On The League of Ordinary Ladies: Short Dates
@kangerine But how was her POSTURE?
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On Never-Complainers, Workaholics, and the Balding-and-Manly
@thebestjasmine I agree. My husband is a second-year associate at a large Manhattan law firm that apparently is referred to affectionately as the Death Star in certain circles. He works crazy hours, but we spend a least an hour hanging out in the evenings (before I go to sleep, and he keeps working...), and with some exceptions, he takes at least one weekend day off (or mainly off - he'll still check his blackberry, but he's not WORKING).
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On Naked Came the Stranger
@I'm Right on Top of that, Rose Oh, holy moley, yes.
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On Tetherball Continues to Wait for Her Opportunity
@tessamae Finally! A use for all the leftover slime from DoubleDare!
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On Tetherball Continues to Wait for Her Opportunity
@jen325 Totally. Someone in the comments also made a good point that each nation's tug-of-war team should be made up of alternating women and men, and that they would all have to be from a DIFFERENT sport (so you couldn't, for example, have the entire crew team do tug of war). They also suggested having only medalists participate so no one could stack the deck with ringers, but I think that would be unfair to smaller countries.
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On Absolute Transparency, or Love in the Time of Google
In my mind, I was somehow equating Ely with Eli of "Bob and Eli" and getting all befuddled.
That said, this was a wonderful, wonderful essay.
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On "The outlandish drama began at about 8 p.m." ...
@EternalFootwoman And if she was carrying it with her...was this all premeditated??
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On "The outlandish drama began at about 8 p.m." ...
@vanillawaif Seriously. The appropriate lede for that article is, "A half-naked ninja wearing hot pink duct tape attacked and injured three police officers before backflipping out of the police car, in a bizarrely acrobatic incident Saturday night outside a lower Queen Anne bar.
(Edited to replace "woman" with "ninja")
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On Elderly Dogs and Babies: A Primer
@laurel Yeah, I have a relatively high-strung lab/collie mix (who is much less-high strung when thoroughly exhausted), but he LOVES babies/toddlers and puppies. He hasn't quite figured out that he shouldn't enthusiastically nudge toddlers and possibly knock them down, though, so I have to distract him if we're on cement :).
My friend came over with her 1-year-old the other day, and Indy kept giving the baby his favorite tug-of-war toy, wait until he had a good grip on it, and then would very gently start pulling. Unfortunately, the baby had just learned "share" at daycare, so every time Indy tried to take the toy, baby would just let go. They played 'very-slow-hand-off' for about 10 minutes instead of tug.
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On The League of Ordinary Ladies: Short Dates
@H.E. Ladypants Yeah, I just always use the name of whichever person I'm with has the easiest to spell/say.
A dude I dated in college used to always give his name as Holden Caulfield at restaurants, but that's because he was kind of a juicebox. I probably should've figured that out, all things considered.