> Since neither of you have lived here in quite some time, > you've missed . . . the heroine epidemic I haven't missed it. My 5 year old niece is addicted to Frozen, which has two heroines. When I was a kid, stories often only had one, so I agree: this heroine thing is really getting out of hand. -- Ralley "Agrees" with Mowgli's Assessment (January 2017). [Lisa holds 2 pairs of bananas and asks her 3-year-old to count them.] [pointing to each banana] "1...2...1...2." "That's good, but can you count them and keep going?" [pointing to each banana] "1...2...3...4 5...6...7...8...." -- Lisa tries to be precise but is bested by Carl (February 2017). Trump spent his time tweeting that the Press was mean to Kellyanne Conway for saying that Obama was listening to Trump through the microwave. I am angry that that sentence makes sense. -- Sue accurately describes the times in which we live (March 2017). "I like my ice cream simple...like my men." -- Kendy (April 2017). "Garret said I'm weird!" "But you ARE weird." "Yeah, but he said it like it's a BAD thing!" -- Should I be concerned that this conversation between Katie and me made perfect sense to me? (June 2017). > I didn't feel like spending $10 to see the LBJ library and museum. I hear the BJ museum is even more expensive, but the interactive exhibits are worth the admission price. -- David is aware of better museums than Frank in Austin (August, 2017). > > I just found out that the totality of the eclipse in 2024 will be a bit > > longer than the 2017 eclipse. The totality is what it's all about anyway. > > I thought length doesn't matter. Only the girth of the totality zone. Here I am thinking like a girl again... -- It's not the size of your umbra, it's how you use it (August 2017). > As for refunds, Fall League is all sunk costs - we still have > to pay for lights and insurance. In my mind, it's not our fault > that she didn't stretch / train / warm up / have better genetics > and she committed to playing in the place of someone else. I think our break-even point with lights was 42 people and we had 52 registrations. Plus we got $300 in sponsorship. And summer league covered insurance for the year. I'm OK with us showing partial mercy on her as a partial refund for a partial tear (or whatever it is). Also, to be fair, I think a few of us might have had a hand in some genetic modification on a night that combined disc golf, beer, a time machine, and mutagentic material. Really, a terrible idea in hindsight... -- Frank admits hindsight is 20/20 (September 2017).