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1. 5 months ago on Bad Machinery

   Possibly, but it’s new for her, and no one else seems to endure it?

2. 5 months ago on Bad Machinery

   This may be well off base, but does Lottie have red spots on her face? Could it possibly be from heavy “Leila Taylor” make-up? Just a weird thought…

3. 8 months ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   Well done! I read the article as well, and you’ve done a great job explaining it. Dialogue used to have careful sound editing to match the actor’s inflections, etc. No more, alas…bring on the subtitles.

4. 8 months ago on Bad Machinery

   And then there’s candlepin bowling with balls smaller than duckpin and pins the thinnest—like candles. Played in New England and the Canadian Maritimes.

5. 10 months ago on Stone Soup Classics

   Hello to a fellow asthmatic. Suspect the other meds (and the way asthma makes you feel) countered the temporary “feel-good” aspect of the prednisone.

6. 10 months ago on Stone Soup Classics

   Yeah, corticosteroids like prednisone that will make you feel great (for a while) and energetic (for a while), until side effects kick in if you have to take it regularly.

7. 11 months ago on Bad Machinery

   I would say it rhymes with Lottie. I think Grote is just one syllable.

8. 12 months ago on Jane's World

   Why, yes at least I am. Kind of you to assume. Perhaps others are historians of pop culture?

9. 12 months ago on Jane's World

   “And his hair was perfect…”

10. about 1 year ago on Stone Soup Classics

    An earlier post referenced Bugs Bunny cartoons; Bugs would taunt Elmer Fudd with the “nimrod” epithet because Elmer fancied himself a hunter. Also, long before cartoons, poor hunters would be similarly taunted, a ref. Going back to 18th century.