Posts by Amy Gale
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But for some reason it works with peach fuzz. At least it make real hair show up faster than if you just leave it.
How has this been tested? Twin studies?
(Imagine the research facility. "First Floor: ESP. Second Floor: Differential Peach Fuzz Shaving.")
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Fathers - I couldn't think of anything they specifically did.
Run BBQ stalls at school fairs? Dispense pocket money?
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Re Obama, I got the following from my father, apparently a quote from Chris Rock: "Excellent black people have always been compensated for excellence. Always. The real equality is when we can have a black president as dumb as George Bush. That's when we're really equal. That's when the dream has come true."
With appropriate substitutions, this is why I always felt a bit sorry for Christine Rankin.
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Maybe you could round up some local kids, hand out ice cream containers, and propose a bounty of 10c per koura delivered?
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I have had years on end without crawfish. There should be a law against that.
You can't approximate them with (freshwater) koura?
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But that doesn't explain why I now hear of spider biting when I had never done so before. Are there more of them now?
Maybe they've found out about the bug vacuums and they're fighting back?
I don't mind insects/arachnids on the whole, but am suitably revolted by infestations. Have a strong memory of walking back to my NYC apartment one night with a rather wealthier friend. There was a cockroach on the outside of the apartment door. I squished it. My friend said "oh, is that what cockroaches look like?". Yeah. You'll never live like common people.
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My partner used to be a bit leery of spiders, but I'm utterly terrified, so he's had to show a bit more ovarian fortitude.
You can, at least in the land of opportunity, buy special little vacuum cleaners designed to suck up insects from Quite A Long Way Away. I think the more advanced ones even have little built in bug zappers.
I know this is true, because I've seen them in the Sky Mall catalog.
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Some people will put raisins in anything. It's a plague.
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Why don't I ever understand anything Mark says?
I think there may be some kind of automated prose-generator underneath. Many of the sentences are grammatically correct - or close to it - but don't make any actual sense.
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I do also now recall that "coffee bun" was in fairly common usage in my 70s/80s Wellington childhood.