Ah yes, the chunkachunk thing. I always name things I don't know the proper name of with onomatopoeia. I regret nothing.

Carbon copies are still around. Not common. While most of the shipping waybills where I work are for companies that have gone to carbonless copy paper, there are STILL SOME that have actual carbon paper which we occassionally have cause to use.

Fifteen years back, I used to babysit for a lady who called the remote a "surfboard," as in for channel surfing. I always found that delightful.

Except most cameras let you turn it off.

Ariel's in the wheelchair because she has a mermaid tail under the dress. No one can tell me differently.

This is pretty great. I'm used to being the one with the really weirdo upbringing when I talk to my peers about how we got sex ed. But that list is pretty close to what I actually got.

I totally remember being told "no, you keep your hands out of your underwear when you're in the living room." Frequently.

Coraline was a book I discovered in my early twenties, and I read it to my youngest sister who was about five or six at the time. She listened to the whole thing with eyes as big as dinner plates. A few times I asked, "Is this too scary?" and got "NO, KEEP GOING."

It's a lamec!

A few years back my mother sat down and watched all three movies, in fifteen or twenty minutes bits over the course of a weekend, often pausing to ask me questions because I had read the books. The best, by far, was "Sam and Frodo are gay, right?"

I can't get over the rat-controlled radio dial. This is adorable. I am extremely interested in the music preferences of rodents. If most of the rats preferred silence, does that mean there was one (completely sober) rat who liked Pink Floyd? I need to know these things.

Depends on diet, but yes, usually less mushy. Nice and neat little pellets.

Exactly. You can't have cities without creating an ecological niche for things to live in the cities eating our garbage. Hence, rats. They've been with us a long time and they're not going anywhere.

THANK YOU. I don't care about the knotting kink one way or the other but for crying out loud can we stop pretending that this has anything to do with actual wolf packs?

When I was a child, I got roped into a lego village game with my younger sisters which lasted several weeks, but they had already claimed most of the lego men. All I was able to find for my own use was a torso and a head with no hair.

Those are all pretty great things to play as. I still remember fondly when I, mid-twenties, was watching a documentary on TV about Mary Read and Anne Bonny, my much-younger sister (eightish, I think) wandered into the room, asked about what was on TV, watched for a bit, then had a whole afternoon playing…

I have had so many conversations with people, puzzled about my choice of pet, and I assure them that rats are friendly, they don't bite, they're very smart.

The difference is that while hamsters are solitary and highly territorial, rats are social and live in large groups, and pack animals tend not to eat each other as readily. Cannibalism among rats usually happens a couple hours after a member of the pack dies for another reason, like illness or injury. There are…

Rosehips are also good, but rose petals can be nice in a leafy salad. Also, it's worth knowing that Turkish delight is flavoured with rose water. It's not an uncommon flavour in food at all, especially in Persian and middle eastern cuisine.

It's estimated that 95% of people are naturally immune to leprosy. Do you feel lucky?