The Javan rhino has a gestation period from 16 to 19 months so maybe Jen has miscarried one of them more than once, which would explain how she’s been pregnant off and on for the better part of the 2000s but never seems to produce children.

Even Richard Nixon (who also oversaw the foundation of the Environmental Protection Agency and was president during the first Earth Day) was amenable to a National Minimum Income Act. The problems were two-fold: 1) there were the bootstrappy types and people deeply suspicious of who the recipients might be and 2)…

The all-white cover band who performed at my all-white junior prom performed that (the original, not the Key & Peele improved version.) In retrospect I think they were trolling us.

Was the house in New Orleans during Mardi Gras and were you forced to wear a mask and upon the demise of the owner/relative did you take your mask off and discover that your appearance had changed somehow? And did all this happen in black-and-white?

Wonkette. It’s a reference to Mitt Romney’s wife, actually. I thought it was what Mitt might have nicknamed her (he and the Palins are tied for preposterous childrens’ names and nicknames) but I think Wonkette might have made it up.

“Folks,” oddly enough, also seems to be a Massachusetts thing, and he might have picked it up at Harvard. My friends and relatives up there don’t have people over, they (“think about”; they’re always thinking about) “having some folks over” for a cookout (not a barbecue.) We’re all getting up there so if I know people…

I think it might be an age thing. Obama and I are almost exactly the same age and I hate saying “You guys” to a mixed audience and “Y’all” because I’m about as Southern as Egg Romney so I say things like, “If you folks want to, we could meet at my place.”

(Editor’s Note: Subway stories are the best stories. You guys have NO idea how excited I get every time I see “one time I was working at Subway” at the top of a submission. If you’ve submitted a Subway-related story and haven’t yet seen it on here, rest assured that I have it and am saving it for a special occasion)

They are things you would have won on game shows in the 1970s, I’m thinking of “Let’s Make a Deal” in particular.

Oh that Rice-a-Roni (“the San Francisco treat”) comment was priceless. Did they throw in a few Klondike bars? And Doan’s Medical Pills? And a Whip Inflation Now pin?

I can think of a couple of football teams whose performance would benefit by having her on the roster.

I’m a freelance writer/editor and I feel like my life is getting a little too unstructured (like, I have to remind myself to shower every day, and remember what day of the week it is.) I have plenty of work, almost too much work because I never say no to anything, so it’s not like I just sit around all day. To get…

I think the 1980 election was an anomoly, and the 1984 election even more so. The only New England state that voted for Carter in 1980 was RI, and none did in 1984. I don’t think the good people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts were swayed by any kind of Southern Strategy.

Sure. It was actually kind of a comedy of errors. Well, a tragedy of errors, I guess. I had just voted (it was primary day) and was on a subway train, the E, which originates at the WTC. Stuck forever, no information, finally we pulled into a staton and the conductor basically said, “Everyone out NOW!” When I emerged…

I like it, I’ve been many times (I’ve never had a visitor stay with me who didn’t want to go see it once it opened, so I go with them.) It’s a little like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, names inscribed in granite, but it’s two squares where the buildings used to be, and water flows over and down.

The strange thing about “Laverne and Shirley”, though, was that Penny Marshall is pretty Jewish, and her brother, who produced the show, is Founding Mother Golda Meir-level Jewish, and yet her character’s name was Laverne Defazio. I guess America in the late 70s couldn’t wrap their minds around the concept of funny…

Someone also asked this in the comments: What is one of the best art schools in the country? Or maybe you’re European? I know that Britain, France, and Italy still have the academies but I don’t think America ever did.

Where do you live? Come stay with us in New York! We have a BJ’s membership and we have two freezers stocked with all kinds of stuff. Plus I love to bake, I’m going to be making a blueberry crumble tomorrow morning. We’re a biracial middle-aged gay male couple with a crazy puppy but we have tons of food.

I feel like I posted this before somewhere? My dog loves cats. It’s kind of strange. He doesn’t get the opportunity to meet many of them but when he does they get defensive because he is huge and jumpy and puppy-ish and the cats aren’t normally into that but he will lick them on the head and then they will become best…

A friend of mine was the mother of two school-aged children. If you remember the subways shut down, and there were no cabs, and lots of the avenues became pedestrian thoroughfares. I happened to be in the subway when the attacks happened, the trains started and stopped and went out of service, and people from…