With you it’s hornets; with me it’s bears.  I’ll gladly trade.

I think he’d be Prince Regent until majority.

Is the wife of the King actually called Queen? Or is that an unofficial honorific?

For me, it was Aunt Someone. I always will love her for that!

Absolutatively! Think of second dose side-effects as a ‘hazing’ you put up with to join the gang/club/fraternity/Boy Scouts. It’s the anticipation, not the side-effects that gets ya. But then you’re in, 100%.

We just don’t know yet. We, the vaccinated, are just part of the clinical trials, at this point.

I found the soreness of the 1st: > a flu shot, but < a tetanus shot.

My 30 YO daughter was down for two days - symptoms all over the map - fever, head & muscle-aches, tiredness and spaciness.

Naw. The chowder tank is a converted 275 gal oil tank...needs its own trailer.

Mrs 8 and I asked the doc not to tell us the sex of our first. We wanted the surprise. Lady8 was (maternal intuition!) convinced that #1 was a male, though she really wanted a girl.

Would you settle for a circle, or would you prefer a pentagon, hexagon, septagon or octogon?

Doubt they’ll sell as well as trucknuts.

“They probably think martini glasses do not look masculine.”

Never forget the classics!

I see the fake Doc is back (downthread).

Disgusting.

It took me years to understand this. I am of the population that doesn’t suffer from the asparagus thing.

As a muni employee/resident in my small town, when I hear that I chime in with, “Well, then, I guess I’m self-employed, then.”

I ran for SB President as a joke (I hung with the arts/musicians-crowd - what passed for geeks/rebels in my small Catholic HS back in the late 60s).

Municipal Land Use checking in: I always liked: ‘... a citation if a natural person’. And, yeah, we absolutely use ‘shall’ in all legal docs.