That cracked me up, because I actually did propose with a ring pop. I also had a real ring for her, but she still has the ring part of the pop (she ate the candy) in her jewelry box.

I think part of it is that after eight years of embarrassing moments and anti-intellectualism in the White House, a funny intellectual is the course correction so many of us thought we needed.

She absolutely fed off of sympathy and attention and reaction. The Ted Nugent one was crazy to me, particularly because the Nuge was the one she chose to elaborate on. The day I met her, I was on a smoke break with a friend and she came outside and lit up next to us. I was telling him about my cousin who is a lesbian…

You have more endurance than I, I give you a star for your accomplishment. I skipped around hoping it would draw me in later. Nope. Though maybe it was my fault, I assumed “Oversharing at Work” would be about oversharing at work.

When I was working in college I had a coworker who told everyone everything; I heard her complain to the Alhambra delivery guy about having to wait for results on an std test. One of the craziest was when I got back from spring break and was catching up with everyone, I asked her what she’d been up to, she replied
“I…

That’s understandable, there have been some good, even excellent, ones on here. The concept is good, but like so many things in life, it’s about the execution.

Me too. I used to have a TREMENDOUSLY oversharing co-worker (I still recall way too many details of her life) and was hoping that with the article my in-office lunch just got more fun. And then...not so much. I say we correct the situation and make this thread Overshare Stories, I think we are all due! I’d start but…

I got a little further in, though at that point I was just treating it as an endurance exercise.

You are so right, I have heard so many bad/corny/questionable jokes at events like that. The best part is how often the person telling the joke has no idea what it means. I heard an old, respected legislator make a Tinder/Grinder joke at one of these, and while to his credit he tried to hit the punchline, he also…

I blame Game of Thrones for many things

That’s why I was shocked. I heard there was a big death and assumed it would be Jenny, since Abbie should’ve been untouchable (at least for now, a death of her magnitude, just like if it were Ichabod, is a series finale death for a show like this) and Jenny would be a huge one by this show’s standards. This is one of…

Thanks for reminding me I still have Jessica Jones on netflix to watch. I’ve heard it’s uneven in terms of quality (pretty common for first seasons) but I’m still really looking forward to it.

Are you sure, they are all about knowing the real you

That was the main thing I was hoping she’d be asked about, how is that not the first question asked?! Very disappointing, because she can be sharply funny. That being said, of the celebrities I’ve met through work, she is one of the only ones who I barely kept it together while meeting- twice as gorgeous in person and…

I guess I didn’t feel it was as misogynistic because the guys were both so very, very flawed (I don’t know that I’d say he cared for her- was fascinated by, projected onto, sure) that I saw it less as female betrays male than AI betrays humanity, because if we are flawed so are they in awful ways, so are they by our…

I enjoyed your brief debate because that was the discussion that broke out when I saw it with my wife and sister in law. I think it’s a good movie because sci-fi often works on multiple levels. I think it does a good job of furthering the classical themes of “that which we create being what destroys/discards us” while…

Here’s a joke: When a Jewish atheist heard that the best school in town happened to be Catholic, he enrolled his son. Things were going very well until one day the boy came home and said he had just learned all about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The father, barely able to control his rage, seized his son…

Yes in the Torah G-d is a key player, I’m not denying my faith’s belief in G-d. But all questions are for asking, this isn’t the age of Spinoza getting excommunicated, in fact many of us think he’s one of our all-time greats.

People who are learned have been interpreting and discussing and debating as long as we’ve been around. Different beliefs are based on different interpretations. So to answer your original question the difference between “it can mean different things to different people because there are multiple interpretations” and…

Sheet jokes need to be retired when one passes Bar/Bat Mitzvah age. No pants to shul? Why not? That’s weird, almost like wearing leather during High H...oh I see that too...oh. Also, go Flushing! I have family from around there