Oh, got it! That makes better sense. Might have been very delicious but not to the guy’s taste. He knew you were the bride, right?

My former neighbor’s dog ate (1) an entire loaf of bread, (2) a pound of butter including the paper wrapping, and (3) most of a tray of potu, before she was caught. The subsequent gastric disturbance was spectacular.

Please elaborate? Serious question — are they not necessarily supposed to taste good, in favor of their appearance? This is something I did not know! I would be very disappointed if I got undelicious cake at a wedding.

How did this guy get elected? Right after Pope Palpatine? I’m sure it is DEEPLY uncomfortable for people like Timothy Dolan, being forced to deal with the wide gap between their SOP and Cool Pope’s statements. Cool Pope is still a Catholic, of course, and has made many pronouncements I disagree with strongly, but it’s…

This might be useful information. A couple of weeks ago my asshole gardeners (I rent, I didn’t hire them) filled the yard waste bin so full with wet, heavy yard waste, Waste Management refused to take it — they left a notice on it that it was “overweight” and “contaminated”. I couldn’t budge the thing, even to get it…

I have my mom’s wedding ring (married in the 1930s), which is basically diamond chips in a pave-type setting, and my grandmother’s (probably married in the 19teens), which is a plain but substantial gold band, with my grandparents’ initials engraved inside. If I personally were going to wear one, I’d want a plain…

As I read this I look up above my desk and see the Pillars of Creation, or as I everyone refers to them, “Space Penises.” I LOVE the pictures we get now, of remote and ancient space.

An argument could be made that anyone who worked in any capacity that supported the German government during those years was supporting murder. From the “Nazi marathons” I’ve had on in the background on various channels on weekends, it seems that the decision was made at the end of the war to prosecute the…

A guy at work was doing this bit where he maintained every question could be answered by, “bend over and I’ll show you”. Minor laughs. “What’s wrong with this copier? Bend over and I’ll show you.”

I’ve been watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea lately on some random channel, and despite the SUPER crazy plots (last weekend it was an alien lobster man come to destroy Earth for...reasons — the costume was fab):

I had an independent frame shop hang onto a baby picture of my mother — it was 90 years old and the only copy that existed in the world — for over six months, with every excuse in the world why he hadn’t finished the work. I’d actually moved 200 miles away in that six months, and I could not get the guy to return a…

Completely agree with you. I may in fact BE you.

Climate change deniers are VERY THREATENED by the idea that there’s a problem in the world that cannot be solved by Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand. If we as a species acknowledge that the free market will continue the burning of coal until we all starve to death (except the Bushes and their kind living in Costa Rica, or…

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When people interrupt me, they no longer get to hear whatever I was going to say. Sometimes the self-aware among them will come out with, what were you saying [before I so rudely interrupted]? And always say, “oh, nothing much”. They have lost the right to hear my insightful thoughts! The self-aware and considerate…

“Looking for trouble” what Critical Mass seems to be all about. Certainly the case the two times I’ve encountered them, once in San Diego once in Seattle. As a strategy to influence others on the road/public policy this seems...counterproductive

Bakersfield.

Mileage varies regarding funny. “Celebrated” doesn’t, IMO, enter into it. I can celebrate her tenacity and courage and success without finding something like this hilarious: “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens”. Or, a much more characteristic joke: “If Kate Winslet…

Or be funny in a non-gross way. Remember Carson Kressley? He managed it. I think mostly the people on the show in later years weren’t real fashion people as much as reality TV veterans and fame whores. And aside from Joan, not very bright. I completely agree with all your points — even in the Joan days I was just…

After she died there were pictures of her unbelievable apartment in NY. I’ve never seen anything like it — a mansion inside an apartment building (or condo, I guess), 5000+ SQ, put on the market for $25M. Her entire estate was reported to be $150M. She obviously had non-financial drivers making her want to keep…