So now I'm seriously considering buying the T-Rex and Taz for family. Thanks, Bricken.

(Keep in mind there are generally 40+ of us.) We usually have street hockey in the morning, the usual Thanksgiving stuff in the afternoon, drinking and gaming in the evening, a trip to the spa the next day (albeit usually only the women), and later that evening All Holidays' Day bowling (someone misspoke; we made it…

I know a number of these companies. Unfortunately, it's entirely possible that many of them will wholeheartedly support this guy.

Under a minute for Caudata. Googled "photosynthetic animal." Skimmed results saw something mentioning a salamander. Googled lungless salamander, hit Wikipedia page, and got the Order there.

Borrowed from Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (eventual namesake of the annual fiction one-liner contest), alas.

I don't think so. The rhythm/flow is better as is.

Not sure I'm a fan of the red banner, but I love most of the cover images (except Dawn, because that's pretty clearly a sunset).

One thing I never understood about Cinderella was what the Prince was thinking with that whole "we'll find the woman whose foot fits this shoe" plan - aside from the fact that lots of women share the same shoe size - is that if the shoe had ever really fit in the first place, it wouldn't have fallen off.

Can we switch these around a bit? I liked Batman Forever (for what it was) vaguely enjoyed the third Pirates movie, didn't know there was a third Transformers movie, disliked Back to the Future Pt 3 and loathed the third Harry Potter film.

Of course the President is bad for women; he favors policies that allow for female self-determination, when we know darn well that they'd be much better off if they were pampered and freed from the responsibility of making all those stressful decisions for themselves. Obvs.

I've had limited success with that. I think it depends on what the smell came from in the first place.

Cedar shavings work very well for musty suitcases, too.

So how are we carting this all around? I see the drafting table and grindstone being an issue.

Gorgeous.

I saw that! Also seriously awesome.

I was only there briefly, over ten years ago now, but it has continued to fascinate me. And, apropos of this article, I actually did base a city on it in my own writing, albeit without the awesome quicksand and racing tides.

I was going to post this one, too! It's just so ridiculously defensible. For people who are not V and have not heard of it, it's a tidal island. At low tide, it's essentially surrounded by quicksand and the tides can come in at 12mph. Add in heavy fogs which caused people to lose their way, it's not someplace I'd…

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I'm a really big fan of the Mayan Haab' (solar year) calendar for the most part*. Five day weeks, four weeks a month, eighteen months and one extra week that doesn't belong to any month in a year. You could easily add a leap day every four years to that extra week, though they didn't.