“67 copies of Moby Dick”

My wife and I did this with both of our kids, highly recommend.

Our 6-year old gets $6/week, $2 is for spending on whatever he wants, $2 has to be saved for bigger purchases, and $2 goes to a charity of his choosing.

“I went to a D-III school and it had sports because sports are part of a good old fashioned physical education”

My wife’s grandmother once made a scene at a restaurant because everyone else at the table were served a pickle, but she wasn’t (she’d ordered soup).  The waitress ended up bringing her a pickle which she, of course, didn’t eat.

I think I remember seeing elsewhere that the team hadn’t brought a swimcap/hair cover since this kid had been wrestling with the same hair all season and nobody had said anything.

The ‘manhole’ thing is silly, but getting rid of he/his, policeman, fireman, etc in official documents is worth the minimal cost.  Nobody is clamoring to get the term ‘manhole’ changed, but if you’re going to go through all of these documents and make updates you might as well update everything.

I live in a town that just finished updating all of the gendered language in our town charter. We went with ‘utility access holes’, there was an explanation given as to why personholes wasn’t the right term, but I forget what it was.

Watched a little kid race the mascot at a college summer league game once and get absolutely blown away.

What the ‘Boston Accent 2' trailer needs is a scene where they agree to meet in Scituate and the spend 10 minutes trying to figure out how to spell Scituate.

I lived in a town that had it’s own ‘Museum of Waterfowl Art’ for two years and never got bored enough to visit said museum.

There was a version of baseball played in New England during the 19th century which had infinite field and no foul territory (the field when on infinitely in all directions).  Runners also didn’t have to stay in the base path.  A single out ended an inning and the first team to score 100 runs won.

Everything from Kerry is better.

I used to go jogging with my dog in the mornings.  We’d run a short loop a half dozen or so times (it was a circular side street just off the busy, sidewalk free, street we lived on).  He’d usually poop on the first lap and I’d bag it and leave it there until the last one.

Followed by “Why would you want to go to school in Iowa?”

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When I was in high school I wrestled for a couple off-seasons at a gym run by an old Russian guy. He’d insist that if you took a shot in the nuts you needed to jump on your heels on a hard floor. Imagine the Russian accent yelling: “No! not on mat! hard floor only! works like magic”. It took a couple years be he…

Independent and summer college league games are the best, especially with kids. You can usually park close (and for free), tickets are cheap and there are constantly doing promotions to make them even cheaper, food is reasonable, and you can sit right on top of the action.

Seriously with the tooth brushing!  My 5-year old nephew was sleeping over a couple weeks ago, bedtime rolls around and I’m like “Ok kids, time to go brush your teeth” and he, with a straight goddamn face, tells me “My mom says I don’t have to brush my teeth”.  I just lauphed and politely told him I didn’t give a shit.

In high school I wrestled at an off-season club run by an old Russian coach.  Everytime someone got a nutshot he’d insist, with a strait face, that the best thing for the pain was to jump on your heals on a hard floor (“not on the mat! only works on hard floor! is like magic!”) and then just giggle to himself at how…