I'm going to add to your "much more of an investment to acquire" observation and point out that back then you had to buy albums, not individual songs. So for me at least, I had to really like the band to spend my limited $ on a record. Interestingly (well, to me at least), I continue use to buy music by album rather…

I went into a used book store in 1995 and browsed for a while, fully intending to buy at least one book, probably two or three. I was the only customer in the store. I spotted a book I'd read as a teenager and picked it up and started reading. For nostalgia, you know? After five minutes, Fat Book Store Guy came up…

I live in a different city from my parents. They met Mrs Rabbit in person the Thursday before the Saturday that we were getting married. Pretty hard for anyone to raise objections that way (not that they would)!

No but the Quran says women have to be <modest> which is interpreted as requiring them to wear a veil or a burka. So it's not 100% political-religion is cited as the basis for it. And as an atheist (though not American!) I'd like to know (a) what it takes to be an "evangelical" atheist because that seems like a…

My general answer would be that it's probably the difference between an "average", nice, straight male and his metrosexual counterpart. 'Vive la difference' and all that. But the way Dan's phrased it makes me think he's talking about in the bedroom specifically. And what I think he's on about there is that when you…

Don't be silly-that was hands down one of the greatest responses I've ever read on this board. I mean it.

I very much had the same experience back when I was young, and shy, and introverted. My love life decidedly improved when I came out of my shell and in my mid-20s. Now that was a long time ago so maybe Millenials are different, but somehow I doubt it…human beings don't change that much that quickly.

Mrs. Rabbit still refers to me as her 'starter husband" twelve years into it!

I'm so sorry. Now I feel very small thinking about how sorry I was for myself in high school.

I got married in my mid-thirties to the first person I fell in love with. I don't think I'm uncommon that way. So I wouldn't worry about not having found the right person yet. And I share your dislike of Valentines Day which seems contrived to me. I give Mrs Rabbit flowers and take her out for a romantic dinner in…

My impression is Dan's idea seems like a decent thought for middle aged, married couples, and not so necessary for young folks full of vim and vigour. I fall in the former camp, and Mrs. Rabbit always falls asleep on the drive home after drinking red wine with dinner (ie pretty much every fancy date we go on).

My favourite Dan Quayle moment was the photo-op of him in El Salvador with a couple of military junta types and he's holding a grenade launcher………backwards so it's aimed at his own shoulder. Look, I found it! Thank-you Internet! http://www.gettyimages.ca/d…

Here's a recommendation. Read "Shakespeare's Kings" by John Julius Norwich. The preeminent expert on Byzantium takes on Shakespeare's historical plays (about the War of the Roses) and he alternates between describing what the plays say happened with what really happened. It is a great read.

When he hopped up on the side of the tub that first time I really thought he was taunting the dog. But he was very young, barely not a kitten, and I think he thought it was some kind of super fun game that he wanted in on. I didn't have the heart to stop him afterwards, even though it was a pain in th $&@ to dry him…

I had a large dog who strenuously objected to having her bath, resisting all she could, constantly trying to get out as she was being washed. Then a young cat moved in with us. He loved that dog. The first time he saw her being forced into the bath he came into the bathroom, jumped onto the side of the tub and…

Oh no! What a disappointment to go from that to my pedestrian comment. Well, good luck with the job hunt!

I didn't think you were being catty! I was the one doing the denigrating because I don't have a lot of respect for JT. BA 1994, BEd 1998, part-time teacher for three years, started an engineering degree-didn't finish, started an MA-didn't finish. And that's about it for his pre-political resume I think.

I don't disagree but at least he seems to have forged a media career of some substance. What did the Dauphin ever accomplish before entering politics? He's the perfect example of someone obtaining high political office with little to recommend himself other than his name.

This is interesting. I am not a historian but I have read many of the classics. My sense of Caesar is that he was a populist by convenience only and would have taken any route on the cursus to get to power. So not quite the same as the Gracchii who seem more principled to me. And while I normally can make…

There are worrying signs to the outside observer (and I stand to be corrected on any of the observations that follow because I am not an American so my knowledge isn't what it should be but hell, it's an AV Club Discussion board-when has that stopped anyone?), including the apparent inability/unwillingness of the…