I didn’t have any good ones (grandma and grandpa), but one of my ex’s grandfather went by Cid. As in El Cid, not the Final Fantasy Character. I never got the story as to why he was Cid, but I always thought it was a great name for a grandfather.

I’ve gotten it once in my life- I was at a boarding school and the flu virus swept through it like a demonic wind. I ended up with a fever of 103, which was apparently mild. There was one girl there who had to be repeatedly submerged in an ice bath because her temperature kept trying to climb up to 107, which is the…

The microwave is a perfectly good way to steam veggies. It is the best way to get perfectly steamed asparagus.

I know that as guns became more popular, the saltpeter necessary for gunpowder became harder and harder to get or make. At the time, however, it may have still been common.

About that newsweek article:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-global-cooling-story-came-to-be/

That’s brilliant. Thank you.

It was not a commonly held belief. Read the article I posted. It is not behind a paywall. Then, if you have something to say, come back and quit lying.

What did they do to Adelson? I missed the news and I want to get in on that sweet sweet schadenfreude. News articles just say that he pulled his investment out.

I have tears in my eyes from the prospect of such a beautiful dream.

I don’t really care much about Football (the only good thing about Gillette is that it was built without taxpayer money), but as a fan of the Sox, I have to ask: why are Boston teams so shitty at cheating? They can never get it right. I’m waiting for a news story about how the Celtics were putting motor oil on their…

A tacit admission that he had medical bills to pay.

If she objected to rapists, she wouldn’t be working for Trump. I see this as an extension of that attitude.

There was no global cooling consensus during the 70s. There were some papers published about it, but the majority of papers published in the 70s were actually about global warming. Peer reviewed source, with citations and facts, not just a snippet from a newspaper.

DeBlasio is meh. I really want to like him. He just keeps being so meh.

Legally it is not a sport. If it was a sport, they would actually have to take safety into consideration. It’s more dangerous than a sport.

New way to make baseball appeal to the younger set- allowed pegged outs like in kickball.

This shows I’ve been out of MA for too long. I know what a bubblah is, I know to get jimmies on my ice cream and I know that a frappe is a different and far superior being to a milk shake. But what is an uey?

Spill beer on him next time, apologize, say you didn’t see him there. He’s old, what’s he going to do to you?

Do you know the only offensive thing you can call a white person? Racist. Call them cracker, call them honky, they won’t care. Call them a racist and they will get all offended.

That is technically correct. It stands for white supremacy, jim crow laws, separate but equal, lynching African Americans, thinking people are inferior because of their birth, believing that all Catholics should be driven from the United States (seriously, look up the KKK and Catholicism), anti-semitism and general…