Don Edwards

If you're trying to keep something secret, don't tell your young children.

When all means become acceptable to oppose an evil, you become that evil.

Well, in this arc we have been doing a bit of shipping.

Wight lifting.

Second most recent place I had rice, achieved a strange symmetry in my meal.
The rice was undercooked, therefore hard and dry.
The salmon was overcooked, therefore hard and dry.

I first encountered the dessert hot sauces back around '96 or '97, shortly after they first came out. At the time, the packaging told the story behind the name.
The inventor of the recipes, at the time working a fairly ordinary but unspecified job, had somehow acquired the nickname "Toad". Also, unsurprisingly, he had acquired a reputation among his co-workers of being a fire-eater. Maybe bringing in samples to get outside feedback had something to do with that.
Well, one day he put some of a new recipe on his lunch. And it was a bit hotter than he expected. Got a visible reaction. From fire-eater Toad.
Someone else saw this and said "Hey, if it makes Toad sweat, I'm not touching it!"
And thus the name was born.

Darth's link, fixed (swapped the url and the display text)

Sounds like they're going to have a stable relationship.

I also suspect significant asymmetries in the distribution of literacy. Namely, a lot more of it in cities. In small villages, I suspect it was common that only the village priest - who might be on a circuit with four or five other villages - could read.

There are also several instances of "ring species." These happen when there's an obstacle to a species' spread that individuals can't cross, but can go around. Said obstacle being quite large, as compared to the distance individuals travel. So they spread around it in both directions, over multiple generations, with slight genetic drift... and when they finally meet again on the far side of the obstacle, the new neighbors can't interbreed. So variety A can cross with variety B, who can mate with variety C, and so on... but A and P, who are next-door neighbors, can't.
(Another puzzle of "where and how do you draw a species line?". Along with the notion that each individual is the same species as their own mother, but if you go some number of generations back then maybe they aren't the same species....)
There are some specimens from north-central Asia that carry the DNA of H.Sapiens Sapiens, H.Sapiens Neanderthalensis, H.Sapiens Denisova, and... um... those other H.Sapiens. Not Heidelbergensis. The ones we know absolutely nothing about except these odd traces of DNA in these specific specimens.

 
Edward & Sarah are, this far, the only regulars we have seen tired and grumpy.  
This my indicate that everyone else is not fully human. 
 

We always called it 'Bats in the Belfry'.

Everyone is weird. Details vary.

Heh. I did this in '22 on another forum...

♩♩♫♩♬♪♫
Don’t take your warmth away from me
Don’t you leave my arms all shivery
‘Cause I wish the night’s not through
And waking up is hard to do.

Remember when you held me tight
Warm blankets wrapped all through the night
So sound asleep the whole night through
And waking up is hard to do.

They say that waking up is hard to do
Now I know, I know that it’s true
Don’t say that this is the end
Instead of waking up I wish that I could fall asleep again

I beg of you, don’t make me glower
Can’t we stretch the night just one more hour?
Come on bed, I’ll stay with you
‘Cause waking up is hard to do.

(original gets repetitive after that)

(That's why I picked such a distant-past example.)

well, milking a marshmallow would probably be easier on the hands than milking an almond.

Forecast here is 75⁰F today, 58 tonight.
And I just had a leaky toilet fixed a few days ago, and last night the other one sprung the same sort of leak. Only more so, and since I was already asleep it ran for longer. I'll be spending a big chunk of the day hauling things out of the basement and setting them out to dry.

I think that's more of a "stop hating yourself over it" bonk.

Hope will fail in her intent. The magic will help Cinderted with the chores, but they'll use that to get more done rather than to get some time to themself or some rest.

A pedestal can be as confining as any other small space.

*ROAR snarl growl rowr*
...oh, sorry, make that...
pacman -syu ROAR snarl growl rowr

You guys are reminding me why I'm a snowbird...
(Kinda odd that snowbirds move away from snow, while snowbunnies flock to it...)

"Your diet is very simple. If it tastes good, spit it out."

 
Hm... (Note: it's been many years since I've played MtG, so I may not get all of the terminology right.)
Distracting Squirrel. Mana cost, 2 green.
0 damage, 1 health.
Tap (interrupt): 1 spell fails to affect this Squirrel.
Tap (interrupt): tap one other creature. If that creature is in combat, remove it from combat.
2 green: this Squirrel gains +1 health (edit:) until end of turn

Somebody needs to remind the Russian leadership that while it's ok to eat steak when there's a chicken in every pot, keep eating steak while your people have nothing and pretty soon you start to look like a chicken.