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1. 6 days ago on Yes, I'm Hot in This

   Then help me understand. Provide me a specific scenario in which you, personally, have felt threatened, intimidated, uncomfortable, whatever, solely because of what a woman chose to wear that day. Perhaps also clarify why you were uncomfortable?

2. 7 days ago on Yes, I'm Hot in This

   I really hope this is you doing a bad job of making it clear that you’re just kidding.

3. 15 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Jacques, the cleaning fish from “Finding Nemo.”

4. 15 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   First grade started here last Monday. As did gymnastics, a brand-new extracurricular activity, courtesy of Mimi and Dziadziu not paying attention to the deadline for youth soccer registration.

   At 5:45 last Thursday, The Girl was sure it wasn’t something she wanted to do. At 7:05 last Thursday she didn’t want to leave.

5. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   No one suggested Chester? None of you have ever read “The Cricket In Times Square”?

6. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   Ember becomes oddly annoyed when she lays on my printer and accidentally presses the power button.

7. about 2 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Only 3,000?

8. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Prepare to be shocked: the ignorant American is informally acquainted with Kitchener. :-) (Kidding. Sort of.) Although I’ve never been, I know where it is and know at least one of its residents, a fellow participant in a now-defunct fantasy baseball league.

   I plan to visit your beautiful province next year. As a fan of Gordon Lightfoot, I plan to visit Detroit next November for the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald at the Mariners Church. From there I will visit Toronto, where one item on the itinerary is paying my respects at the gravesite of the doctor who is the reason I’m able to walk. Perhaps I can detour into Kitchener if there is anything you could recommend.

9. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Meh. I’d argue “price point” is a little different from “skill set” with respect to Rat’s objections. “Skill set” is (somewhat correctly) being derided as a fancy way to say “skills.”

   By contrast, “price point” is an approximate amount someone is willing to spend. “My price point for a car is $20,000” could mean you are willing to spend $22,000 under the right conditions (or, if you are the seller, willing to accept $18,000 under the right conditions) whereas “price” on its own carries more of a connotation that $20,000 is the most you are willing to spend (or, in the other direction, your non-negotiable selling price).

10. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Thank you. I was trying to figure out a SFW way to explain that.