@AuntBeast: Look up "Marley's Ghost" on knitty.com. They use smaller links and fulling, but the basic technique is there. Tavi's just looks like a hugely chunky yarn.

@lermanzo: Haha yes! EXACT same experience with that book.

When I was in fourth grade I was reading Judy Blume. Now THAT, my friends, was and still is the way to be ahead of the curve on these things.

@HelloKitty: I had someone propose to me the other day that within 20 years or so, what will be desirable in job candidates, people applying for higher degrees, etc. won't so much be knowledge as the ability to access knowledge quickly. Maybe your sons are ahead of the game!

@Flackette Goes Retro: My mom banned me only from the Earth's Children series (reading them later, yeah there is so much graphic sex in them it eventually gets boring..."They're having sex AGAIN?? Time to flip a few pages), but as she is a reader generally restricted to romances and fantasy, she had no clue what I was…

@LindsayC: doctoral hilarity ensues: When I worked in Jamaica a few years back, we were instructed never to leave the house without shoes on due to simply the vast numbers of centipedes, scorpions, and other nasty poisonous biting and stinging things. Same thing working in New Orleans after Katrina - a cut on the foot…

@ShrikirtiRaven: Yeah, I checked out another pirate wedding on there a while ago (I think they were rather more elegant than we're going, but I still came away with good ideas for decorations and so forth). We still have a few relatives with reservations about the idea, so it's nice to see other people pulling off…

@HuckleberryFriend: THIS is the wedding I have had my heart set on since I was 16. Eat your heart out bridezillas, my ringbearer is going to climb down the rigging with a cutlass in his teeth.

I recently got engaged and have had a bit of a reverse-feminism complex about it: Do I really need a man? Am I betraying all these fought-for principles? Even at 28 I'm just now at the start of my career, what am I doing? Then I look at this goofy wonderful man who I can't bear to be without and agrees to my goofy…

Snuggies: Not just for the couch anymore!

I'd define a tea partier as a middle-class member who is angry about some aspect of the current economy. Other things seem to factor in, but I would call that a good general guideline. Also, impossible to have rational conversation with, but that might just be my parents...

Whatever Amber Rose is wearing in that picture...I'm torn. It's hideous, but it looks so warm and comfy...

@Blueberry26: I would wear the crap out of 11. High waists like that are great for normal people bodies! (Plus I am a sucker for that shade of green)

@SunburnedCounsel: Sounds a lot better than squeezing cold foamy crap in them like I have to do. I imagine it's overall less gross than the wet kind and therefore a salon is probably out of the question, huh..

@swashbuckling: Look at the market base. 10-14 year old girls don't have jobs or their own money; they get by on allowance, birthday money, etc. They can look at the $40 shirt at the mall, but they can buy the $12 version at Walmart themselves. And at that age, buying an article of clothing for yourself, with your…

@freckles: Aniston plays a single woman who accidentally falls into a perfect job through bluffing, and when the truth comes out her boss, played by Butler, gets angry and fires her after a series of hilarious hijinks brought on by her trying to keep up appearances, all of which make her look as dumb as possible in…

@shanASS: Irene Adler was about as close as Holmes ever got to a lady friend, and his opinion on her was pretty much "well she is as smart as me, I will give her that" and that was about it. Seriously, no woman would have put up with his smoking and dope-shooting and how can you trust a man who's THAT GOOD with…

@HarlemSnowflake: Those two things to me don't seem so bad; they ARE practical. Laser hair removal mean no more spending on razors/waxes/what have you (and time spent on it as well), and being a possessor of pretty awful eyesight and inability to get contacts in, Lasik is a dream for me too. Granted they're not…

@bigred: Oh good, I'm not the only one who read this on a wager. But yeah—if it was going to end up with her having a demon fetus, we could have at least gotten a good sex scene.

@tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock: If someone else came up with that name, they'd be better off letting the world think someone else invented it.