I’m not the daughter of a witch.  I’m the daughter of a manicurist.

Impossible! NASA punted Tang after Gemini.

M. Stone noted:

There are two main approaches to investment: (A) Value investment. “This stock is actually worth more than the money I can pay for it.” (B) Greater fool theory investment. “I will be able to find someone who is an ever greater fool than I to sell this to for more than I paid for it.”

Shutup shutup shutup, I’m this close to getting him to sign the loan papers.

“Babe, it’s not fitting.  Turn around.  Huh.  Still not fitting.  Turn around again.  Ah, there we go.”

I used to avoid anything that called for dicing vegetables because I couldn’t be bothered. Then I got a mandoline. Now I avoid anything that calls for dicing vegetables because I’m afraid of the mandoline.

The band is made of a whopping 224 two-and-a-half karat rubies, and set into 18-karat rose gold.

Well, yes, but then they’ll get pissed off that it’s taller than they are.

DEWY YONIC FOODSTUFFS

That is interesting. But it is very much a study, rather than a new generally accepted consensus view. In particular, assuming the UN demographers have it wrong and actually, China and India will see widespread women’s education and use of contraception is... Well, we can certainly hope.

Building on that: the UN’s current best guess, from https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/900 :

. . . it is highly unlikely that the urge to procreate has been stimied by progress alone, leading one expert to label declining birth rates a “barometer of despair.”

You know you’re being set up, don’t you? Brace yourself for the editors demanding 1500 words on taste testing mayonnaise Froot Loops.

(For comparison, one Big Mac has 550 kcal, 30 g fat, 11 g saturated fat, 80 mg cholesterol, 1 g trans fat, 9 g sugars, 1010 mg sodium.  https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/big-mac.html )

“Got the use of the brand... got a high-profile actor... Clancy, get one of the interns to pick out one of the sword and elf-fucking scripts.”

GPS app on phone?

Given there’s no mention of capillary action anywhere, I don’t think we can rule out the possibility _____ figures gravity’s involved in how fibers absorb fluids.

“Every last one of them sucks.  Five stars.”  -- Pitchf**k