@pesematology: And it's not like the lions, bereft of natural predators, go and try to recruit the gazelles to be like them. Noooo, they eat them.

@IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel: If I can join you, I'm bothered by the fact that the skirt appears to have been altered to that awkward length.

Office standard here is "very truly yours," although I've never been the biggest fan of it. I like the simplicity of "regards" or "with regard."

Aww... happy birthday to a great Lady.

I liked Aurora because she had blonde hair and black eyebrows. I think the full extent of her influence on me was a shortlived pasttime of wandering around in the woods singing. I never did get the hang of charming the birds out of the tress, but I pissed off a few cardinals in my time.

My mother has always irrationally hated Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep, although she has never been able to articulate why.

@likepenguins: Mmm... lol. When they say the truffles are divine, they really mean it!

Holy... salt? What the hell is holy salt? I must've slept through that part of Catholic school. And I hope they understand that it's a very dangerous thing to use holy water (and, er, presumably salt) because you've got to be mentally very clear that it's just a symbol of faith and has no intrinsic magical…

On the other hand, Nichelle Nichols reportedly loved her costume as Uhura and had this to say about it:

I can't say I love any of my scars, but I haven't gone about trying to remove any of them except one - a scar across my wrist which was the result of a chicken-finger cooking accident. As I was removing the fingers from the oven, a roommate bumped into the sideways oven door and it shut on my arm. It was a deep burn…

@bluetrain84: I have those cravings a lot. Unfortunately, last time I opened my pointe shoes, all three pairs were moldy! Poor storage... Waaah...

@mbot says Spock yeah!: @momentsofabsurdity: From my experience, ballet didn't really help cure my little clumsiness problem; I still trip, stumble or collide with everything in my path. Now I just do it with more flair, and, occasionally, jazz hands.

Ah, articles from the ABA Journal which frequently made me splutter and spit tacks were one of the big reasons I declined to renew my membership. That, and the Hertz logo on the membership card. The bar should be set just a teensy bit higher, imho.

Brigitta Demarcio's boots remind me of the lion cut my cat is currently sporting.

@MarissaExplainsItAll: I sincerely hope you're being ionic.

Too many guys use the line: "So why don't women like nice guys?" to me as an attempt to start a conversation with me in bars. My general answer is usually to explain to them that they're not nice, they're just passive aggressive and I'm not interested in that shit.

@Cole23: Also, the link had the first few paragraphs followed by "more details forthcoming" or something of the sort when this was published here.

@ASmallTurnip: I haven't followed this case as well as I would've liked before explaining why I think the judge overturned it (he'll likely say, and for all I know, he might've overturned it on a narrow issue) but it's my understanding that there wasn't really a law on the books that could be applied here, so they…

@Etoiles: Tropical Miko was my FAVORITE Barbie. She got all the best clothes and Kens (and, occasionally, GI Joes). She was gorgeous and I wanted to look just like her when I grew up.