“belly up on my lap” I’d be eviscerated trying to achieve this step with the cat I have now. All our previous cats were, well, pussycats about nail clipping compared to her. I finally had to resort to a dose of gabapentin, which barely slows her down but enables me to get one claw at a time over about 3 hours, with a toothy treat after every claw, and plenty of freedom and “da bee” playtime in between to tire her out.

Might be more effective to make him stay in it, all the way down

I enjoy Earl Grey tea plain, but I can’t call it “black,” even though it’s “black tea.” Because it’s orange-ish brown. 🐈

Black coffee is much blacker 🐈‍⬛

You made points others didn’t, and your edit demonstrates another aspect of the alone/crowd response to a prompt.

Laughing with a “crowd” supports you until you realize you were alone all the time, whereas thinking you’re the only commenter frees you to share your insights, but finding you were part of a crowd made you embarrassed about it. Don’t be. We all know being first allows comments to get more points, but more slowly typed comments also add value to the conversation.

True, but also the consequences of living homeless in New England would force you to either come up with some kind of way to afford shelter or move south. Whereas more homeless people die on the streets in California than you might expect, but the perception is that you can live outdoors safely all year. So there’s less incentive to scrape together enough money for a home.

Add to that, very few people move to New England with a crazy idealistic view of their opportunities to make it big. If they move there at all, it’s because they have a job lined up. Dreamers crash and burn in California every day.

Did it, though? My 90 year old mother used it in the same way since her childhood. I think it’s always been sarcastic, probably from use by lowly soldiers. In the phrase, she pronounces and spells it as “gummint work” even though she would normally say “government.”

It’s just the spiders under your skin.

But maybe it’s the nerves or capillaries that run through the layers of fat and skin, as walking shakes them up and gets the blood pulsing through. Even in fit people the skin shakes a little as it slides back and forth over the moving muscles. Once you get into a serious workout, there’s too much other sensation from the muscles and tendons, and the blood vessels are as busy and hopefully open as they’re going to get.

Bear in mind I have no actual idea, just speculating.

It could only help.

I expect a lot were raised as such by their parents/community, which isolates them from society as a whole. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out once they get exposure to other mindsets. And gurls.

I don’t know enough to say this but I can ask it: If being ultra-orthodox exempts you from service, doesn’t that provide an incentive to become ultra-orthodox? So will this cause more people to fall out of ultraorthodoxy? Or is there no joining involved, just being born into it?

God forbid those with fatal defects should die before they had enough nervous system to fully appreciate the pain of their death. Or rather, Texas forbade, in the name of God. Isn’t there a commandment about that?

The pointed gun and Rust is giving me Alec Baldwin vibes, especially in the context of Netflix. Then I realized what instance I had landed in from All.

Or does, and took them home!

Well who would want to stay where the workweek is so grueling? Make it a 30 hour week, cut the application paperwork, and see who stays

There’s also the top baggy, bottom tight and top tight, bottom flared cycle, and the waistline and foot-hemline go up and down, and they never sync back up to a style you have left over.

The key to Gomez energy is his sincerity. You might not be able to draw a Morticia (because she’s probably already got a Gomez) but a Fester with sincerity who aims with his heart rather than his eyes/dick has a good chance of finding true love.

Pretty sure the only guns Eve carried were her own biceps but she’d make use of anything available. Flynn and Jenkins have both wielded Excalibur. Ezekiel would rather use evasion but has been known to steal a weapon. Mild-mannered historian Jacob knows how to use weapons of any age and besides we all know him from Leverage. Cassandra has non-weapon skills but she’s been known to bonk a baddie on the back of the noggin.

Lapis Lazuli was traded along the Silk Road, and Homer would have called it Sapphirus. A stormy sea isn’t blue because it’s not reflecting a blue sky, and it may have roiled-up sand and kelp.

Tajín makes watermelon so much more refreshing!

I’ve always felt that unselfish wishes are more likely to get a pass from the monkey’s paw.