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Yeah, be careful what you wish for when it comes to larger boobs. I don't know why anyone would willingly volunteer for what goes along with them: backaches, bad posture, shoulder grooves from bra straps, clothes that are hard to fit, guys calling them out on the street. I've always wanted mine to be smaller. The grass is always greener, I guess.

She did. Maneet also scored a 92. I like her. We have similar taste in earrings. Which is very important in evaluating a chef.

If you said "shezz longgg" where I grew up on Longgg Island, you'd've been laughed out of the beach club. It was "chaze lowwnge" or nothing. Same deal when editing fiction. It all depends on where you are.

Ina was her usual giggling self. Norah really seemed as if she didn't want to be there. IMHO, of course, I could be wrong. Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton had two daughters, Rashida (of Parks and Rec) and Kidada. Peggy Lipton went to my high school, for what that's worth.

I've had to make this ^ decision in manuscripts more times than I can count. It all depends on context, I guess proving that absent context a stickler will often be wrong.

That episode with Norah Jones was so uncomfortable, for reasons I can only guess at. I was going to come here after the previous episode to say I wish they would go back to being an hour long, but this one I'd've been fine with at five minutes. I couldn't wait for it to be over. I hope that whatever made her seem so miserable is fleeting.

I must've meant the alliums, then. I always think of alliums as being purple and spherical, so I assumed they were hydrangeas. Exquisite whichever they are.

Every time you post photos, I have a new favorite, @SilverStormm. This time it's your hydrangeas. So lovely!

All they have to do to solve the problem is delete the verb. Someone's already done so in the user alert that accompanies each thread. I don't know why they're not consistent about it.

And presumably didn't get pursued and incarcerated if they happened to go to another state to have that procedure done. Or get ratted out by their neighbor. You know, the usual.

Well, the NIH disagrees with your colleague. Maybe s/he got a bad batch of poppy seeds. And I was just kidding. I'm pretty sure EtoT doesn't get tested for opiates.

I bet you're right! I was the only kid I've ever heard of who chugged prune juice from the bottle. Apparently it's an acquired taste. Don't eat the mohn ones if you have to be drug-tested, though.

I've been waiting for someone to mention hamantaschen with mohn (poppy seed) filling. My grandmother used to do those for me, since I don't typically like things filled with fruit jams. It prompted me to look up how to make it. And maybe I will!

Thanks so much for turning me on to this wonderful series, @praeceptrix! I just spent the past hour bingeing a bunch. Great new addiction (as if I needed another one).

When I think back, it seems as if brown sugar turning into concrete is a recent thing. I don't know why. I'd probably need a dozen clay disks to keep a whole container soft, because the one I do use is definitely not up to the job.

I'd tell her your mom already gave those things away to people who loved her when they came to visit her while she was alive. And then 🖕 (the official state gesture of NY). Let her prove you wrong.

I tried a version of this--put a damp paper towel over it and nuke it in bursts till it softens--but the problem is that I have to do the whole container of sugar to get whatever fraction of it I need. Then I put what I didn't use back in the pantry to cementify itself all over again. And I'd swear that the nuking changes the texture somehow. 🤷‍♀️

I don't think I've ever known about this stuff. Can you use it instead of regular brown sugar in any baking application? I'm so frustrated with brown sugar. It gets hard as a rock in spite of the little terra-cotta disk that's supposed to keep it soft. My new strategy is to buy a fresh package and immediately repack it in a vacuum-sealed bag. We'll see if that actually works. I'm learning so much from you today! Yeah, I do them, but I think I've already done them all. Now I have to go check. I never do any puzzle stuff on paper anymore. I reserve the right to get pissed about this in the future.

My mistake.

That's the season in which the woman who won was later charged with the murder of a three-year-old adopted child.

Gorgeous! The tulips are my new favorite!

Some tenants are long-term. And if the family knows of other people who lived in the building back then, I'm guessing the NBC research team wouldn't have that hard a time in finding a few. 😁

It was so painfully obvious. I wondered why they didn't try to obfuscate it a little bit by interviewing some other tenants in her building to get their reactions, but I guess that would've taken some actual effort.

Maybe there was something I missed, but I really couldn't see the point to it. I was looking forward to saving all these unadoptable apples and onions from the rubbish pile of other people's high standards and feeling all superior, but it didn't seem to turn out that way. Oh, well.

I forgot to come back and report on Misfits Market. Well, we got our box--we ordered specific items, didn't get their random choices--and it was just regular produce. Nothing looked especially misshapen or deformed in some other way. The prices weren't remarkably lower--or even much lower at all. Shipping wasn't cheap. We canceled our membership and probably won't be buying again on a onetime basis either.