How would you know, Molly, whether it's embarrassing to pick up Viagra from the pharmacy?!

was just thinking exactly this!

So just for your diaries - today marks the day where the opinion pendulum swings back...

Honi soit qui mal y pense...

I just spit out my coffee - where, for the sake of all things funny, is this from??

Is it wrong to feel smug for not being in 'social media' every time I read something like that?

You could have called your dog your mother's maiden name, though...

If I had read this comment in the morning, I'd have coffee all over my keyboard...

Nice piece - informative, and well written. And extra thanks for an article without typos!

Good grief, this is a typical case of looking at something historical through today's glasses, with the result of some pseudo-spectacular distortion. Antibiotics weren't available yet at that time. And chalk and opium is essentially an early form of loperamide. Cannabis & chili makes sense for colics - it's…

"Hey, aluminum recycles!" ... and that's why it annoys me when people toss their beer/soda cans into the 'regular' trash bin.

For linear acceleration, yes, but for rotational acceleration it's really only hair cells in the ampulla of the semicircular ducts.

Agreed. But, you know, thinking about the environment requires, uhmm, thinking, and for most people that's a terribly inconvenient thing to do.

...for the Midwest you need to also implement 'pothole rapid avoidance' programming, as well as a 'flipping-off-the-Ford350-dual-tire-guy-who-cuts-you-off-just-to-show-who's-boss-in-the-carstate' mechanism.

It's kind of hard mapping all the rest of the ocean, you know... It's wet, dark, no wifi, and no beer.

Question now is how the inventor of animated gifs gets killed. Because he MUST be killed.

Me too. Now - does 'knowing' you make me un-weird (and vice versa)? After all (-) x (-) = (+).

Yeah.... riiight.

I don't think that has to do anything with being picky. It's more about producing something which is 'good'. If you're in the writing business, do it well, both in terms of your research, and your grammar, and spelling. Just because it's free, it needn't be shoddy.

You forgot the Autobahn, as well as Kaffee und Kuchen.