Part of the hell of selling our house a few years ago was our real estate person supplying us with a bargain house painter.

YES! You have to admit, there are some good costumes.

If he has to ask, he can’t afford her.

Good question! It was an ad for Value Village, a Seattle area thrift shop chain, and it was on the radio. I thought Macklemore was involved, but since Macklemore’s big hit was about thrift shopping at Value Village, that could be why I’m associating him with it. It HAS to be online somewhere. 

Our local thrift store had a musical commercial about all the costumes you could make yourself shopping there. The best one was Sexy Ben Franklin.

I would, but I wouldn’t be worth much as a convert anyway.

The victim is always a pretty girl. Funny looking or outright ugly girls are invisible. BEING PRETTY IS A FULL TIME JOB.

If you want to refer to someone credulous, you need go no further than Conan Doyle. He invented a very rational detective, but literally believed in fairies (which turned out to be cut-outs some little girls put in their garden and took pictures of).

Oh, they don’t tell people the story and stuff until they’re a few hundred thousand bucks into the “success” thing.

I’m not prepared to be afraid of Raggedy Ann. She has a heart printed on her undershirt, because of Love, and a brother, Raggedy Andy. She was one of the first based-on-a-book toys!

Tyrone Needs

Go see if there’s anything good in the wardrobe, would you?

I’m a fiftywhatever year old woman who comes for the dick jokes, stays for the tragedy. I have no actual interest in sports. Woo hoo!

And she was Too Strong To Live! How does that work?

My father was a very non-functional alcoholic who quit drinking thirty years ago. Just quit; no meetings or anything like that; after being not a great parent. I have no idea how that worked, but he’s been sober ever since, and I am jealous of my niece and nephews who have had a completely different experience of a…

I’m waiting for something more official than those vague maybes before I get too upset...

Make it a musical comedy! Do it!

Two different JB movies came out around the same time.

The end of the second season of Sherlock, where John is sitting, barefoot. He somehow looks very small.

Oh, god. That one, and the one where a certain person died.