The Finchbro was a leashed child. It saved his life more times than I care to count.

I don’t know whether to flinch or respect that stone cold pragmatism.

I gave the young daughter of a frenemy a battery-operated toy dog that, when pushed in the tummy area, played “Who Let the Dogs Out” repeatedly and incessantly.  Needless to say this was unsubtle payback for an untold number of slights.

I’m 54, and I remember it clearly - though not as clearly as when Princess Diana was killed, when my brother called me and told me and I refused to believe him because such things did not happen. But I am an old and Canadian to boot, so the loss of JFK Jr. was a news story/terrible, avoidable mistake and nothing more.

Runner up would be the T-Rex attack in Jurassic Park

Take your stars.

Your head and my head and the heads of so many others.

It’s her narrowed eyes: “What is that on his head?  Has he killed a badger?”

A definite improvement!

Eh, I’m an old lady.  It will match my hair.

Heh, one of my friends described her bedroom at the time as “Laura Ashley walked in and threw up.”

WITH REASON.

I haven’t brought out my ballroom shoes (black satin with sparkly buckles, three-inch heels, cost me several hundred in dolla dolla bills) in years but I will dust them off for Channing Tatum. I bet he would never drop me during a dip in the tango (which my former partner did, and I kicked him in the shins as soon as I…

Thank god I’m not the only one.

I adore him. That scene in Magic Mike, when he gets all dressed up in the suit and glasses and goes to the bank ... it broke my heart.

if you still have the lime green or avocado models from either era, they’re likely to go another 50 years

My name is mrsfinch, and I concur entirely with this post.

Your mom is amazing! and, like the Queen, also in better shape than I am.

I am Canadian, so I am all about that sweet sweet universal health care. And I need it, because even the 93-year-old Queen’s in better shape than I am.