@feistymama77: I am so sorry for your family's loss. What a horrible thing to drive a man to do.

@likepenguins: mmmmmmmm.... now i'm hungry. baaaacon!

The last time I heard about hedgehogs was as a constant teaser on BBC World news ("next up hedgehogs!" "baby hedgehogs right after the break") which shows that they really are the cutest thing on the planet if even the BBC is willing to resort to local news variety style kickers just to constantly show footage of baby…

@alcibiades: Your SO has had dealings with the Wylie Agency hasn't he?

@LaFemme: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" oh wait, that poem kind of proves your point.

@nora charles: But you're quibbling over really little details. No one would argue that either of the two actresses in the BBC version of P&P aren't attractive, just over which girl is more so than the other. But that they are both attractive is undeniable.

@Calluna Vulgaris: That's the problem. The world of Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass isn't 'insane.' And considering that a fair amount of the population have probably never even read the source material and already think that it's all based on drugs... ugh.

I'm curious if Burton has ever read ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND or THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS because no one says that to survive in wonderland (or through the looking glass — two separate worlds, two different games) one has to be mad. The Cheshire Cat says that one must be mad to be here, but it's not madness…

Oh Penguin Illustrated Classics, you can do no wrong.

And this surprises anyone? Now excuse me, but I'm off to enjoy some french fries with gravy.

Question for Brits out there (because clearly women being seen drinking a proper pint of beer in America is not a problem): there's a chapter in Kate Fox's WATCHING THE ENGLISH that's about the rules of drinking for the different classes and how it does seem as if there are rules to what's proper for a woman to drink.…

@walnuts: Dear Walnuts, on this we'll agree to disagree as I happpen to like my guys in pink polo shirts.

@Ellabella: You know, I was just going to say that's funny because riding horses is a really risky activity, and lots of girls do that.

My favorite line of Juno was about how the hunky football player secretly was in love with the girl who played the cello, read McSweeneys and wanted to go to a liberal arts school. As a cello playing, McSweeneys reading, English BA holding woman, I can really appreciate that (although none of the football players were…

There's a boy from my hometown who is competing this year. This just warms the cockles of my geeky cold hearted heart.

@nora charles: best metaphor ever.

The Sesame Street special where Big Bird goes to the Metropolitan Museum, gets locked in over night and has to help a little egyptian boy go to the afterlife. I used to watch that one all the time.

Wait, this discussion should not be about how much we love doing laundry but about the joke Sarah Haskins makes at the end — that a man doing laundry is absurd but even more absurd would be if he reveled in it the way women are depicted in it in commercials.

@KiddyKat: Nay. It rains a lot, but it tends to be more heavy showers rather than days and days of rain.

@DinaRonson : Desperately Seeking Snark: the one time I used the lawn chair I was told you had to pay...