Erika J. in natter:

As long as there is math, there will be praying in school.

Laura: Santorum's concession speech was pitch perfect. It was a bit hard to hear with me jumping up and down yelling at the tv and all, but very gracious.

Sean K, in Natter:

Ann Coulter's site is giving me a "Cannot find server"

tommyrot:

Hopefully, this means she's on the lam from possible felony charges.

Ailleann on dealing with a neo-con coworker:

I try to be courteous. This attitude of course means that we're all going to be killed by terrorists.

Our Empress responds in regal fashion to news:

New Zealand's high school students will be able to use "text-speak" -- the mobile phone text message language beloved of teenagers -- in national exams this year, officials said.

Aimée: Im n ur class takin ur test.

Plei: I'll ask tonight after the Bean has gone to sleep. (right now, she's toddling around in a diaper with her hair all crazy talking to herself)

Cass: Prepping for the next F2F already?

I'm not sure what Lee had in mind for me in Natter, but I doubt it was good.

I need to get fred steak.

Fay:

I hold Jilli directly responsible for the fact that my classroom presently boasts not one, not two but four cuddly toys.

See, initially there was Barney The Dog, who is white and fluffy and unspeakably cute. And whose name was Barney because that was clearly the best possible name.

And Barney was much beloved. And in Circle Time when we did 'I feel proud when...' or 'I feel happy when...', taking Barney home constantly got namechecked. Bless.

But then came Black Thursday. Black Thursday dawned like any other day, but when all the children arrived...one of them had forgotten to bring Barney back to school.

On occasion Barney had gone home with children who failed to come to school the next day because they were ill, but in these circumstances mums and dads had managed to get Barney to school even if the kid didn't make it.

But on Black Thursday? No Barney.

I tried to make everyone be philosophical about this, and we were not mean to the person who still had Barney.

Then came Black Friday. For lo, the Barney-having person? Forgot Barney again.

Wailing and weeping and gnashing of teeth and rending of hair from 15 other six year olds when they realised that the wicked person would now have Barney for the whole weekend.

There was much sorrow.

And so it came about that I went to the shop whence came Barney and purchased some family members. A chocolate brown dog exactly like Barney, whose name, I knew immediately, was Chester. And then there were wee versions, so I had to buy a wee caramel-coloured one. She is called Honey, because that is clearly her name. But then I was on a roll, and it occured to me that if I liberated the remaining white Barneyalike from the shop, I could sneakily swap Barney's identical twin sister (henceforth to be known as Bianca) for Barney from time to time, in order to wash Barney. Because Barney was becoming pretty grubby, what with his hussylike sleeping around ways.

And then I saw an unspeakably adorable wee pig, who looked remarkably like the Pig Puppet in Wolves in the Walls. So she came to live with us too. Her name is Penelope, which is a large name for such a small pig, but it is her name.

On the following Monday, Barney did return. He still lives in pride of place on top of the computer monitor, while Chester and Honey (who guard the classroom while we are away at home) live with the other toys. We have now had two more No Barney emergencies, but happily in those situations everyone was very chilled about it, because we knew that Chester was ready to step into the breach and go home with the person who had been Very Good that day.

....I have not, however, brought any evil rabbits into the classroom.

Yet.

In Veronica Mars (contains plot spoiler for episode 3.07)

Teppy: * Gee, you think the EXTREME CLOSE-UP on her soda when she walked away means something???

Dear god, someone put an anvil in her drink!!! *

juliana: My Safeway has those little plastic lemon & lime juice bottles in the booze section, the fish counter, and the produce section. They REALLY don't want their customers getting scurvy.