I too have vache qui rit. Writing that reminds me of an idea I got.... ita, the game chapeau, the one that is used for finding out who is it. It made me laugh to realize how different things are depending on location. RANDOM. It almost makes me want to do a UNICEF style book on kids' games and how turn taking (as in who goes first) is decided. How do they do it in Jamaica?

yum! pulled pork.

and a neat twist of turnaround, I'm going to have a patty.

So Cashmere, you're saying you don't do dairy then?

Kate, I'm freaked out and scared of threading. Does it hurt?

So Cashmere, you're saying you don't do dairy then?

No, I do dairy. I love cheese. I just realize it's probably coming from disgruntled cattle.

Kat, I think so. That was the cheese in foil. Mushroom and garlic and green onion and bacon and veggie and ...more varieties than I could count. I miss that. I ate the other stuff anyway, because Edam!! YUM.

If I ever come down with some bizarre condition, I'll blame it on drinking the water in Prague and eating the cheese. And the inversion.

I'd do threaded, but I'm addicted to Fred Segal, and I don't think they offer it.

How do they do it in Jamaica?

Like America, I think. "One potato, two potato" comes to mind first. We also do eenie meenie, but there are no niggers ingolved, unsurprisingly.

I just realize it's probably coming from disgruntled cattle.

Yeah. I'm thinking most livestock is not part of Team Happy. A magazine I worked on in college was filled with radical feminists who told me that dairy was a feminist issue since they were raping cows to keep them producing milk.

I was all, "Well. I love cheese and milk."

That was the last time I did work for them.

I'm blaming Almaty for that or Kiev. I loved being told not to eat unusually large veggies.

I want la vache qui rit now, too. Ah well.

I also dispute that cows in California are any happier than cows in Vermont. Vermont is very nice!

Where do you go for the threading, OtherKate?

Kat, I'm a total baby, so I think it hurts. But it's over so quickly that it doesn't really bother me. I have a few other friends who also get their eyebrows threaded and they don't think it hurts. It's kind of like really rapid tweezing. I think it hurts less than waxing and my skin doesn't stay red as long (I have really sensitive skin). I've seen a woman getting her whole face threaded and a friend of mine got her upper lip done.

wait, what? What about eenie meenie?

I find chapeau to be hugely strange yet oddly endearing.

What's the whole chant for one potato?

Oh yeah, we never had any niggers in our eenie meenie. We had a tiger. But now I see that was just PC-ification.