You are correct. Grandma doesn't understand the expression. Especially when she suggests that her son (the girl's dad) is just the guy to give it to him. I'm assuming she thinks it means "smackdown".

I hadn't heard of it till this article. Just watched the trailer. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is in it, so I'm there.

I had chicken pox as a kid, and never thought much of it. When the vaccine came out, I called my father in law, who is a very why-fix-it-if-it-ain't-broke brand of doctor, to ask whether my kids should get the chicken pox shot. He said, "get it. It's highly effective, it's low risk, and people can die from chicken…

So, what you're telling me is that all of these years I spent paying no attention to the Dixie Chicks were wasted?! Well, damn.

My brother too :(

Maybe I didn't know what you were saying - if so, I apologize! I thought you were saying that he was being disparaging toward official court reporters, and I was just noting that court reporters, court clerks, and law clerks are separate things. Or is he also part of a movement to eliminate official court reporters?…

Eh. I'm confident that you could do this with every picture of me, taken in the last 15 years, in which I knew my picture was being taken. Why? Because I often take completely awful pictures, but about 15 years ago I noticed that if I positioned my head in a certain way and smiled in a certain way, I am almost…

I love nail art, but there's no way I could pull this off at home.

We were in the back of my parents' van, at night, at the family cabin. Like lidarose, I was naked from the waist down (with my top up, as well), and he had his head between my legs. My aunt and uncle were coming back from a walk, and we froze when we heard them coming. They were actually past the van when I heard my…

Not an interrupted sex story, but: A few years ago my friend picked up a by all accounts amazingly hot guy at the bar. I wasn't there, but a number of our friends were, and they were impressed. This guy was underwear model hot, and seemed really sweet and listened intently to my friend's tales of being in law school,…

This happened to me, but it was my aunt and uncle who opened the car door, thus turning on the dome light ...

I was in high school, and my boyfriend and I were staying at my family cabin with a bunch of my relatives. We decided to go out for a walk one night, but really we went and hid in the back of my parents' minivan to have sex. The windows were down a crack, and some time later while he was going down on me, we heard my…

In high school, at my friends' parents house for NYE. All the parents and all the kids were there, because this was a small community. The house was huge, and my boyfriend and I disappeared together into my friend's bedroom. He started fingering me, and then I felt a terrible burning sensation, because he'd been…

If only I could have cloned myself around age 20, and sent all of my clones into the world to find nerdy guys. We'd have taken over the planet by now.

Vodka, while nothing special, gets the job done. I am disappointed that all the good wines and boozes lost out here. But, since I don't do many non-alcoholic drugs, I'll cast my lot with vodka. And caffeine. I can live with that.

Why would I buy separate butter for baking (because, obviously, eating unsalted butter is repulsive)? Just omit the salt in the recipe and have done with it. Everyone loves my baking. And my frosting.

I don't use any of these things except caffeine. And coke in its original form (coca leaves! I'm not weird, I just live in Peru!). Are any good hard liquors and non-shitty wine-pops still in the running? I mean, booze is my drug of choice (don't even get me started on the concept of "alcohol" against "all of the other…

I completely get your perspective, but that's not what a law clerk is. Court reporters =/= court clerks, who in turn =/= law clerks.

I don't know if there are still greys here, or if I'll get out of the grey if it still exists, but here is my response to the judge: http://themelaniac.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-wo…