She seems cool. I feel like we could be friends.

Oh man, yes. A hot voice gets me every time. Find me a dude with a deep, sort of raspy-sexy voice and I just want to be like— sit here, stare deep into my eyes, and NEVER STOP TALKING.

Does this go with that post on Velociraptor erotica from a couple weeks back?

Yeah. I still have moments sometimes where I doubt that someone could be interested in me (not helped by the fact that I've been living in Japan where everyone, it seems, is tiny and thin and perfectly coiffed at all times lol).

See also— Because: vampire! (aka "It's magic, OKAY!!")

Haha, I did get a big laugh out of that "they had drum kits in 1890?!"

Yes. The original MSW is so much a part of my childhood, that when I first heard they were remaking it, my gut reaction was just NOOOOOO.

It's true, there are so many moments like that in my mind, incredibly vivid just years later.

Is this the cue for someone to make a joke about WD-40 or greased hinges?

OK, so mine is not terribly scary and (probably) not ghostly but still kind of cool!

"Passions is on, and Timmy's down the well!!"

Soy cheese then? ;-p

No, but I majored in Egyptology basically, and studied hieroglyphs for all four years of college. Then went on to do... absolutely nothing related to that in my career, lol

Parasol Protectorate adaptation? I'd be all for that!

My Egyptology professor, explaining why one of the grad students was not going to be in our hieroglyphs class that semester because she had to take some anthro class required by her department:

It's good, but they're a bit...fanatical. I mean, just witness the fury when some poor naive tourist tries to ask for ketchup.

Oh god yes, Low Country Boil over grits any day!

Sally's ftw!

That's really similar to what happened with my parents too! It's one of my dad's favorite stories to tell, so I've heard it a LOT. As he tells it, my parents went to do their marriage registration or whatever it is and as part of the process they asked my mom "And will you be taking your husband's name?" To which my…

A friend of mine teaches English in an elementary school in Japan (3rd grade maybe? 4th? something like that) and he recently took the opportunity to teach all his kids the "What does the fox say" song— naturally, as part of a larger less on on learning English names for animals/animal sounds.