Definitely. I was 11, and was an advance reader, when I first encountered it. I read it for English class in 6th grade, then devoured the next two in the series. Years later, I tried to come back to the same environment and either the writing or myself was different enough that I didn’t connect with later…

Good point. I should have appended my comment with “... and the reason I keep drinking it is because it’s free at the office.” But that’s a little bit of a lie, because I still pay for it myself outside of the office sometimes. Of course, tea is free at the office, too....

I haven’t watched a single episode of this show, but this review, from a fellow Trekkie (or Trekker, whatever) has me pining for the eventual Disney buyout and subsequent story team to throw away “non-canon” sources like novels, comics, movies made with flare-o-vision, and television shows that launched a studio-owned…

Can we make sure that Jane Wiedlin reprises her role as the singing telegram girl? That brief scene always makes me laugh.

Time to booby-trap old war graves, I guess. Just like the curses and such of the Pharaohs.

You forgot to ask the real expert on these things. Art Fucking Bell. Hello?! THAT’S who you call!

I can drink black coffee these days, and I can drink Diet Coke, and I’ve never had a particular problem with seltzer, but... why would you bother imbibing something you don’t like, unless there’s some sort of peer pressure? The whole reason I drink coffee is because of peer pressure, honestly. But I’m getting better -…

I’m not sure if I’m a supertaster or not, but for my entire life, I’ve been extremely picky about flavors, so, maybe I am. Regardless, I could NOT drink black coffee for the longest time, and at some point I discovered the Cafe au Lait. Boom. Coffee drinker. Yay! I’m in the club. Then I had to endure no end of crap…

I would agree, except that every time I read something that uses thorn, like your sentences up there, I hear Sylvester’s voice from Looney Tunes. Þufferin’ þuccotash!

And watch for sepsis as a side effect. Seriously.

To be fair, she was wearing the diapers, to get there faster without stopping for a pee break. She was traveling from Texas to Florida, if memory serves.

That used to happen to a friend of mine - his number was similar to a popular business. After a number of wrong number calls (including a few in which he took orders for whatever the business did), he finally got caller ID when it was new, just so he could answer any unknown numbers with “City Morgue, you stab ‘em, we…

Even if you don’t live in the UK, using Mr. Cooper is just begging for being ignored. They used to be called Nationstar Mortgage in the US.

I keep getting emails from another person with my name, who lives across the country, and cannot figure out that his gmail address is not the same as mine. I get frequent “Welcome to [service]!” emails for this guy, and sometimes they’re potentially sensitive. I’ve gone so far as to call a company to tell them that…

Undo your undo. And it uses the letter before Z. Legendary.

Seriously, that Ctrl+F thing in Outlook is officially the worst.

Amen, sir. Amen.

That’s actually what we do - or well, my wife does. When there is a streak of yuck on the inside of the door, I know not to use anything within.

Oh, puleeeeez tell me that everyone did the “Oh baby” all tight-throated and awful. That sounds delightful!

Isn’t this the same guy that discovered a (fake) new planet and named it for himself? I can’t find any reference to it, now, but I’m pretty certain it was a west- or central-Asian dictator.