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It really is a stupid name. I am wasting too much time figuring out the mental gymnastics on the name. It feels wrong mixing The with a possessive. The Joy Baptist Church Boys feels more correct. The possessive feels unnecessary. For professional teams and even college teams there is never a possessive--Cleveland Indians, The Ohio State University Buckeyes, etc.

My current pet peeve, the small southern where I live and work. The town has a website and social media accounts. You would think they would utilize those to let citizens know of upcoming utility work especially when Main St. is closed. Nope, not a single word on either their website or Facebook page about the road closings. Nor do they have the correct signage deployed to alert drivers to the closings. I just watched a school bus have to turn around on the road out front. The street is technically two lane but has room for people to parallel park on each side. Easy for a car to do a U-turn, a bus not so much. The main headline on their website and Facebook is the rescheduling of the Touch-a-Truck event that was a washout last Thursday.

I had that thought while typing out my post. I really was going for grammatically correct, the innuendo is a bonus. I imagine the Joy Boys looking akin to the Pit Crew from Drag Race.

Publisher do not own the printing presses. Those are independent contractors, and the number of printers who do mass market paperbacks is shrinking and there are now more printers doing trade than mass market. So publishers have to decide to wait for the mass market machines to be available or go with a printer doing trade size. The wait time could be a few days or a few weeks or months, and waiting means losing money. Then you factor in Covid 19 and how it disrupted the entire publishing process last year. Publishers are still recovering and sometimes it's easier to change format than to wait indefinitely for the printer to be available.

I should have been prepared for the grammatical atrocity of Jill's post after port folio's, but the Joy's Boys is a bridge too far. It's making my brain hurt. Jill, sweetie, if you are reading this board, the team's name can be either The Joy Boys, or Joy's Boys but it cannot be what you typed. What you typed is an abomination of the English language.

Not all cars have electronic ignition standard. Assane apparently chose wisely in the parking lot. I was surprised Raoul never broke out of the trunk. I know American cars have an emergency latch in them for the express reason of getting out if kidnapped. I was waiting for Leonard to open the trunk and find it empty after he was in the cafe.

I own a very similar dress and have also been blessed with a chest that makes some dresses go from perfectly acceptable on the hanger to indecent on my body. I do not need a modesty cami underneath that particular dress.

I missed that one it must have been a story instead of a post. The one pic I see on his feed is completely staged. The room is too dark for anyone to study. And given how MacArthur operates, I can totally see him sparing no expense on a room like that, and only letting in his chosen few while the plebes look on. Maybe Jeremy has library privileges and can study there as long as he is on Daddy MacArthur's good graces.

The copy is misleading, and I can see how this would look like a bait and switch based on that post. My trained eye noticed there was zero natural light in the room. That tipped me off that the room is a repository and display space, not a space for actual humans to hang out. It would also be temperature and humidity controlled. Not a room the average person would want to spend hours reading in.

Anthony Ramos was so adorable and hot and awkward as Usnavi. I agree that Jimmy Smits is aging like fine wine.

As much as I do not want to defend MacArthur and his seminary, as a librarian who has done archival work in the past I feel I must. That is most likely not the actual library at the seminary. It's the rare books room. It's a place to display their treasures for special visitors like that photographer. The books were positioned for the photoshoot and then returned to their normal resting places. This is common procedure at most libraries especially ones who have expensive rare books in their collection. What's the point of owning a Guttenberg Bible if you cannot show it off, so libraries build these special rooms. This is not a room where the average student can go study and use the books there.

This was my first time watching a movie in a theater with other people since 2019. It was so worth it. It deserves to be seen on the big screen with no diversions. Anthony Ramos is adorkable as Usnavi. The movie feels lived in while also having fantastical moments.

A lot of snow?? A torrid affair with either a smoking hot Omar Sharif or an orange Julie Christie, or both??

It's been a minute since I last watched the first Avengers movie, but I do remember Loki's eyes being the bright blue like Hawkeye's for most of the movie until Loki gets pummeled by Hulk. Then his eyes return to their normal blue.

The Amish don't want their faces photographed. Their bodies and the back of the head are kosher. Jill's pics are still hella invasive though.

Mine is Ghost

They really weren't though. Reconstruction was all about bringing the states that seceded back into the fold, holding some Confederates responsible for their actions, and giving some protections to the newly freed slaves. Republican corruption during Reconstruction is another Southern myth. When Reconstruction ended, the Southern whites wasted no time attempting to undo any progress made and disenfranchising black voters. The literacy tests and poll taxes that were enacted to keep blacks from voting lest the South still have black members of Congress. The southern whites used this "corruption" by Republicans to justify their actions in the decades after Reconstruction. This was easily bought by many whites across America, and was a prevailing opinion during the time Margaret Mitchell wrote her book. It's easier for people to believe there was corruption than to examine their own racist beliefs and the racist actions of their ancestors.

It was also completely unnecessary. Elektra building a phone sex empire and making bank is enough. No need to have her launder some man's money for her to become rich.

Why do I get the feeling that your neighbor's dog leaves "presents" for the baseball players to find in the outfield?

The Big Lebowski is a great movie to quote, but not a great movie. The Coen brothers cared more for great lines than a coherent plot or actual characters and character development. In the hands of a lesser cast, the film would be forgotten.

He, as the kids today would say, ghosted her. They had only been seeing each other for like 3 weeks, so it should not have been that shocking to her when he didn't show.

I am completely aware of the Orthodox church. In fact, I was baptized and confirmed in one. But, it's a different religious tradition and really does not intersect with the faith of the fundies we snark on here. The Orthodox faith is Eastern Europe and Greece, the fundies here come from Western European stock. Their church history is completely based on Western European countries like England and France with a bit of Germany and Switzerland.

A couple of months ago, I was talking on the Jer/Jin thread about getting a signed copy of a new book by my Gay Dad, and it came in the mail yesterday. I'm quite pleased with it.

This is good news, but I'm still waiting on the sequel to 2009's Shades of Grey that was promised.

That's also a lot of books for Kevin.