I think this is why a lot of folks really liked her. Even if you weren’t actually Barb growing up, we all know how she felt, being the one on the outside looking in, but not even really sure if you wanted to be “in”, and identified with her on some level.

She looks vaguely like Courtney Cox in the cover shot.

I came down here to say “Well, at least from the cake we now know Blake is a HUGE Steel Magnolias fan. I hope it was red velvet” and I’m shocked I had to come this far down to find another reference.

I immediately thought about the scene where they explicitly say all the dinosaurs are female, that way they can’t breed.

I get bitten in my bedroom- the little bastards find their way in somehow and feast while I sleep.

I use this too. I don’t know why it works, but it does, so I don’t question it too much.

My dad is the same way! He gets bitten and nothing happens. Could I inherit that gene? No, apparently not, I got the super hairy leg gene instead. I kinda hate you both.

I think also, given that she really does push her own ideas and not really worry about staying “popular” or “sellable,” her collections are a little more hit-or-miss. She really doesn’t care if ONE season doesn’t work financially if she really loves the concept.

Also all of a sudden you’re everyone’s favorite niece, cousin, grandchild, Godmother etc. etc.

That’s what we used to do at my old office. Though it was always the same woman who collected the money, she was the only one willing to take the responsibility.

You can’t collect anonymously in CA, I’ve checked. If you wait a little while, though, the level of publicity is innately lower because everyone forgets about that kind of thing pretty quick.

You know, though, if it really is a jackpot THAT ridiculously huge, I would probably buy myself one huge, stupidly impractical luxury. Maybe not a car, but something frivolous. Why not? I have enough to be responsible with the rest of it tomorrow. :)

If I ever won I would wait at least a week, probably two before claiming. Let everyone forget about it and, yes, let me call a lawyer and accountant because apparently I now need them.

I had a COP tell me that.

I could see live public streaming becoming a privacy issue, not for the cops, but for the people they are talking to. Your boss sees you getting questioned in regard to a bar brawl even if you were just standing by the door when it started? That could make your life difficult and it shouldn’t have been public record.…

Or call int he break, let the camera be remotely paused or whatever, call in when you’re done, camera back on. the tape will show you entering and leaving the john, if it’s more than five minutes you better also have tape of the delux chimichanga meal that kept you offline for so long.

I see the main problem as: if you aren’t helping push out the bad apples you’re halfway to rotten yourself.

It could also be as simple as with a room that packed and a trial this public he wasn’t interested in giving anyone any second chances on nonsense.

I kinda think he has a confidence thing, especially in how he carries himself when he walks, that makes you give a second look before actually taking in how he really looks.

I totally get this. I had a couple friends-of-a-friend pass away a little while ago and I have weird feelings about it. I knew enough about them and spent enough time with them to know they were both really great people, and to have some fond memories, but we never quite jumped the “friend-of-a-friend” category. Now…