No. Not only no, but hell no.

What? No grammarians have haughtily pointed out that it's odd to compare the difficulty of assembling furniture to the difficulty of assembling Conan's parody?

There actually is school a writing activity where you do the fortunately/unfortunately thing. Perhaps Mario just had a flashback to those days. Unfortunately, he stopped too early. (Sorry I just had to balance out the fort/unforts.)

If only flash drives had some sort of folder system, whereby you could keep those work and personal files separate...

(statement)-if+when=truth

You don't. You use your camera phone and deposit it through an app. Of course, you have to stand waaayyyy back.

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!

But the whole purpose of eating fries is to have a delivery vehicle for ketchup.

Possibly a guy who was given a fake number by some chick he met in a bar. Shame he didn't know your Jezzie nick or he might have left a message.

Pretty. My mother (German) would do something similar but a bit more random. Keep the hard-boiled eggs in the shell, but tap the shell on the counter to make a bunch of cracks. Boil in water with onion skins. Peel the eggs and admire the spider-web patterns. :)

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I suspected as much while I was doing further research last night (I have no life). You might be interested by this snippet about the Wren's Nest (aka the Uncle Remus Museum):

I'm sorry, but you'll have to be more specific. I'm always willing to revisit what I understand to be the truth (I try to avoid making assumptions), but I need a bit more guidance here.

You're that thirsty on a daily basis? I'd recommend mentioning this to your doctor; extreme thirst can be a sign of diabetes.

Some free (legal) German tv here: [www.dank.org]

Ha! I'm not surprised. I used that very idiom (the original) the other day in class, and my students all looked at me in confusion. I don't mind the confusion (idioms are, after all, something they're still learning) but I began to worry that the confusion would lead to the misunderstanding that I said something…

I'm not sure what you're saying here. I'm not disputing that there is a racist meaning to the phrase "tar baby." I'm disputing Mina's claim that "It was created as a racist epithet and has never been used as anything but." That is simply not true.

That was kind of the joke/point. ;)

Really? Tar baby is always racist? Even when it was used as a trap in the story of Brer Rabbit... told by Africans and African Americans? Sorry, I most definitely do not agree, anymore than I would agree that the word spade is always racist.

Quagmire fits, true enough.

Sorry, but that is not correct. You must not be familiar with the Brer Rabbit tales, but the tar baby as used in those stories is most definitely not used as a racial epithet. Whether the Brer Rabbit tales precede the racial epithet may be disputable, but I'm pretty sure they do based on the notion that they…