Also, totally adorable.

Yep. I was 15 when that came out, and I was pretty startled when he transformed. First time I ever got the hots for a cartoon character.

The Iron Giant!! (which is a fantastic movie)

Ha! This is me. My eldest keeps hearing noises and seeing shadows in his bedroom in our new (furnished, temporary) apartment. There is a rational explanation for all of this, but it still freaks me out.

We had the world's most amazing live in nanny when I was in law school. It was the closest I've ever been to having a wife, and it was amazing.

That is creepy as hell, but could also be a sleepwalking situation (as other have mentioned). I say this as someone who has completely freaked out others with my sleepwalking antics - when I was a middle schooler I was apparently found in the middle of the night standing, fast asleep and motionless, ON the footboard…

Thanks! I think on some level, the scratching was so real and present that I knew it had a real and present cause - nothing otherworldy.

I was about the same age, with a very active imagination, when I was lying in bed half asleep in the dark and I heard scratching. Serious, insistent, definitely-not-a-mouse, human-fingers scratching. From the closet.

I was searching for this earlier, and worried I'd missed it. Thank you for making my expat Halloween experience a little spookier!

Spelled the same, but a complete coincidence. It's "Sunny", with an 'i'.

That may be an urban legend, but I knew a girl named November who had a sister named September, and I also knew brothers named Ben and Jerry (family had never heard of the ice cream), and a Ronald McDonald in my hometown.

I'm with you. There is a judge sitting on the BC Court of Appeal now (she was a Supreme Court judge before this, and a lawyer before that) named Sunni. Like "sunny", but with an 'i'.

Apparently I know a lot of hipsters and their kids. Thanks, Vancouver.

I could watch that Blues Brothers gif all day and all night.

Neil Week is serendipitous in the extreme for me right now, as I a) was mentioning Sweet Caroline just yesterday and b) am relocating from Canada to South America on extremely short notice for my husband's work (with 2 kids) on Monday and desperately need Neil therapy.

I want that coat and hair and all of it. I want to look just like that. And sometimes I also wear the super tight stuff other poster are talking about, and I feel kick-ass doing it.

I deeply appreciate the distinction you make between hanging victims, and and individual who died of hanging.

"when he gets stressed out he really really wants to doodle on the piano for three hours"

My hair is also super straight and slides right out. I still sat through getting a super tight french braid put in my hair every single morning from grade 4 to grade 7, when I finally rebelled.

Thank you! I've never heard of D.E.B.S., and will check it out. It may also be time for Beckham - the male best friend is gay, and comes out adorably. I didn't know that the "whoops, not actually lesbians" was a rewrite. That's kind of disappointing, although football plus lesbian might have been a lot for that film…