So those summer camps do work.

Wait till you cut out Galapagos turtle eggs!

It was meant in a friendly way! Plus, ‘rutabagas’ is an endlessly funny word.

Cut out all rutabagas!

Laugh if you will, there are not only covert vowels - there are audible vowels that aren’t really there.

My kids ate vegetables when they were toddlers.

No, I want to see the movie “SATC V. DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES.”

YES. Lynne Cox is amazing, and that book is a thrilling read.

That sounds very plausible, actually.

Congratulations, that’s an awesome achievement!

I’m an avid albeit terrible runner, and my 5k is exactly twice 17:00 :)

Same.

I couldn’t agree less. I really like the Klingon scenes, but I think the show’s focus is elsewhere - in a classic ST way, on exploring what people do in all sorts of situations - and a big expository dump would reduce the mystery of the Klingons.

BAD

How dare you expect paid writers to know stuff like that, you elitist monster.

Hi, I don’t think that she was eluding anyone or anything. I mean, maybe she was, but it’s more likely that she was alluding to something.

I know this is off-topic, but you just nearly brought tears to my eyes, because I just saw the episode of TNG where Jean-Luc mind melds with Sarek, and I swear that Jean-Luc Picard > Obama+Bartlett and why can’t we have him for president.

It was a jokey ref to a dumb but funny recurring sketch on Conan O’Brien, where someone would make predictions about the year 2000. This continued until around 2008 or 2009.

This will continue until the year 2000.

I stayed at one like that in Texas. It was fine, but indeed boring. And my co-renter took the ‘no party’ rule literally, and wouldn’t let anyone come over. Soulless house meets anal renter.