monkat, first of all, thanks for taking the time for a detailed response!

Concur with everyting Pie ‘oh’ Pah said.

Well, 45 himself is always whining about a Witch Hunt. As someone more clever than myself put it (apologies, but I don’t remember where I read it):

I think you final paragraph is the most salient. Religious environments don’t attract just sexual abusers: they attract abusers, period. The framework of an institution that claims divine authority and demands fealty and obedience with threats of eternal damnation for failing to obey is, at it’s core, psychological…

Counterpoint: Gritty doesn’t look like Sweetums.  He looks like Pepe the King Prawn.  Blatantly.  Complete rip-off.

Okay, so I get that this is Jezebel, so at the risk of the being subjected to the flame, I genuinely ask/state: I don’t understand your point, and am curious as to why you think the painting salacious and why you believe an identity is crucial to the model?

I have absolutely done this with a French press at work, using the coffee from the pot(s) in the communal coffee mess.

There is at least one presentation that I’ve worked on where a boss raised an eyebrow at some alarming trends, and then asked if I could make the data look better.

:)

You okay with Malbec? I love Chilean Malbec.

It’s for the same reason you should cook lasagna the day before, fridge it, and then reheat it for the meal — it gives all of the flavours a chance to meld. Same technique can/should be used for salsa, bruschetta, a lot of soups (like cioppino base), etc.! 

Not even 1%.

I would also add, because playing by the rules doesn’t work any more:

Hippoposthumous is close, but not quite correct with respect to submarines.

Fair point.  Were I the one writing, I should have left him with the socket as the true heir of Odin.

Because in Norse mythology: Odin paid the sacrificial price of his eye to Mimir for one drink from the Well of Urd at the base of Yggdrasil — the waters of which are said to contains wealths of knowledge.

Because in Norse mythology: Odin paid the sacrificial price of his eye to Mimir for one drink from the Well of Urd at the base of Yggdrasil — the waters of which are said to contain wealths of knowledge.