And then consider that potato blight led to mass starvation a mere 250 years after that introduction. Now obvs, food distribution had as much to do with that as food production, but still.

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This was my exact thought.

Especially if you love men in turtlenecks.

Were I a dentist, I would not want the people whose mouths I had to stick my face in pounding coffees in my waiting room.

I concur. Works great with cat hair and tracked litter. As I already alluded, does not work well with surprise messes that cats like to leave around the house.

I concur. Works great with cat hair and tracked litter. As I already alluded, does not work well with surprise…

I’d like to tell y’all a little story entitled, “The Day My Cat Shit Outside the Litter Box and Roomba Ran Through It and Tracked It All Over the Goddamn House.” It’s a cautionary tale. I’m still working on the title.

I’d like to tell y’all a little story entitled, “The Day My Cat Shit Outside the Litter Box and Roomba Ran Through…

Original Wonder Woman. Those aren’t Ds, son.

I’ve got a Masters in Childrens Literature, so I am biased in saying it is worthy of serious study, but I can see how you’d have trouble. Maybe you could pair it with something like The Heart of Darkness.

How am I being simple?

I should add, I actually really like the book PP. It’s definitely problematic, but the narrative voice is so engaging. On pure literary merits, it blows The Wizard of Oz out of the water.

In the same way that the Africans visited by Mary Poppins in the original version of her eponymous tome inexplicably speak in a horrible Southern-American minstrel dialect, the native peoples of Neverland are most definitely Indians of the Americas, regardless of location.

Just type all your responses in l33t.

Thank you!

You seem like you could answer my question. How do they know that it is water making those slope lineae and not another liquid?

Most educated populace in America.

I’m currently trying to buy a house in Cranston. If successful, I may need to be sterilized. The world doesn’t need more people who sound like that.

Oh, my Worcester grandmother said that. Does he also say “hoff” for “have”?

I’ll see your creepy bivalve eyes, and I’ll raise you.

While “First in a new series!” is typically viewed as a selling point by the publishing industry, I’ve been distressed many times to hear people saying things like, “I won’t start reading a series until it’s complete.” (Not suggesting you are saying this.) Just a friendly reminder from a former SF/F editor that if you…