Oh dear. Now I want to hear you talk!

Simon looks so Australian that when I hear an American accent come out of his mouth I twitch.

Kittens, anyone?

I'm not actually asking you to walk away from the church. I'm telling you, your drunk uncle Joe is molesting kids. You need to either excommunicate him from the family in a public & vocal way, keep him locked in the cellar, or accept that in keeping him in the family and letting him go around being a perv folks will…

So here's a trick: when you feel ready to go out, volunteer to be the sober driver. Then you can still go out and enjoy stuff like the bands at the bar and the friends, but you'll have the social pressure of needing to be there for your friends to keep you on the soda and off the beer. It'll also help if you bring a…

Monty Python dances with fish and inverts the definition of life itself with regards to tropical avians. They're insane and consequently can do whatever they want.

Upper level management problems abound in this world.

If you're part of the KKK and in your area it's just a bunch of guys drinking beer, but in another state the KKK puts out homophobic racist media and kills a few folks, you should expect to either 1) split off from the freaks 2) insist the freaks split off and change their name in a very vocal fashion, making everyone…

I feel like a mugger trying to steal some lady's purse.

#19: Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.

This is very, very, *very* relevant to my life right now. The hail from the tornado cell over Denver a couple days ago left divots in my porch railing and broke all my plant pots....

"Hey! You're bi? Oh. Um.... I'm going to go... talk to someone else."

Hmmmm.

I think it's cheaper, less invasive surgery, etc; but still plenty of prejudice. Wasn't there a girl who went this route and was killed for it a decade or two ago?

Whichever term you care for is the one we'll use. :) Congratulations on having the courage to do something like this.

That's the thing with habits - you're not certain you actually like them, but you're used to them and not following through on them sometimes feels weird.

Good on ya for deciding to go sober for a bit. Life is vastly more interesting when you can examine it without the booze filter.

Really? I went to the Army because it was an effective escape from my small, rather closed-minded hometown.... did you see college the same way?

Are you M-F or F-M?

Given the fact that you're posting to a message board on a computer-based system, I'm going to say you mainly have first world problems too.