@erincnyc: It's actually quite difficult to show true colors on a monitor. All of the graphic designers and photographers I know calibrate the colors of their displays so that they can have a better idea of what a printed image looks like. But I certainly don't go through that level of effort with my home displays,…

@erincnyc: It's actually quite difficult to show true colors on a monitor. All of the graphic designers and photographers I know calibrate the colors of their displays so that they can have a better idea of what a printed image looks like. But I certainly don't go through that level of effort with my home displays,…

Color correction notwithstanding (because whatever, you can only guess at colors on a computer screen), I prefer the original photo because it makes her look more human. The wrinkles in her shirt look natural and give the impression that the model is actually wearing the clothing. How can I guess at the texture of the…

Color correction notwithstanding (because whatever, you can only guess at colors on a computer screen), I prefer the original photo because it makes her look more human. The wrinkles in her shirt look natural and give the impression that the model is actually wearing the clothing. How can I guess at the texture of the…

@GitEmDoneSteveDave: You can still smoke at bars in some cities. New Orleans is one of them. Banned in restaurants and theaters, though.

@reimoise: The only time my dog has ended up in a purse (actually a fairly roomy messenger bag) was when we went on a too-long sunny walk that contained an unplanned side trip. Poor baby was overheating, so I just picked him up and carried him home in the bag.

@small-fox: [www.brunching.com]

@elephantom: When living in Texas, I once accidentally mistook the car's thermometer for the clock. I thought I was late getting back from lunch. :(

@curiousgeorgiana: The best trick is to stand behind a kid who's on her dad's shoulders. Kids can't CATCH.

@viklane: My response would have been, "I am this disgusting every day. Also, this burger is delicious." And then, like you, would not have dated him.

@H_is_for_Heretic: Also, people do not "laugh out loud," they LAUGH ALOUD as you noted above.

@CassandraSays: Once upon a time, when I worked at a Dillards, they sold Wusthof knives. And they were beautiful. And since management would not provide us with box cutters, we used the display knives. Let me tell you, an $80 knife cuts through cardboard like butter. Butter!

@Holy Carp: Further facts that may weird you out: the bride was 29 when she got married. She is a practicing veterinarian. The groom teaches high school.

Yeah! When I was in high school, a girl smuggled in an inflatable date. He rode nicely in the limo, but he ended up in the basketball hoop.

@Holy Carp: I have been to a wedding that included "who gives this woman." July, 2009. Oh, yes. It was a Catholic Anglican Rite, and it was all with the thees and patriarchy. The bride's mother covered her head in church and the bride's father gave her away. They'd been engaged since November, and they'd known one…

@young.contrarian: In my experience, the bridal shower is not actually for YOU, even though you are the guest of honor. It is not for your friends, who are equally bored out of their minds. It is for your grandmother, his grandmother, your aunts, his aunts, and assorted old women that you know. Or that know you.…

I am childless, but mostly I like children. Under the right circumstances. Namely, when I'm prepared to deal with them. Like many other people, I am far more inclined to ignore misbehaving children when they are places that I expect them to be (family friendly restaurants, parks, movies aimed at younger folk, ice…

@AgainWithFeeling: I was 18 in 1997, and I nearly fell asleep during the re-release because I'd watched the movies so much as a child they were like a soothing lullaby. I know every explosion by heart.

@AgainWithFeeling: He made them for Christmas 1986, I do believe. There was a net trap and a secret slide and a swinging boulder!

We never got a Barbie house of any flavor because we had an Ewok Village. I'm not sure how the two are related except that my father cursed the Ewok Village's assembly for years and years after Santa brought it to us.