If I were closer Jessica, I'd take you to lunch. No way you're the world's shittiest parent. My bet is you are not even the World's Meanest Mommy (tm). A friend and I are in a never-ending contest for that title - I am lucky in the fact that mac proclaims me the winner most weeks.
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
I don't think I've ever said swathe.
As a kid I told a friend I had to "swathe hay" - he didn't know what I meant, and thought I had said some French word - 'swathey' or something.
I pronounce "swathe" to rhyme with "lathe" and "bathe."
Kathy, I had no idea that Breyer's made dolls.
Sorry--it's Byers carolers, not Breyers. I was getting them mixed up with the ice cream company, I think.
I'm pretty sure there are some kids around here who could use these toys: [link]
"Swathe" with a long A doesn't seem too weird. But "swather" with a long A seems all kinds of wrong.
We had this swather with an air-cooled v-4 that I liked. If I choked it too much while starting it and accidentally flooded it, it would sound so cool as it first would run on only one cylinder, then two, then three, and after half a minute the fourth one would finally join in.
Jesse, those toys shouldn't be wasted on kids - adults can not only appreciate them, but actually pay for them.
True, true.
Adorable! i'm told the blue ones are a Comicon exclusive (anyone going and want to buy one or a hundred?)
What's the difference between a novella and a novelette?
The novella is an economy novel, and a novelette has a fiberglass body and a V-8?
Heh - I was named after the Lady Jessica Atreides. Dune-nerddom is in my blood.
Does that mean your son is the Kwisatz Haderach?