My beloved late mother-in-law enjoyed watching TV, especially Magnet, PM and The A-Train.

We must be related. Here’s a few of my favorites from my Mom,

Sinbad (Steve Harvey)

Oh my god yes. All of this, yes. I have a coworker who does things like this sometimes, just to be the person who’s right in the room. We were talking about craft supplies (children’s librarians) and I mentioned the Cricut (http://us.cricut.com/home/), a cutting machine. I pronounced it “Cricket,” because that’s how…

“I’m afraid of deep things” is just pretty great and wonderful. And hey, she owned it. She’s not allergic to deep things, she’s not intestinally sensitive to deep things, she hasn’t been warned by her doctor or chiropractor or astrologist not to drink from deep things. She’s just afraid of deep things. I can respect…

My grandmother once told my mom that their old neighbors had moved to San Francisco, and were down the street from a very nice band. The Happily Buried.

Or my aunt. The last time we had a family reunion, I kept a running tally of all the celebrity and fictional character names she screwed up - notably, correcting anybody who pronounced them correctly. Over the course of one weekend, we had:

I began ignoring the straw policy after that, and the manager dutifully ignored my ignoring of said policy.

That story about eating the $20...I mean, there are people who won’t handle ANY cash without gloves, because of how filthy it is. Plus, something like 114% of US currency has trace amounts of cocaine on it...then again, maybe that’s why he ate it.

For what it is worth, this guy is a lawyer.

The librarian said it was a normal sized home use crock pot, so yeah, a gallon or so of volume. She didn’t assemble it on site, apparently she did it some place else and then carried the whole thing into the library.

Not a food story, but I once had a client with a user whose PC (which I was supporting for my employer) kept crashing on her. I eventually realised that it was because she had it & a fan heater on the same power strip under her desk.

Yes, that bald man dictating how young girls’ hair needs to be styled is totally the hero of this story. Sure.

No no no. Curly hair does not stay straight with straight ironing and sweat mixed together. Curly hair wants to be curly and sweat producing exercise would just turn that into a big ‘ol mess of frizzy curls.

On the up side, learning about discrimination and racial profiling in this way could be the most educational thing this young lady experiences during her whole career in the state of Texas school system.

I guess they doubted her commitment to straightening lotion.

1. Her hair is amazing. And yes, straightening on the regular would harm it. Curly hair is usually fine and more easily damaged.

Stages of me attempting to watch this, illustrated by Prince:

No. I disagree. It shows how cults operate. I was raised in one for 20 years. People with money and authority and a good public image have free reign. Cruise is flying too close to the sun. It shows how someone can be “successful” in many ways. But he’s a petty man-child with a total need for control because he…

Sadly, the people charged with working for Tom don’t have an option to peace out (or at any rate, they genuinely don’t believe they have the option). So they would take their write up and do their RPF business and hope they can claw their way back up to their former stature eventually. Alternatively, they could say…