I'm all in favor of legal intervention. Keep unvaccinated kids out of school, require doctors to vaccinate before giving any other medical treatment, hell I'd even support full-on criminalization, classifying non-vaccination as child abuse. But until we pass such laws, in their absence, persuasion is the only tool we…

Except that it's not the way to change minds. If you yell at someone and make them feel defensive, they're only going to dig in their heels more. There have been tons of psych/behavioral studies that show this. During the Portland water fluoridation debate last year, I watched several otherwise smart, rational and…

I used to wonder the exact same thing...

Thank you! It has definitely become legend, oft retold and passed down in the years since it happened, among my friends. (There were a lot of us out that night.)

I'm sure there's *some* context where that could be sexy, if done right. This was not it.

Is that a selling point, somehow? They'd probably smell bad too!

Late '90s, driving a rental car full of IKEA through NYU, trying to make a left onto Third Ave. Except I can't because there's this idiot in a long leather jacket with a Caesar haircut standing in the middle of the crosswalk, fiddling with his cellphone and NOT MOVING. "Get the fuck out of the way, you goddamn Rob…

Cheesy.

Oh, those famous people out of context. I once served Julia Child in a store and didn't know it was her. Julia Child! Ten feet tall with the most distinctive voice ever! I thought it looked like her, I just didn't expect Julia to be buying thread in a suburban strip mall. I even remember thinking when she spoke,"Huh,…

That was my first thought, too!

Direct quotes, I promise. They're seared into my memory. I was all, what are we, 12?

Oh yeah, he's the worst like that. I stopped the story at the punch line, but it didn't actually end there. Later in the evening he grabbed my tits while I was looking away and didn't see him coming, and stuck his tongue in another friend's ear. Eater once ran a contest similar to this one, except specific to…

While at the bar in the front room of the Tribeca Tavern, I noticed Mario Batali talking with a small group. As I rejoined my friends in the back room, I mentioned this sighting to my foodie friend.

I think she might do secret things to him with the ukulele.

Not even anchovies?!

Pineapple/banana peppers/ham, or spam if you want to make it Hawaiian.

Except it's not. "Peperoncini" is already plural; "peperoncinis" is double-plural and super-annoying. Possibly even more annoying than eliding a syllable.

Right?! I feel like if they put the tip out early, I should just pick it up right away. After all, it would be both rude to ignore it, and unhygienic to leave cash on the table with food.

Agreed. It seemed to me in that story that the server was purposely goading the customer. You have a poorly functioning speaker; the regulars know that but how would a non-regular know? So because she's trying to get a response, the server has already decided to fuck with her order and give her decaf regardless of…

God I want cigarettes. I've been resisting during the whole storm prep. Gas up? No smokes! Supermarket? Skip the cigs! I really hope that the corner store will be closed by the time I go stir crazy tomorrow and take a walk over.