On Other Brands Nabisco Could Revitalize By Removing a Qualifier
@paddlepickle More importantly: how dare they trick fig hating people into eating them, thus depriving the sensible Fig Newton loving people who'll be paralyzed with indecision wondering "Now is this a FIG Newton or one of those gross ones with like, apple?"
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On SimplyNoise Reviews, in Order of How Soon the Author Will Murder Someone
@Ialdagorth Wolves don't actually sound that bad to me since it seems like it would fall under 'non-yappy dog noise' that a lot of people learn to ignore, but campfire would probably give me serious nightmares. (It is a bad idea to allow relatives who are firefighters to tell work stories that end in the burn ward when there are children around.)
I'm usually someone who prefers total quiet to sleep, but on occasions where that isn't possible or isn't working for some reason I'm fairly certain Solo Piano by Philip Glass (specifically "Metamorphosis" 1-5) saved my sanity. And probably the lives of all the people I would have encountered while sleep deprived. Balances on that elusive "soothingly repetitive" zone without tipping into "infuriating and boring" the way all the traditional white noise type thingies do for me.
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On I would actually like that, though.
I've seen this floofy vs. tomboy clothes issue come up a lot in the last few years (as so many of my friends started having kids) and I'm forced to wonder again: am I the only girl who had the opposite problem?
If you look at my childhood photos, there is a very obvious line where I got old enough to become clear and vocal about my taste in clothing. Baby/toddler/preschool age: overalls as far as the eye can see (if you listen closely, I think you can hear the echoing voice of my former tomboy, school uniform hating mother "They were pink and lavender! What more did you want?") By the time I started kindergarten: fluffy dresses with lace trimmed ankle socks and mary-janes as far as the eye can see. But bless my mother's heart for finding knitted knee-sock patterned tights for a little girl who refused to give up skirts even in the face of a Midwestern winter.
Seriously, just me?
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On Sometimes State Quarters...
@Annabelle Hey! Harrison chose to serve in both Houses of Congress as a representative of OHIO, not Virginia, and was the first congressional delegate for the Northwest Territory, full name "Territory Northwest of the River Ohio". Don't make me call my 4th grade history teacher to back me up on this. Presidents were seriously A Thing with her.
Of course the plane just reminds me of the joke frequently mentioned by grade school classmates that the Wright brothers really invented the plane so they'd have a faster way out of Ohio. Astronauts? Just trying to get further away. (Yes, I have a love/hate relationship with my home state. Why do you ask?)
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On Five of Cups
Er, just for the record I had NOT committed plagiarism, because I had never even heard of the story before. It just happens to coincide with the most terrifying ending possible for a certain kind of 13 year old girl.
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On Five of Cups
@queenofbithynia "Like Mother Used to Make"! I always felt so sorry for poor David.
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On Five of Cups
@craygirl Favorite short stories (other than "The Lottery" because obviously it is awesome) "Flower Garden", "Elizabeth", and "The Tooth". Also "Louisa, Please Come Home" largely for sentimental 'this is the best time I've ever been gently accused of plagiarism' reasons but also because it's good. Novels: "The Bird's Nest": weird but in a hypnotic sort of way, although "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" and "The Haunting of Hill House" are still my favorites.
I've spent years looking for Jackson fans!
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On Harry Potter and the Liniment Layer Cake of Secrets
@OneTooManySpoons Sad truth : the only reason I know that is because my 4th grade teacher brought real Turkish Delight in for the class so we'd know what the hell the White Witch was giving Edmund Pevensie. As I recall, the general sentiment was that Edmund got robbed or there was some truly serious magic-whammy involved.
Didn't help that the rosewater ones tasted like my bubble bath smelled, but I cannot think of a candy that would be less served by being paired with chocolate.
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On You Know Where That Tongue Has Been
@Decca Tied for Best Thing. One of my dearly departed cats would tilt her head and lean over so you could kiss her on the cheek when she saw you doing smoochy lips. This is what happens when you give a feral born kitten to a 7 year old girl.
(I also accidentally trained her to kill spiders!)
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On Ass? Stella?
@jen325 The only fictional one I can think of is a muppet on Sesame Street named Roosevelt Franklin.