Spouse and I liked to tell our spawn, “Use your powers for good!” (Also, “Make good choices,” in a terrible NYC mom parody accent.)

Thanks for the Journey earworm. They are officially the #1 “Band I hate but can sing along with EVERY GORRAM SONG”. (Looks for a way to send a punch over TCP-IP.)

I worked while my husband stayed home with our spawn; now that she’s out and on her own, I try not to let it hurt when she contacts him for emotional support (it stings, a little) because it completely makes sense — he was the one who was there for her.

tangentially, your username is giving me data processing flashbacks, and not the good ones. ;)

I’m going to share my Surf Punks earworm: “Ocean’s nothing but a fish toilet, fish toilet, fish toilet...” You’re welcome. :D

Make sure it’s RFC 2549 compliant...

... it seemed that the style of treatment was antagonistic and damaging to Jeff Conaway ...

... I have chosen to look at the whole experience as educational ..

I was diagnosed at 42. It sucked. (Goodbye, beer. Goodbye, french bread. Goodbye, Goldfish crackers. Hello, increased grocery bills.)

My spawn did a summer quarter in China during college and had a dickens of a time finding safe food. Which is weird, because so much GF food is manufactured there.

I’ve got celiac, and I call them “tourists”, because they won’t be in gluten-free land forever; soon they’ll be off chasing the next dietary fad. Yes, they’ve expanded my food options, but they can also endanger my health by paradoxically making food service personnel less cautious about cross-contamination because…

starred for Barrowman :D

The time: 1994

I just squee’d and clapped my hands like a 6-year old girl who just saw a unicorn. (But quietly, so as not to disturb the co-workers.)

*starred for content and user name* “We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light”

Out of curiosity I read the Libertarian Party platform*; if you combine all their positions, in their world you can sell your children into slavery. Progress! </sarc>

*z-pack baby fistbump*

Would that I could give you more than one star...

Were I not at work, I’d google an appropriate image for “schadenfreudegasm”.

Tom Levenson over at Balloon Juice calls it “the home-video version of Triumph of the Will”.