The Royal Family at the time has already made an appearance on “Downton Abbey.” Rose briefly becomes chummy with Prince Edward (portrayed by an actor who looks nothing like the man who briefly became King Edward VIII) and is presented at Court to a couple of actors who look nothing like King George V and Queen Mary.

But what happened to the Sussex’s sustainable drought-resistant “Africa”-theme garden? Two or three months ago “royal watchers,” who threw in plenty of references to Markle’s racial background, were agog that the American upstart would pull a stunt like that. Of course the plans were a huge hit among people living in…

Imagine being one of those T-Rexs. Were they monogamous? Let’s say they were. Mommy Rex and Daddy Rex are getting ready to hatch Baby Rex and Realtor Rex moves them into a nest that seems nice enough, but unbeknownst to the new tenants is plagued by bedbugs. Lawyer Rex gets involved, but by that time Realtor Rex has…

I’ve very sorry. It is a horrific experience to go through.

I have lived your dream.

I doubt much would shock the Queen at this point. She’s been on the throne for longer than most of us have been alive. She’s allowed to, and indeed is kind of called by duty to, learn everything she can about the various governments that have risen and fallen under her reign, and those governments did not lack for,…

And giant clocks. And signs with various verbs and nouns on them, like “EAT!” in a kitchen and “LOVE” in any and every room.

I have a good second-hand original (1969) Woodstock story to share. A work colleague/buddy of mine told me that when she was in her 20s she was a bridesmaid in a wedding. They all lived in the area so they knew Woodstock was happening but no one knew how big it would be. So on the way to the wedding she, the bride,…

I once got tipsy with my mother-in-law. It was pleasant for both of us, she rarely drank and I drank like a fish. She asked me (early on in my relationship with her son, sizing me up) if I had ever smoked marijuana. “Well, yes, in high school, but never in college, they were very strict about that. It was a Catholic…

Glad you enjoy them! We all have interesting stories and I wish Jezebel commenters would share more. 

Rub it in, why don’t you. There they are, a loving mother and her two children on the Great Wall of China (I assume; what else could it be.) Meanwhile we’re stuck with a president who doesn’t even pay lip service to the fact that he has a (third) wife and five children. Well, Ivanka, of course, is the exception, but…

I’m more disturbed by the amateurishness of the design layout of this leaflet. You have brilliant graphic designers in Britain, and I would imagine many lean Left/Labour. Couldn’t someone have taken on a freelance/volunteer weekend job and made this look somewhat better? Or is Corbyn going for the circa 1970s “Soviet…

Oh please tell me that during the Doris Day marathon you were at “The Man Who Knew Too Much” point, and Doris was belting out “Que será, será.”

The one snarling into the comically large phone seems to be suffering from especially acute economic anxiety, or something.

I have an older brother who’s like this. He’s a little knowledge-insecure (trade school, and has always made a good living, good for him) and likes to belittle me. And we’re not young. He’ll say, “You know a lot of useless information. Do you know why...” and I’ll say, “Well, if it’s so useless, why are you asking?…

Oh, Baba, we will meet in real life, I’ll take a sacred vow. I will bring you overfilled plastic cups of wine, as many as you need. I’ve spent decades ferrying drinks from a bar, and I’ve never worked food service, just for my own enjoyment and that of my companions, if the place doesn’t offer table service.…

Another rambling anecdote.

Anything and everything by Alfred Hitchcock. There’s lots of suspense but very little gore. He was a genius at evoking menace. 

The SA sent an appraiser over to us too but more to estimate how much space this furniture would take up in the truck, the one that never showed up.

Yes, and in my response to VtDkDude I didn’t want to go down that path, because there is a subset of Jezebel commenters whose knowledge of British Royal nomenclature is encyclopedic.