Fall of average proportions.

Good time as any to mention the excellent memoir The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio which is set during the sweepstakes & radio/TV prize craze of the 1950s.

It's ksubliminal kmessaging.

The first step is admitting you have a problem.

We can't. It is sung/shouted from other rooms if someone says something is to the left.

when I grow up I wanna have bawdy swagger.

You killed me with "prancing ball of fantastic"!

I was a Madonna agnostic until my husband and I accidentally got sucked into watching I'm Going to Tell You a Secret. We didn't mean to watch that entire movie, but hate-watching is a powerful and confusing thing. We honestly couldn't understand why she allowed herself to be filmed being so very, very awful. …

I just love your turn of phrase, lady. Hope he gets some of his prance from you! :)

When was she with Sean Penn? Right abt then.

1986

You guys, I truly truly truly hate Madonna. #unapologetic

Does not having any idea who this person is make me an old?

Make sure you get the original run and not the horrid "updated" crap, though. Second hand bookstores should have more then enough pickings.

What platform do civil left-leaning Christians have? We are smothered by the FOX news types as well as atheist militants. The best thing we can do is share our message with people who will listen. Unfortunately, that does not include the media.

Sounds right to me, I ran into that type a lot way back in a long time ago when having feminist philosophy/women's studies/anything of that nature was new to the school I attended. I had professors grill me on what went on in the openly feminist and very young and male professor's classes. I felt like some sort of odd…

I'm sure your mother tried hard ;) my parents made decent burgers, there was just no notion of creative condiments. Pickles, lettuce, tomato, mustard, ketchup, relish...meh. Give me sautéed mushrooms, avocado and bacon!

Men get very angry when you challenge their entitlement to do whatever the fuck they want.

My mom and I do this. Haven't my step sons, however, look at me with a "you're crazy" look.

to be fair, I think I was in the same situation...were gourmet burgers really A Thing until 10-ish years ago?