Several denominations within Christianity either do not believe in Hell, believe it's been misinterpreted and exaggerated, or do not ever talk about it. I'm a United Methodist and I never hear about Hell. There's a movie called "Hell and Mr. Fudge" about a fundamentalist preacher who studied his way out of…

Back in my dating days, I was attracted to short men, especially those who seemed to have a certain swagger. But they weren't attracted to me. I'm 5'6". I got my heart broken by several short men. It could have been the luck of the draw, but it sometimes seemed to me that the shorter the man, the more he seemed to…

Ha Ha I've done that before! It was a night of tornado warnings and I was afraid and he wasn't calling or texting to see if I was afraid or OK and little did I know he had left his phone at work, and didn't have a landline and didn't know my number anyway because smartphones take care of that. So I blew up his phone…

Apparently my mother did not know discharge was normal and was convinced I was sexually active.

Then you've probably puzzled over Caligula along with a lot of other historians. He supposedly started out as a good guy, became ill, and emerged from his illness as a monster.

I wish the girl code (and the guy code, for that matter) still included "Don't talk about parties/events that someone wasn't invited to right in front of them, gleefully." This is the national pastime where I work. I was brought up that it was impolite. At my workplace, I heard that managers were told not to have…

In my grandmother's day, towns were so small and people didn't move away to big cities much (they were more tied to the land) so you couldn't call "dibs" even to your sister. It was a normal thing for a guy to date one sister and end up marrying another sister. People's circles weren't big enough to call dibs. The…

I watch that! I want to know the story behind the psychologist host's stalking!!!!

There are people who talk too much, though. I was on a shuttle bus from a car dealership and this older woman kept up a running monologue the entire trip about how the paper-delivery-man didn't throw the paper in the right place. It just would not stop. I felt sorry for her family members. There are men who are…

I use Yahoo because I don't trust Google with my personal information. I figure Yahoo is too incompetent to mine my personal information in the first place.

In this year died King Alfred. He was a noble king and great. It is said that in his kingdom, a virgin might walk naked from one coast to the other and none dare molest her. — The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

I bet this would also be good with big ol' wide chow fun noodles.

One trip to Staropolska in Chicago and I will have you eating those words.

I agree. I knew some Amish girls who tore it up on the softball field in their dresses.

It wasn't a thing until some people discovered it makes some people insecure to act like it's some beauty standard, and then it was off to the races.

Am I to assume that male widowers (I know that's redundant) also stay unmarried the rest of their lives, because they wouldn't be virgins on their wedding nights should they remarry?

I don't think we'd all be slaveowners. Here's what my great-great-great-great grandfather did: he traded his cleared, agricultural homestead for a wooded lot and made wagon wheels. Not every location in the Old South lent itself to growing crops. From what I understand, it was the coastal rice plantations that made…

I think the unspoken fear is more of uprising, revolt, that sort of thing. Wherever there is slavery, there is constant fear that the slaves will rise up and exact revenge.

That's interesting, and very frustrating.

I also used to listen to The Progressive Geek's podcasts. He would always talk about this stuff, including bogus job ads meant to cover their asses, causing him to waste his time applying and going to interviews. Really sad. One time someone uploaded video (somewhere) of a law firm training I/T firms on how to…