crud.

I’m from Massachusetts, born and bred, and proud of it. Also, their clam chowder is delicious. I’m glad you didn’t take it as dogpiling; I do wish Kinja threaded responses so we could see when a question has been answered. If you ever get out to Boston, you know at least one place to eat!

A friend of mine injured his eye (out running, passing vehicle threw up some dust/gravel), and told me, “It’s okay, I’ll just put some Visine in it. That will help it heal.” He was shocked — shocked! — when I told him that Visine would do the opposite of help to heal an injury.

This. My mom put me on a leash when I was too big to be carried, too little to listen, and wouldn’t hold her hand. I had a little leather harness and the leash attached to the back. Didn’t pull my arm and I couldn’t get out of it. She got crap for it once or twice, which she quickly shut down by explaining the above.

From their website: “Legal Sea Foods was born in 1950 when George Berkowitz opened a fish market in the Inman Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He opened it adjacent to his father Harry’s grocery store Legal Cash Market where customers were given “Legal Stamps” (forerunners of S&H green stamps) with…

Worked just fine when I weighed 260 and was a DDD, but I understand that you have a different shape from mine and it might not work for you. Saying it doesn’t work for ALL women larger than a D, however, is not correct. Source: I was bigger than a D last time I wore one and it worked perfectly, TYVM.

Yes you can. Either the support is built into the dress (boning and bra cups) or you wear a backless, strapless bra. Basically, it’s armor with bra cups. I have never sat up so straight for so long as I did at that formal.

Do it. I wore a red dress for my wedding. So did my grandmother.

I think you need to read up on the art of dyeing with natural materials a little more. Dyes are found in flowers, less so in berries, and often in roots, and depending on the strength of the dyebath and the mordants added, can yield some lovely, varied, and rich colors indeed. Red can be easily obtained with madder…

Did you ever ask her that question?

IIRC, in his first book about the genre, Danse Macabre, he tells a story of almost dying from wasp stings as a child. It's unsurprising that they'd come to the fore when he's trying to come up with something horrifying.