The same thing happened with me, except it was over dresses. Goddammit I hated dresses when I was a kid; I was a tomboy. The materials were always scratchy (the 90's, the era of cheap lace), they got caught in everything, and worst of all it made everyone treat me like a GIRL. Also, tights. Ugh. The last picture…

Grandma did her increasingly-predictable drug-store shopping spree and sent up to us several varieties of Christmas-themed wine-bottle huggers. My mom got her second light-up snowman hugger, and I got a santa-sweater hugger, complete with little sleeves (wine bottles have arms sometimes, right?) and a hat. They were…

I'm straining to remember the last time I heard Doctor Demento on full-blown Holiday Radio Rotation. I suspect never. I think THAT is the point of this worst-ever: brain-numbing, not demented.

The Airline Pilot blog over on Slate has the most hilarious/awful story about the Little Drummer Boy. Now whenever I hear that song I will think of that story, and depending on my mood will be unable to either stop laughing or stop screaming.

I'm with DBDoo on this. When I was a kid I was always pretty well-behaved, never minded sitting still for long rides or plane trips, was responsible for myself, and was rarely cranky about anything. So much so that I was flying solo by age 5. Incidentally, I was the bookwormiest kid ever.

"I honestly think that if you already have a desktop in your house or a laptop, a tablet is kind of redundant."

The difficulty lies in that some of the constituents in the waste (not all of which are actually radioactive - there's a fair amount of sand, organic compounds, regular ol' rust, etc.) are really hard to remove from water. Running the sluiced waste through a recycling system would have left some of that stuff in…

Doomtooth, clearly you don't have an appreciation for how difficult it is to dispose of this waste. I'm an engineer out here at Hanford and am involved with WRPS (not on this project specifically), and I can tell you, the waste chemistry, the fact that most of what they were doing at the time was experimental, and…

I have two purebred beagles. While they are not well-behaved (very typical of the breed) they are attentive, active, fun, handsome, low-grooming-requirements dogs with great personalities and no health problems other than minor allergies. I'm glad I made the extra effort for them.

My parents swear that I never did that when I was little. They was one of those sensible sets of parents who didn't drag their kids on every little chore until we were old enough to know how to behave ourselves, though, and I was an oddly "adult" kid who found other kids noisy, immature and annoying. My brother,…

Agree. A lot.

I wash most of my clothes in cold. In addition to being more energy efficient, it also helps your clothes live longer and keep their colors (also, skip the fabric softener, it makes fibers prone to tearing).

Uh, Jesus, I almost feel like this one is really obvious, but just to check...you haven't spent much time as a woman, have you?

Hm... I wonder if this is compatible with my home theater S-AIR system? Is AIRPLAY just a new name for S-AIR? I have two sattelite sets already but I'd love one with a battery.

Beagle freaking out for no reason?

"Because so little is expected of "chick flicks" and tearjerkers, I doubt anyone will acknowledge the dangerous message One Day lobs at its young and susceptible target audience."

Stacy,

The EPA primarily protects the environment from people...but we can't all stop pooing. You want the department of Health and Human Services, or possibly the FDA or CDC (the latter only if there's shown to be a serious problem.)

Huh, apparently I sound a lot like a fake review... (use exclamation points, "I", "me" and "we", lots of adverbs).

Unfortunately, the part of the building that would likely be the coolest to see blown up (all the glass) will probably be removed before they demolished the building, as glass shatters unpredictably, and small particles getting into everybody's lungs and eyes is a huge hazard.