If you gave up red meat can’t you still eat ham? I thought the National Pork Council (or whoever) taught us that pork was the other white meat. I’m being a little sarcastic.

Someone once told me that RuPaul, of all people, is very shy and self-conscious when he’s not his RuPaul persona. You are not alone!

I had a friend whose mother had a very violent temper, used to scream obscenities at her son at the drop of a hat, in front of anyone, she didn’t give a flying…fig…and once she screamed at him that he was a son of a bitch. And he replied quite enthusiastically, “Yes, I am!”

If the provenance of the name weren’t so awful I would choose “clowns_whore” as my next screen name the next time I lose my burner key. Although with all the kinja rumblings who knows if there will be a next time.

I love Italy, try to go as often as possible, but never buy clothes there because it’s just as bad for men, unless you’re buying a custom suit. My husband is a clotheshorse but he’s over six feet and muscular and I don’t think any department store in the entire country sells anything that would fit him. I’m even…

Sounds like you were rocking the Kim Davis look years ahead of time.

I have a male friend who is just the opposite, very small, like 5’ tall. As an adult he saves a ton on clothes but he has to shop very selectively because even something like a simple gray sweater bought in the boys’ department looks different than what you’d find (and pay 3-4 times for) in the mens’ department. I…

I wonder what the women are talking about? They sure seem pretty jazzed up to be at a Tupperware party. Maybe they’re speculating about whether Tupperware or sealed tin cans would make better containers for their fallout shelter provisions.

Do you remember the SNL parody from the first season, where they’re pot growers I think? I still remember Jane Curtin’s face as she belts out the song.

My high-school age niece is quite sporty and is always complaining that teammates swipe each others’ water out of desperation if the venue doesn’t have a bottled water vending machine. I know what I’m getting her for Christmas!

Wonkette, which I just learned recently was created as a Gawker site, was sold many years ago. I have been reading Wonkette since about 2006 and never knew this. So Gawker should morph into Wonkette, something once founded by Gawker itself? The same way that Millihelen is being closed down so that Jezebel can become…

Somewhere, in the thousands of comments on but no official posts about the Gawkerverse carnage, Mr. Pinkham said that BCO would carry on, just not under the Gawker umbrella. I think he has until the end of the month here maybe?

Maybe the red panda could get a job hostessing at La Merde Sur Mer or whatever the Vanderpump restaurant is called. And, in the way that Lucy Ricardo always tried to snag gigs at Ricky’s ultra-glamourous Copacabana nightclub, you could devise wacky schemes to get face time on Vanderpump Rules. I would watch!

Your sister has a (kind of) monogrammed thermos?!?!

Redacted! It actually is “A Moveable Feast” but if you were to write it now in another context it would be “movable,” like “lovable”, not “loveable.” Sorry if anyone read my ignorant comment in the last two minutes.

Maybe the customer was a relative of Mary Poppins and inherited her carpetbag, or bought it at a yard sale or at the Portobello Road market or somewhere? Poppins could pull a seven-foot-tall coat/hat rack out of that thing; I’m sure there’d be room for a sword.

Wonkette is good for politics; its founder was a woman and its current Executive Editor is. Not that that should really matter…The Hairpin is also good, it’s like what Jezebel is/was to Gawker The Hairpin is to The Awl. The Awl was founded by two Gawker alumni and quite a few Gawker staffers originally came from the…

But how much could kitchenette cost? I guess maybe restaurants, especially chains, wouldn’t advertise on it, but I went back and saw that the second-to-last BCO story (posted 11/9) had 1862 comments. I would use that as a proxy for pageviews. The most recent one had even more, but that was posted after the news of the…

You’re in Australia, aren’t you? Do Australians wear elaborate hats and fascinators to weddings and horse races and cricket matches, like they do in Britain? You could buy one and pull it out as the occasion demands.

I think Phyllis Diller did.