Good news! My librarian says that she will buy the book and put me first on the list when it comes in. W00h00!

Yeow, I just went there - now bookmarked just in case. I think I mansplain everything to everyone cus I don't know who knows what. Is mansplaining different than Male Answer Syndrome? Is MAS okay if I end my explanation with I suffer from MAS?

Hah, Thomas Wolfe was so tall he hand wrote all his novels on the top of his refridgerator in long hand and tossed the pages into a box for his editor to cry over. I am trying to think which of his books I liked more but all that comes to mind is Look Homeword Angel and that becasue of the angel on the cover

Argh! I am only recently out of a 25 year relationship and that is the mess I am going to step into? Maybe I will just lurk here in Jeze-land (at least until I am upgraded from gray.)

Not in my library system - I will see about fixing that.

Thank you for the new word - I had heard 'bespoke' used before so I finally looked it up and can now add it to my vocabulary

This is both a local and a world-wide problem; any national emergency brings out the donations of stuff people no longer need.

That reminds me:

My take-away: "no rinse shampoo??" I wish she wasn't velcroed to her seat to 'local vertical' so we could get a real feel for space. She could be in any aspect to camera - though it might make some people 'space sick'

I will stick with the definition of an intellectual I discovered in 1970 - all it takes to be an intellectual is to have someone around who isn't one.

The same sort of 'charity' ruined any chance of there being an African apparel industry. Bales and bales of donated cholthing is distributed all over Africa through many different charities. They start out as free at the distribution point and increase in cost as the clothing migrates outward. It is like the US food…

So do you hold the head and chop the body off or hold the body and chop the head off? Inquiring minds want to know.

LW - it is too bad it took the news services days to get out of their passive tense 'miracles happen' stories and begin to mention the flight attendants' participation in the rescue of the passengers. Who knew how much training they went through!! I will certainly feel a little safer (but I won't take all the weight…

Yeah, but it is days after the event so they did not get around to mentioning the heroes as active participants in the 'miracle' for days - as the OP stated it was all passive tense until today whereas it should have been 'heroes' help rescue hundreds while risking their own lives and health.

The first time I saw the HeatherSimon person whinge about other people I was sort of on HS's side then HS went on and on and on and on like this on the 2 threads I read and I can only suggest that HS do some research or go on to the next thread - no good can come from whingeing.

OMG - you're right, fucking boot camp memories! I got out in '69 so many of my memories are have a rosie glow to them - so much so that I did not even look to verify while I was looking at his medals - 8 different medals, with dupes his total was 16 - 5 navy crosses. The other force generals could not match him and…

Wasn't that the year the Oscars could have nominated Dustin for Best Actress and Julie for Best Actor? Damn, they blew a really cool meme.

You are forcing me to look at myself. So, I was walking home from the Boren Street Disco on my way home on Capital Hill at about 1:30 am. There was this woman walking parallel with me across the street - it was dark and I worried that she might think I was a threat so I dawdled to let her get 'safely' ahead of me but…

I was in the Marine Corps when 'Chesty' Puller was commandant - and he is a guy - (bad USMC joke punch-line 'and his brother Peter'). He won every single medal available to a serviceman except the Medal of Honor and many think that was because the Army generals didn't like the Marines.

Well, was it the things that he said that caused you to feel like garbage? If he was belittling you or trash-talking you down and you feel like garbage, then er - this does not bode well for you. If it is just the fact of the argument and not the content then woohoo! this was a good thing because you can have…