holy fuuuu... (help)

GnomeChomsky? I recently read a fun... fiction with that reference. hmmmm.

They couldn’t get Tom Hiddleston.

GOD did I say that? “meaningless”? Hyperbole is strong with this one...

It wasn’t an argument, at least certainly not the argument you may have read into it. Merely a truth for a big majority of people with Western/European family names. I did keep my “own” name btw. My daughters have that name, and my sons have their father’s.

Never meant it to be a “zinger” wow. But did want to open up the conversation, and looks like that part worked, anyway.

we could put all of our “daughter-of” names into a bar code and then have it translated to speech? :3 I’d go for that!

hey. Never said it’s bad to keep your family name. Just recognizing a fact. Do with it what you will. (and upset all kinds of apple-carts! Well-behaved women rarely make history) :-)

Hi :-) I never said it was “silly” to keep your family name, only that it’s highly probable the family name is from a male line. You can do with that what you will (maybe even go back really far and find your original female-line name, or keep the one you’re born with, or make one up, who cares?).

@Rachel Vorona Cote - I read down through every comment and nobody mentioned this: The majority of Western women who keep their original family name upon marriage are still keeping a name of the male lineage.

The guy in the stock photo looks like a smaller version of Alexander Skarsgård, and I thought “Oh no, poor Eric Northman!”

oh hush (puppy)

I like ambient. very little/no vocalizations to intrude on my own narrative (inner or otherwise)

My grandma used to use a little teeny brush to dig out the last of her lipstick (she went through a lot of lipstick!) but yes, product is less nowadays. However, considering that lipstick does age, and bacteria gets in it, probably best that we use it quickly and re-purchase.

and those two guys were Popeye and Bluto. :-|

I once got irrationally (internally) angry at a woman I saw on the bus. She was with a friend and he was holding her and stroking her hair like she was the most precious thing on the face of the planet and he was gonna protect her with his life or something.

This is all wonderful, but what about Molly Solverson (Alison Tolman)?? I need her. She’s the best.

you mean Gugu Mbatha-Raw? She’s not very well known in the US but has quite a career in British theatre and film.

Rhubarb leaves are toxic to humans. (cooked rhubarb stems are ok, though)
Perhaps bear smelled the rhubarb and left it for us, for bear reasons.

:-( yeah, I know. One had dementia and the other was recovering from surgery. Still, I find it poignant and like the explanation given on the wiki page:
“About the song, Scalzo said that “It’s a romanticized take on what happened” - he “pictured them taking off to have fun, like they did when they first met.””