I was just coming here with Erin's link.

At the end it says Orthodox Jews have the opposite convention. Where's Nilly? And do they just mean Ashkenazic Jews (which happens a lot when something is declared "Orthodox" or "Jewish").

My step-grandma is in the hospital. They don't know what's wrong, but it doesn't look good.

2006. You suck.

The history of buttons is more interesting than I'd have expected. This article also mentions the sword-drawing issue, and there's a lot of interesting stuff about women adopting male clothing.

I am home from my visit with brenda an tommy. Am Lushed up for a good long time. Yay!

{{vw}} I'm sorry 2006 is getting off to such a bad start for your family.

{{Cindy}} Get-over-it-quick~ma for you and the rest of the family. Ugh.

As for buttons, I know that in the Navy men's and women's uniforms all buttoned opposite each other. Also, the zipper on the dungarees faced opposite directions, so that the shirt overlap and the zip overlap matched up. Then your belt had to be fastened just to one side and facing the same direction as the overlap. It was all called the "gig line." Having your gig line not lined up was a big deal at inspection time. Still, if a girl wanted to wear any of the men's uniform (and I had at least one good friend who did because of her basic body shape), it had to be both shirt and pants so the gig line matched.

I seem to have supercharged the cats.

I gave them each a small piece of the jumbo shrimps I had for supper. Now they are wandering all over sniffing the 'frige and around the sink, and looking at me, and smelling my hands, etc. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? MORE!!!!" They blert.

I swear I heard one say "Woah."

Sheesh, it's like catnip.

The reason that was given to me at one time was that women of means in the old days had someone dressing them, and it was supposedly easier to button for the servant.

This is the one I have always heard too.

{{{vw}}} I'm sorry. Much ~ma to your step-grandmother.

Seems like Daniel has unlocked the Pandora's Box of the cat world. You're in trouble now, Mister.

Er. I guess I get that, but...99.9% of the guys I've had say this to me, some of whom have been perfectly cool guys, are WRONG. They are not anything of the sort, and using as a "I'm not an asshole like most guys" phrase is just not right.

Yeah, I generally find that I make that point better when not actively sounding like an arsehole (note that Commonwealth spelling there, see how I did that? Not that I have any trouble with you guys spelling it 'sonding').

And! I found the Crocodile Hunter quote I promised, about his best theirloveissopure!! mate:

"Wes and I met up when he was a teenager, and between us we've wrestled and wrangled and tossed more crocs than you could poke a stick at! We've watched each other's backs, and teamed up in every kind of animal situation you could possibly imagine!"

As Pat Robertson might say, "Daynja daynja daynja!"

We've watched each other's backs, and teamed up in every kind of animal situation you could possibly imagine!

I pray to G-d there is no Crocodile Hunter slash.

I pray to G-d there is no Crocodile Hunter slash.

Given the stuff just about writes itself, I'd say you'll need to pray harder.