It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday, or the crazy melty land, or you know, the world without shrimp.

Anya ,'Showtime'


The Crying of Natter 49  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Atropa - Jan 28, 2007 12:43:54 pm PST #6452 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I need help from the hivemind: how long is a bottle of salad dressing good for? Say, a bottle of pomegranate vinagrette that had been opened in Dec.?


Hil R. - Jan 28, 2007 12:46:00 pm PST #6453 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

If it's been in the fridge, it should be fine. (Actually, even if it hasn't been in the fridge, it's probably fine, too. Not much can grow in vinegar.)


sumi - Jan 28, 2007 12:46:08 pm PST #6454 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Nigella Feasts? Or today's Nigella Bites?

(And I watched this week's Monk and Psych - I like my Friday evening detectives. . . although I mostly seem to watch them on Sunday afternoon.)


sarameg - Jan 28, 2007 12:47:29 pm PST #6455 of 10001

Sara, why do you have multiple SS cards?

I didn't get a ssn until I was 10? 11? (I remember going to the Soc.Sec Office.) There were 2 punch out cards on the sheet, identical to each other. When I went off to college, I took one, my parents kept the other. When mom sent me my bc, she included the other card. Which is somewhere in this apartment.

Is this not standard? It always seemed weird to me that my parents waited so long to get around to it, and that it wasn't automatically done by the hospital at my birth.

Toy reminds me of an attempt at an elegent version of the monchichi (? the one with the thumb that fit in it's ears and mouth and...) monkey.


Hil R. - Jan 28, 2007 12:55:46 pm PST #6456 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

It always seemed weird to me that my parents waited so long to get around to it, and that it wasn't automatically done by the hospital at my birth.

Would that have been around 1985 or so? That's when the government started requiring that kids have a social security number in order for parents to claim them as dependents on taxes. I didn't get one until then.


-t - Jan 28, 2007 12:57:39 pm PST #6457 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Is gmail stupid or is it me?

I was unable to connect to gmail for a while, but it is fine now.


sarameg - Jan 28, 2007 1:00:59 pm PST #6458 of 10001

Would that have been around 1985 or so? That's when the government started requiring that kids have a social security number in order for parents to claim them as dependents on taxes. I didn't get one until then.

That must be the reason! I was 10 then. I remember my brother wanting to sign his RIGHT THERE and he had just started writing, so his sig is HUGE. And obviously that of a child.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 28, 2007 1:05:33 pm PST #6459 of 10001
What is even happening?

Oh, that doll is awful. Is it an Anne Geddes thingie? You know the photographer who photographs all the babies in costume (they're usually cute). It seems to me they started putting out Anne Geddes dolls and they were freaktastic.


Kristen - Jan 28, 2007 1:20:28 pm PST #6460 of 10001

It always seemed weird to me that my parents waited so long to get around to it, and that it wasn't automatically done by the hospital at my birth.

I didn't get mine until I was going to start my first summer job. This has now been an issue every time I apply for a mortgage or home loan.


Jessica - Jan 28, 2007 1:23:02 pm PST #6461 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have no earthly idea where my SS card is. I've known the number by heart ever since I applied for college, but the card itself has vanished into the ether.