Actually, I'm curious as to what those are. Other than "moneypit" for a house, I can't think of anything that gets the full meaning and connotation across other than this allusion to Brer Rabbit. Because it's not just about it being impossible to extricate oneself, but that the more one tries, the worse it gets.

Yeah. It's kind of sad that I now say "let's call a shovel a shovel" or "let's call a fig a fig" just because I'm afraid that people will falsely believe the saying is racist and then expanding that to include me. I just hope the (false) claim that the word picnic is linked to lynchings never catches on.

I hate this woman, but I'd prefer to give her the benefit of the doubt that she's using them legitimately and just not thinking about the newer racist meanings of those words/phrases. But, if she works the word "niggardly" into conversation, then it's three for three and I'm totally with you on the Freudian thing.

Obviously no, but implying someone isn't a photographer on the basis that there's no video is as silly as proclaiming "This is a restaurant?" at Olive Garden because they don't serve tacos.

Yep. That seems to be about it.

FYI: Spiders eat by injecting their prey with a toxin that liquifies the prey's insides and then sucking out the liquified guts. There's nothing to see beyond this.

Same here. I've linked to my method for cooking, cooling, and peeling before. Maybe a video would be a good idea. I feel sorry for people reduced to picking off bits of shell.

I reward myself for staying under budget. Hear me out before judging.

For a stir fry, I'd recommend thicker slices. I often cut thick asparagus "on the bias" (diagonal slices), maybe 1/4" thick, and fry them up on their own until they're tender-crisp. Delicious and very pretty.

The rumor is that it's linked with Alzheimers. I think it's linked in the same way that vaccines are linked with Autism. (In other words: it's something everyone did, so we might as well blame bread.)

It sounded like the paper was eating people. People!!!

Argh! Please, if you're going to present for thirty minutes, please, er, learn to, um, squelch the, uh, non-verbals. I was very interested, but I really had to struggle to make it through just a few minutes.

You know why I never spent money on a radar detector? Because I don't speed. You know why I'd never consider a device like the one in this article? Because I don't run red lights.

Thank you. When I was younger, I asked my father why he used his turn signal in parking lots or when there are no other cars around. His answer: If I do it all the time, I don't have to worry about forgetting to do it when it matters.

Oh, come on. Why would you care unless you would otherwise "accidentally sneak through" a red light? If you always stop at red lights, you wouldn't care about whether an intersection has a camera.

Sorry, LH. I'm totally with you when you tell us how to break user agreements or other such "just because we tell you how to do this we don't mean you should do this" posts. But a hack which helps people decide whether or not it's financially "safe" to put lives in danger? Bad form.

Whether it's safe for me to stop shouldn't be determined by whether or not the person behind me is tailgating.

Well, for $300, I should hope that I'm able to make more than one sandwich with it.

Because the Unabomber was creepy.

Physics aside, why would they be afraid of iPads becoming projectiles and not worry at all about the many hardback books? Nice try, though.