@Penny: Ha. I had that thought too. Although my prank radar is set pretty sensitive today.

@CherryBomb13: Kitty is clearly able to read, saw the title of that book and said "I'm having none of that." Rip, rip, rip.

I am the world's foremost expert on internet kid videos and I say that kid is in PAIN. What is wrong with you people?

Cotton advertisers:

When watching the Oscar red carpet stuff I had the thought that Miley Cyrus is like a charm/charisma black hole. She seemed so utterly devoid of either that she was sucking it right out of everyone around her too.

Hmm, so this leads me to believe that Elle asked designers such as Chloe, Lanvin and Hermes to send over some sizes that were not "sample" sizes and they actually did it. Hey, look Anna W, it can be done!

I love Irish dancing, I used to do it myself, but I think I have to be grouchy on the matter of the blinged out outfits and crazy wigs all the girls wear these days. No sir, I don't like it.

My grandmother was born and raised in Northern Ireland (a Catholic.) She had three children by an older man (my grandfather) out of wedlock. I don't know how old she was, but she was very young, a teenager I'm sure. I can't imagine the horrible ostracism she experienced as an unmarried mother with three children in…

Ooh, ooh, you know what you should do Jez Eds?! Have a commenter prom dress send-in, a la the diary and school pics that you've done in the past.

@BabyJane: Then we could have a debate about socialite-ized healthcare.

I take it, Rosemary Masic, that you also don't want anything to do with my large and healthy pay check then. Can do.

@andhowever: Yeah, a weight gain of 5-6 pounds over more than a DECADE doesn't seem like much to get into a twist about.

I've gotten to that age now where entire cultural phenomena can pass me by without my noticing. I've become one of those people who don't know what the kids are into these days. I'm pretty sure I once said to myself that I'd never become that.

I certainly don't want them to go extinct, but if I never had to see a millipede ever again, I'd be pretty happy.

@Highsmith: It seems that the fashion industry enables a lot of sleazy and unethical practices. This is the same industry that looks the other way on, or actively encourages, the exploitation and sexualization of minors, abhors diversity of all kinds, fosters eating disorders, and probably ignores, possible…

I'll give the INSA dung shoes a bit of a pass because, while undeniably heinous, they are more of an art thing than a retail item.

Willfully forgetting the existence latest Aniston bore-fest I totally thought it was going to be for a season premier of Dog: The Bounty Hunter.

@Tchotchke: And Cosmo 1989, at that.

@newmakcity: From a strictly scientific standpoint it actually isn't possible to definitively prove that carrots are better for you than donuts, because it's impossible to test that hypothesis. You couldn't conduct a clinical trial in which one subject was given nothing to eat but carrots and another nothing to eat…

@Lizard in the Wires - Please, call it hamburger time.: That's the smallest underarm bush I think I've ever seen. My own armpit hair seems to extend from my elbow to my waist and can get long enough to style if I let it, which I often do in winter. (Let it get long, not style it.) But the few dollars I spend on my…