The BBC has announced that it's going to be ceasing to host it's Cult TV Repository

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I've checked it out a few times for Buffy and Angel stuff - it's a cool site. Sadly, it'll be gone in two weeks.

From your very own link, tommyrot:

I should learn how to read....

Also, do Madagascan hissing cockroaches really hiss? What does it sound like? Is it loud?

They do indeed, unusual for an insect. They expel air through holes along their abdomens to create the sound. It's used as competitive behaviour between males during mating season, the louder roach is going to be the bigger and stronger too. More energy efficient than actually throwing down. They also hiss when feeling threatened, which would certainly be rather startling if you weren't expecting it.

Is there any known method to get my kid to talk about things other than baseball, from time to time?

Teach him to type and he can IM with me.

They expel air through holes along their abdomens to create the sound. It's used as competitive behaviour between males during mating season, the louder roach is going to be the bigger and stronger too.

I can do that too. Well, from near the abdomen, anyway. Doesn't seem to help with the mating, though.

Sorry Cindy, I jumped to the end of the thread to post it as soon as I read it, and must have missed your link while scrolling down the page.

I'll heal eventually. Hopefully. *sniff*

Today could be themed "It's not me, it's YOU."

And I'm the one saying it. And they aren't believing it.

Fnarg.

Oh thank god. My Chinese food has arrived! For about an hour there, I was convinced that I would go mad from hunger and gnaw the limbs from hapless coworkers wandering into my reach.

Is there any known method to get my kid to talk about things other than baseball, from time to time?

If it's any consolation, baseball leads to math, and math leads to SATs.

IOW, probably not, unless you can work in things like, "I bet Bill Mueller washes behind his ears! Let's go wash behind our ears!!"

Shortwaisted traditionally means, or a person, "from the widest point of the bust to the widest point of the hips is very short, proportional to the overall height." It has no necessary bearing on a person's rise. I say this because I am a shortwaisted person with a fairly long rise (and long legs). My mother likes to joke that we're the same height, until I sit down, at which point I am 3 inches shorter than she.

Trouser measurements/descriptions use "waisted" in completely arbitrary and wrongheaded ways, which messes everything up. A "princess waist" on a dress is actually a seam directly under the bust, and has nothing to do with where your natural waist lies. It's an historical thing, I guess.

Shortwaisted traditionally means, or a person, "from the widest point of the bust to the widest point of the hips is very short, proportional to the overall height."

I'm not sure if I'm keeping count, but this is at least definition #3, right?

I do feel a lot better about not being precisely sure what it meant.

A "princess waist" on a dress is actually a seam directly under the bust, and has nothing to do with where your natural waist lies

I thought that was the empire waist. In fact, I thought the princess waist was lower than the natural waist. Don't most dress waist descriptions have nothing to do with the natural waist, instead referring to the narrowest part of the torso of the dress (empire, dropped, whatever)?