When I was a high school kid (circa 1990-ish), I worked in a backwater Hallmark Cards store that sold all kinds of dusty shit that no one wanted. There was a backstreet boys mylar balloon, for example. On the calendar spinner rack (right next to novelty pins and buttons), there was a Fabio calendar with him, naked but…

OMG, we're Bratz dolls!

I always wondered what would happen if I just bought a bunch of those elastic bands with garter clips on both ends (the ones you use to keep a fitted sheet on a mattress) and used them to cinch all my clothes a la mannequin.

LOL @ people protesting the hurting/killing of one creature by threatening to hurt/kill another creature. Because logic.

I don't think there's anything wrong with him being tactful in a public space. I mean, he doesn't need to explicitly describe the act in public just to prove a point or legitimize his coming out.

I'm not going to make the case that The Eyebrows that Launched a Thousand Adolescent Gay Dreams are amazing on their own, but he does put them to remarkable effect.

But it's a pink-and-green, embroidered Hellmouth... with coordinating napkins!

Doesn't that make it impossible for those kids to go to college? I think colleges usually require a diploma from an accredited institution. These kids may not really be looking to college as an option, so I guess that's not really a problem for these folks, but it just seems sad to have kids' options limited so early…

McGlone for Zoolander. 110%.

It's addictive like Twin Peaks was addictive. You'll never know why, and it won't surprise me if it ends the same way, either.

I may be truly self-involved, but I hope this doesn't make things difficult for the Ren Faire fandom/cosplayers.

I only managed it twice in my life, both on behalf of friends who were suffering assholishness from serious jerks. Both times, it was outdoors, and on the ground near their feet, not on them directly. I'm not a heathen.

the X-men have always had such well thought out character development, but I can just see Hollywood choosing to do a stand-alone of every single male character (beyond Wolverine) before any of the females. You know they'd do Cyclops or Gambit before Storm or Rogue.

They have a dual-user option now, if you wanted to just give your friend $4 a month.

my next pet, regardless of species, shall be named Babu. And it will be AWESOME!

I find whale penis so much more exciting... from a scientific point of view, of course. They're prehensile, you know. Like an elephant's.

*gag*

I wonder if this happens in Utah with home-schooled Mormons too...

this is so interesting to me, not having been exposed to it, even growing up in the region. It's amazing how self-contained it is.

I don't see a problem with the language, as long as the students are capable of testing to grade level in that language. Is that what makes them almost unemployable? That they can't read/write in English? It sounded like they also can't do basic math, which would mean the school should lose its accreditation, I…