When I was in High School, my town had "trick or treat" for canned goods for the local foodbank. They announced it on the radio so that people wouldn't be frightened when big bad scary teenagers showed up at their doors. Sure, a few people were jerks and didn't open their doors when we rang, but most people had…

@ElphabaSkywalker: When I was in high school, my theater-group initiation theme was Holy Grail. I had to walk around school for a day in character as the French Knight. My mom made me the awesomest costume... I should call her and see if it's still around somewhere!

Austin Powers! (I'm a lady)

@alliepwhite: My coworker's boyfriend added a werewolf mask this costume 2 years ago to become Tracy Morgan's Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

I have a friend who always does great unsexy costumes. Once she was a "Brick House" — she made a big sandwich board of brick contact paper with a white picket fence and a cute little window. We were walking around the East Village and a graffiti artist asked if he could tag her. She let him, and then later at a bar,…

I would do this just for the registry. Hey, I really want a KitchenAid stand mixer!

@muddgirl: I've been plagued with plantar warts since I was a kid — best method of removal in my opinion is to sand them down with a gritty nail file and/or scrape with a razor blade (carefully), every day, eventually if you get enough skin off, your body will realize they're a virus, attack and they'll go away. …

@RedBeansAndRiceDidMissHer: My boss had a hysterectomy because she had a fibroma (or whatever those things are called) the size of a fist. She was 10 pounds lighter after it was taken out.

As my boyfriend said this morning, while we were listening to the story about the Rabbi denouncing Paladino's "gay-slurs apology":

@ceilidh: Thank you so much for introducing the term "titscrepancy" into my vocabulary.

@LoveNoelG: When we visit our parents, my brother and I have to share a bathroom. You pretty much can't avoid seeing something. My mom and I try on clothes and do fashion shows in her closet, including bathing suits. My dad sits in the hot tub naked and then runs through the house to get to the bathroom when he's…

@MySandwich: Yeah, I think part of it is that sexuality was never demonized in our house. We're not religious, my parents had been hippies, and I have several close gay relatives. My parents were very open with us about everything and I think I really benefited from it, especially as a teen when I made pretty good…

Scrolling through these responses, I start to think my family is weird. My parents have always slept naked, my brother will shower while I'm in the bathroom doing my makeup, the 4 of us shared tents and hotel rooms all the time while I was growing up. I'm 30 and I've seen my parents and brother naked as recently as…

@I Party With Smoot: Ah yes, publishing. Where we can only understand things by comparing them to other, successful things.

@heymisslayla: Adding on, that Cleo's ancestors kinda/sorta implied that they were directly descended from Alexander himself.

I'm reading Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra biography right now.

SYTYCD fans — did anyone else squee when they saw Mark Kanemura in the Me Against the Music Video? Wish we could have had a close up of his dancing!

@metaphorsbewithyou: The girl who played Don Draper's secretary (that he slept with), was my college frenemy, and she dated my ex after he broke my heart. I had a pretty hard time watching her featured episodes this season.

@la.donna.pietra: I'm sending this whole gallery to my sister-in-law-to-be who is planning her wedding!

@belladonna seablue marshmallow eyes: My 55 is Seisheido from Sephora, but I'm pretty sure Neutrogena makes high-SPF face creams.