Good points all around!

Re: John Hamm

Woo, I'm not sure if I'm using the new system correctly — this may end up lost in the internet ether (or on my new blog that I apparently have now?)... if I *do* do this wrong, I'm trying to reply to user shockwaver. Here goes nothing...

Go fuck yourself.

Yeah, she's the one I always completely forget when I try to name them all. "Let's see, we have Scary Spice, Baby Spice, Snooty Spice, Redhead Spice... and... um... Sneezy Spice?"

THAT IS JUST WRONG.

It is WAY too early for you to be blowing my mind like that.

Preach!

Only if you steal it first. We wouldn't want the company to believe there's a non-ironic market for this shit. ;)

Here, here. Let's go back to bed. :/

Ugh. I hate those. I get the joke and all, but it just seems really creepy to equate sexual terms with breastfeeding.

Everyone, thank you SO MUCH for all of these informative responses! I got so many that I got overwhelmed! XD Pardon me for not replying to everyone individually, but these lit papers won't write themselves. Thank you all again!

Apparently, I really like coming to these open threads (internet) years after the fact. :) Here's my two cents:

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