It’s cool, you’re talking to a fellow pedant. :-)

I question the “numerous” part in item 2.

Incorporating different cultures together is integration. It doesn’t mean everyone’s culture is subsumed, which is what you describe at the end here. This isn’t semantics, it’s a big conceptual distinction.

He’s 26, according to the Google, so that’s not far off.

It’s like the two Xanders. The more they’re together, the more alike they become!

I think the bigots take Sunday off to go to their in-laws’ for dinner and sportsball.

It stuck with me ‘cause I’m from Boston originally. The Irish and Italian mobs each do their own separate thing there too. ;-)

what’s the word for an irish guido?

But then, some jokes aren’t worth making.

I simultaneously know exactly what you mean, yet also think that “doing the most basic parts of your job” is way too low a standard to be thankful for...

Poetic justice!

Barack Obama is the last President of the United States. Like, ever.

I say this hall needs one long runner to each side of the round rug, which looks like it’s in a round break-out sitting section of the hallway, and therefore very appropriate there. But the little short rugs in the hall sections to the sides of it are weird in scale.

It’s also pretty funny if it’s a drunken wedding after-party!

Well, I haven’t met Donald Trump.

And people are worried about goddamned bathrooms. Nero fiddles while Rome burns.

LOL and doesn’t know how to thread them. That was like the second thing I figured out once I got my toes wet.

I’m definitely not around as much, so I guess that’d be both of us! I still spend a lot of time online but have, considerably to my surprise, become a Twitter addict. The closing of Gawker had a lot to do with that.

All of that, and a nice bonus, if you keep half an eye on Gear, is the reader polls. It’s thanks to one of those that I wound up with my Technivorm Moccamaster, which at first seemed insane, but now I don’t know how I lived without it. And it should last pretty nearly a lifetime, barring disaster, with maybe…

All of that, and a nice bonus, if you keep half an eye on Gear, is the reader polls. It’s thanks to one of those…

Oh, my God, that’s why the name rang a bell! 😆