Related to mansplaining, though this is one of the few things of this kind that both men and women do in around equal amounts

[link] McSweeny's and funny.

Any parent I suspect can relate to the experience of total stranger coming up and giving them unsolicited parenting advice.

mind blown.

this was drawn with bic BALLPOINT PENS

Fo' real.

Though if they don't have water, I imagine they're closed--usually restaurants aren't allowed to serve without running water (because then people can't wash their hands)

Good one, good one.

Grrr. WTF, people. If you have plans at noon, backtrack!

Yeah, that's super annoying.

Someone had multiple children named "Chris" and you work with two of them?

I work with Christopher and Christine. I think there's a Kristen. Definitely one more Chris among them.

The actual project we're talking about involves both comics AND kindergarten students, so.

I don't think there's ever a good reason for fonts in email, be it Comic Sans or the most elegant of Bleeding Cowboys. I concede the usefulness of bold, italic, and underline, and Outlook automatically colouring replies is a lifesaver in long business chains, but I don't do that at home. On purpose, at least.

I agree with you in principle. But the latest upgrade in gmail starting creating messed up word wrap in all my emails, so I went to RTF, where stuff wraps properly. I'd go back to an email client, but I have a large volume of email and it downloads horribly slowly. I think it is due to interaction with anti-virus. Thunderbird really sucks on download speed for me and I don't know what other clients would be faster.

I work with Christopher and Christine. I think there's a Kristen. Definitely one more Chris among them.

Huh. That takes me to an "and my other brother, Daryl" place, but hey, whatever kept their parents from referring to "Chris and, oh, you know, the other two," I guess.

My mom often confuses our names. She's done this since we were kids. Sometimes she'll start with her oldest child's name and work her way down until she gets to the right child.

So if she wanted to refer to my youngest brother Dan, she'd often say, "Ji- To-Ka- Dan."

I figure that's normal for parents. Who's older, who made you mad last, who you spoke to last, who's in line of sight...whatever. My parents were pretty random.

Hey, at least they talked to us. I figure there are worse things.

I got stinky fries. After telling a co-worker I would cut her if she was reheating fish in the microwave. Hypocrisy, thy name is almost mine.

I had to self-medicate by playing Sail by AWOLNATION while buying lunch. I got told something I'd ordered for the business didn't get ordered the way I wanted it ordered...now I have to convince the business they don't need it that way...

But the song did take my BP down a bit. The peach Izze will have to do some more.

In my family (not siblings, but spread out on both sides) we have had a Jack, Jackie (male), Julia, Julia, Jacqueline, Judy, Gene, George and George. My mom, bless her, has consistently spent my entire life calling me "Judy" and her kid sister "Jacqueline," especially when she's stressed or rushed.

I'm pretty sure that one of my brothers was slated to be named "Jennifer" if he'd been a girl (the other one would've been "Michelle," but I can't remember which would have been which). I still kind of wish I'd gotten a sister in there somwhere (ita ! is making me wish it a lot lately; her relationship with her sister seems so much made of win), but name-wise the whole family definitely dodged a bullet there. None of us would ever have been known by our right names again.

There is a guy here whose surname is Love and I CAN'T WORK WITH HIM.

I'm writing a piece about an organization run by a Nancy Yancey.