Pariah

Whores in Space - Part One of the Inara Serra trilogy New Topic: Captain Hook is on the prowl again, but Peter Pan is indisposed. Who will stop The Hook?

Q - What can I say? We had to use elemental potassium to clear that clogged drain. Nothing else would work. A - It's more decorative than functional.

That's bound to happen when you have the speed of light squared as a conversion factor.

Who's the vocabulary expert around here, anyway?

Q - What did Adam and Jamie use to build a functional aircraft carrier? A - That's the last time I ever use elemental potassium to unclog a stopped drain.

I don't think it's Audrey II. I think it's a sunflower from Plants vs. Zombies.

It is a game of "questions" (plural), isn't it?

How should we know?

Why not, is there a dress code?

New World Jackals would be great name for a rock band.

She wants $39.95 for the Nudist costume. New Topic: Baby Boy Pariah will be 8 days old on Halloween. Costume ideas?

Yeah, eating gold (or platinum or any other heavy metal) would not be my first choice either.

I'm sorry, but there's not a single thing on that list that I would consider eating--even if the prices weren't outrageous.

"Shrek? Yeah, greatest animated feature of all time!"

In an AP conference earlier this fall, one of the readers mentioned a peculiar difficulty some students had: They wrote too much. She said that on numerous exams, students who were trying to explain a phenomenon as directed by the exam would wander around (so to speak) and eventually stumble into the neighborhood of the correct answer. And then just when they were about to win the point, they would write something to obviously and irreparably wrong that the graders had no choice but to mark it incorrect. Her advice for us to give to our students: Take a moment to think about the question, decide what the correct answer is, and write it down. Then stop.

Q - It's only October. It's not even Halloween yet. Are we really talking about Christmas already? A - Third down and 7.65 meters to go!

Doesn't everyone?

Most of the armored pieces say "Colt .45". New Topic: Foxbat has a date with Squirrel Girl. How does it go?

That's kind of a caustic response, isn't it?

In my younger years, I was convinced that the only reason my parents HAD kids was to wash dishes (and laundry, and cars, and....)

Gesundheit!

You're on for next week. I'm probably going to be a little busy anyway.

The Labor and Delivery Ward is not as interesting at one o'clock in the morning as you might think. It's even less interesting when you get sent back home after seven hours of labor and no delivery.

Doesn't everyone already know that the greatest irony of "Ironic" is that it's not?

This week's topic: Three Songs to Play LOUD