I alway trim a bit with a repurposed (and not used for its former purpose) beard trimmer, because although grasslands to desert looks odd, grasslands to Amazon rainforest is also a bit unnerving.

Tim Duncan may be Mr. Fundamental, but what he ultimately does on a basketball court is far beyond basic. Conversation is a ultimately a skill whose basics lie in common courtesy, and no matter what sort of conversationalist you will ultimately be, you will be better for being aware of the basics, whether you learned…

Honestly, following these rules exclusively assumes your partner is adept at conversation, and many people of both sexes aren’t. Another important rule is to answer questions in ways that re-engage the other person. A lot of boring, awkward conversations happen because both people are good at asking questions, neither…

He probably shouldn't have ordered stoned wheat and pound cake at the same time, retrospectively.

Must watch is a very relative thing, methinks.

The shaking described after the Cap’n Crunch was thrown was probably her rebooting after suffering catastrophic system failure. I can totally sympathize with “I forgot” and could partially sympathize with “I ‘forgot’”.

The use of evil in the service of good is still evil, sometimes. The ends do not always justify the means.

*Ground Cow

More lawyers in the social circle, more law lingo generally... Maybe? It moves from the professional jargon into the language of that professions social circle as metaphor. Bet you could make an interesting linguistic study about the connotations of metaphors like that as they differ between social groups. Also,…

Vaguely masturbatory fantasy?

Even odds. If he’s good at convincing people to try crappy stock, he’s liable to be good at convincing them to try crappy cock as well.

Counterpoint: these are rich (or rich-ish?) people, so lawyer metaphors are probably a larger part of the accepted vernacular than they would be otherwise.

Meet new boss, same as old boss with slightly different protrusions.

Roughly 3 metric fucktons, if my calculations are correct.

I'll rep for mosquito lady. Aromatic woodsmoke can be used to drive away mosquitoes, just like it can be used to add flavor to barbecue. The letter is great because I imagine the subject is aware of mesquite woodsmoke, but not its use in flavoring barbecue, while the letter writer is aware that mesquite is a barbecue…

I’m probably not going to make it in time to be the first proof of Pinkham’s Law, but mesquite wood smoke would be an effective and slightly more pleasant smelling means to drive off mosquitoes, and is probably used as such wherever you have easy access to mesquite wood and lots of mosquitoes.

You'd take a lotta drugs too if you had to fend off the horse-sized cockroaches with cypress spears and well thrown coconuts all night too. Just sayin.

Seriously though, what’s up with Sriracha (and more specifically the commonly marketed brand, not all sriracha’s are created equal I guess). Of all the garlic chili sauces that could catch on, the one that does is the one with, at least to my mouth, the least interesting flavor? Is it just marketing?

Technically the English common name is dolphinfish/dolphin, while mahi mahi is the Hawaiian common name. The range includes both the equatorial waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, so you’d expect there to be common names in plenty of languages. You see everyone call it mahi mahi because I can sell a dolphin sandwich…

Q: Whats the difference between dolphin and Mahi Mahi?