What is the "dome thing"? I've never been to Disney, if that explains why I don't know.

Because I can't not:

My climbing gym does a Halloween party every year and one year a climber dressed as Batgirl and it was the best climbing costume ever.

Those baby-Chewbacca howls, man! Grown-up bears have such a beautiful shine on their coats, they look so soft and I wish they were Narnian bears that I could hug and they wouldn't maul me to death.

I feel ya, Reese. Not only am I a white girl, I'm white girl raised in the country by Deadheads. I never had a chance.

Not a chance. She's the one that goes to the bakery in the next town where nobody will see her and buys cookies, then passes them off as her own.

Oops, I re-read my reading and its his *mother* who is the atheist, not him (although the above still stands, since presumably he loves his mother.)

I'm inclined to give her a little bit of latitude, but not a lot, because she was just in a car accident. People have all kinds of bizarre reactions when they're shocked (especially if she has whiplash or any kind of injury to the tissue around her spine) including really irrational emotional outbursts.

I read it that way too, but then I re-read it and she calls him an atheist *lover*, as in he loves us atheists (and really, who wouldn't? We're so the perfect combination of salty and sweet, like those treat bins you get at Christmas with the salted almonds and chocolate bark. Mmm!)

That is an *amazing* comment. I remember getting McDs one day in a food court, and next to me was a mother and her little boy, maybe three or four, and he had a cheeseburger. He took one bite and *burst into tears* and I mean tears of *sorrow* and kept saying "Its BROKEN! It's BROKEN!" and his poor mother could not…

Its me... Dave!

Not only is the park blocks from her house, it was *across the street* from where her mother was at work. The woman could probably peek out the front window and see her daughter from there. Man, I was riding my bike four miles away to play with my best friend when I was 10, and then we'd get on our bikes together…

Yes, I would defend her because kidnapping is the fault of the kidnapper, not the parent who doesn't put their child on a leash.

What did she do wrong, again?

I'm always curious to know what kind of response people who say things like that are going to get. The person who committed suicide is dead — they're not going to respond to any attempts to shame them into being not-dead. The only people those comments have any material impact on are the folks they've left behind,…

I just stumbled on this accidentally, and this whole comment thread reads like "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick" by Chris Van Allsburg, which is one of the most bewitching "children's" picture books I've ever seen. I want to write novellas for every sentence written here!

Actually, these are:

Seconded. I thought that's what weddings were for, to feed people and get them drunk?

I currently work at a farmers market and am now having to deal with all the organic-only locavore hipsters who keep asking us stupid shit like is our chard GMO. Not much call for GMO greens there, champ! They also get their noses out of joint when we say we're not organic, but the only things we spray are the…

Was it Big Edie and Little Edie by any chance?