Hey, editing for effectiveness is a valuable skill!

Google Docs has a ton of font choices, some of which are not bad at all. But you have to know how to navigate the crappy menus to get to them. So really what you’re doing is saying “Look Indy, you’re a good kid, but you need to stop showing off your arrowhead that you swung on a vine across a ravine to recover.”…

I remember as a kid really liking a font called Lucida Handwriting

But you can’t make that horse earn it’s A.

The highlight of my academic career was a venerated, 75+ scholar presenting a rant about people who over-use jargon via. a classic 2003 WordArt powerpoint. She was the best.

We had a class in middle school where we had to make little stop animation videos, and the teacher was frustrated beyond belief that we all insisted on playing with the credits, with jokes and crazy effects and everything. “Just your name and the title! That’s all you need! Please stop making them longer than the…

*Flashback!*

For some cool design tips, you mean?

Haha.

My favorite English teacher ever (7th and 8th grade), gave us a spec list of what he expected our papers to look like, and showed us how to make that happen in word. I think he refused to accept assignments that didn’t conform to the guidelines:

I must have been an odd kid, as my favorite was Georgia and other stuffy faces. I currently try to use Palantino Linotype with all ligatures turned on everything, as it’s the only oldstyle in which ligatures are evident (not sure why I can’t get any out of Constantia, another favorite).

When I was in 6th grade I had just discovered WordArt and my teacher could pry it from my cold, dead hands. If the title is not ‘3D’ and in rainbow colours, IS IT EVEN A TITLE?

Oh bless their hearts. They sound so precious.

Nina yes!

I hate seeing screenshots where people have changed the phone’s text so that it is all in that scripty font from your second example. Those people are the real serial killers.

Speaking as a labor and delivery nurse, there are probably a lot of thing going on that you don’t know about. Maybe she had been ruptured for an extended period of time. Maybe she’s GBS positive. Maybe she’s not dilated in the slightest and only having contractions every 10 minutes. Most obstetric RN’s are strong…

Yeah, I just figured I’d get whichever OB was on call. (I delivered in a local hospital) But then they said I could have the midwife and I was like, “YES!” It was just her and one other nurse and me and my husband in the delivery room. She was so calm and used oils to help with stretching/tearing and just let things…

You said: “The answer was, of course, Kevin Durant.”

And the Color Purple. And the BFG. And Jurassic Park (the true stars, Dinosaurs, were all female).

I’m an entomologist and I work with that beautiful specimen you have pictured, Ae. aegypti. To maintain a colony in the lab, I will sometimes have to feed them by sticking my arm into a cage and letting them go to town. My best advice to avoid getting a reaction is to NOT SCRATCH no matter how much they itch. Once you…