I can’t say why they choose the words they choose, but Facebook (and maybe Twitter too? I don’t use it) doesn’t have any way to do italic text, so one ends up resorting to caps or asterisks.

I would enjoy seeing you tell Billy Connolly this.

No. They lack the depth, the charm, and the warmth.

And men are REALLY bad with judging a woman’s weight. I mean really bad.

Nah, I think only Alfred Jarry or Bertold Brecht could do justice to this.

Maybe they’re broccoli.

A Google search suggests that coke dilates the eyes. Opiates constrict them.

I suspect folks like Trump, Bannon and Sessions don’t think there’s any such thing as marital rape.

His odd friendship with Martha Stewart is especially fun.

Damn, Pie’s more qualified to answer that question than I am. I just sort of picked up sewing here and there, learning a few basic mending stitches from my mom and then reading up on things as I tried stuff later.

I imagine a Google search on “kid’s sewing book” or “children’s sewing book” would be a good jumping-off…

She’s very cute, and I hope it’s nothing serious.

Don’t know if Pie-pie will be along for a craft thread, and I don’t want to usurp her just yet...

I did kill my multimeter kit when trying to desolder a bad connection— managed to remove the metal from the circuit board. At the urging of my husband I’ve bought a second kit— if nothing else, I know where some of the…

They’re probably claiming it now.

It’s a riff on an old, old British public house.
http://www.qwhdorset.co.uk/about/

I don’t know about their wisdom in having/raising children, but I for one would be more than happy to crowdsource your vasectomy, Mitch.

What a fine example of Backpfeifengesicht.

Now that I’ve recuperated some from the family visit, I’m putting in more time on the multimeter kit. No pictures ‘cause it’s not in a very visually interesting state at this point (just a circuit board in its holder, getting resistors and such soldered in).

I saw commercially available rose gummis:

The rhyme that the novel used as a motif was, alas, very old and therefore casually racist.