Oh, dear. Every episode of this show makes me die a little on the inside; if it came down to it, I could walk to this particular studio from my parents' house. (When I was five and begging my mother to go to dance school, I was thisclose to attending Abby Lee until my mother realized the astronomical prices she…

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater...strictly in the sense of the idiom, of course.

Yes, yes, and yes. They're on a crusade to "protect" not-quite-yet-humans (not to mention the collateral damage of STD/AIDS screening, counseling, etc. where the Planned Parenthood measures are concerned), and yet they're OK with putting *actual* humans in danger. It is so incredibly frustrating and sad; under no…

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They've been toying with my heart all these years, but this sounds promising. Maeby this will actually happen! (I couldn't help myself.)

@Anne Boleyn: Precisely. Though outside of "the T," oftentimes Pittsburgh has its Pennsyltucky moments. (I grew up and went to college there, and that was more than enough.)

@wonderwoahman: Though I've no authority to assent/dissent, Jezebel republished this from the Huffington Post. I'm not sure what the Jezebel policy is on editing/re-researching articles published elsewhere; if the policy is to republish exactly as it appeared originally, that could be why. A clarification would be…

@Anna Holmes: Ohh yes thank you both for illuminating this subject; it makes so much more sense now. After reading the Salon article, though, I'm slightly disturbed by this:

I really want to pop the one in the main picture...

The One With The Chick(s) and the Fish and the Stupid Teenagers.

In fact, she's 45 today — and I only know this because I wanted to know how old she was while filming 'Clueless;' she was 30(!). (And she was 34 in 1999 if you choose to include the TV show, filming 1996-1999.)

Lest we forget the readers themselves (of the New Yorker, at least) are recognizing the pattern: [jezebel.com]

But ah! We're forgetting about the 2nd verse of " '03 Bonnie and Clyde":

@BioLady: More exact than you think — I'm also 23 :) Thank you everyone for your input!

I was recently at the gynecologist's office and requested the IUD Mirena; I was told that I was not a 'desirable candidate' because of my marital status (single but in a 5-year relationship with no other sexual partners) and because I've never had a child; apparently the former puts me at risk for pelvic inflammatory…