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)?

I hold out hopes that we'll get another Stealth-Moderate. I think Souter was expected to be fairly conservative, but he's just an odd New England hermit intellectual. Dangerous folks, they tend to think about things.

I've said it before, but I think Souter was Poppy's little "fuck you" to the neo-cons for having to make himself over as one and kiss their asses to get elected. Sadly, I don't think Junior shares any such compunction about it.

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

Probably. OMG, shortwaistedness is just like porn! We know it when we see it.

Ugh on Supreme Court politics. It's gonna be ugly, and everybody knew it/knows it, and none of them realizes how much the vast, blobby electorate loathes the ugly. (I mean, some people love it, rah rah rah Robert Bork, but I don't think they're actually the majority.)

From an email I got today:

Also, on Sandy's departure, actually this term it was her who joined the "conservative majority" of Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas. Kennedy was the one who broke away and voted with the "liberals." So, it really isn't that big a deal that she stepped down.

It would be a fight either way. And it surely will be one.

ETA: Why do paragraph breaks break my italics now?

ETA2: I'm having drinks with one of Ginsburg's OT2005 clerks tonight, so I will get more skinny then, but probably won't be posting all weekend.

Surely whether you are long or short waisted has more to do with where your waist is than where yor hips are? Though the difference is probably academic.

In my lexicon, "princess" means with seams running verically from neck to hem, no waist (or natural waist, but no seam there).