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Yay! In theme with your signature quote, WLIU name six (6) holders and/or demons trapped in the silver denarians in the Dresden Files. (Bonus points in the form of congratulations if you can name both for all six.)

1) Banana 2) Bubble gum 3) Band-aid 4) Bazooka 5) Bag 6) Beans 7) Binder clips 8) Blush (make-up) 9) Blueberries 10) Box 11) Bra 12) Boxers 13) Briefs 14) Boots 15) Beads 16) Butter 17) Boards (the wooden kind) 18) Brush 19) Beef 20) Bactine 21) Button 22) Bean bag 23) BLT Sandwich 24) Bratwurst 25) Bobble-head doll 26) Blu-ray disc 27) Barometer 28) Book light 29) Broccoli 30) Black light If the food counts, confirm and I'll add a new question.

It's because they're so darn cute...even if the Epic ponies have that whole insane evil vibe going. Watched some of season three this weekend (Sleepless in Ponyville, Wonderbolts Academy, Apple Family Reunion, Spike at your Service, Just for Sidekicks). I love that show. You can be in such a blah mood and one episode turns that all to smiles.

Lyrna was my favorite POV in that book. It's been several months since I read Tower Lord, but I don't think I was quite as disappointed as some others about it. Blood Song was just SO good, it was going to be hard to follow up, especially with a Book 2. Book 2's in trilogies tend to be the weakest, at least as a general rule. (There are definitely exceptions.) I'm looking forward to Queen of Fire very much, though. I'm hoping it takes all the set up of Tower Lord and channels the awesomeness of Blood Song.

Bonus answer: Arthur Dent. He just masters the skill of missing the ground when he falls. I could name a few, but no where near ten. Premier League, though? I'd have a better shot. Husband is a fan despite being on the other side of the pond.

So sad to hear he's departed from this world. He will be missed. If anyone is interested in some related reading, check this out.

Okay, I totally agree with the other three people who upvoted you before I did. You deserved it even before I read the longer explanation. Edit to add: This reminds me of a time when a neighborhood friend was over and lost a tooth while eating popcorn. The tooth fell on the floor, which was where our dog was stationed in case any stray popcorn pieces fell nearby. He promptly ate her tooth. We were of that age where someone (my mom? her parents?) wrote her a note to put under her pillow to the tooth fairy so that she could still get credit for the lost tooth. Edit to further add: Different boss, similar problem. This lady only works part time and left at 2:00 on a Thursday for the weekend. So, I have a matter that was assigned to me at a very late stage in the legal action because the prior paralegal left due to health reasons. Basically, all I've been doing is postponing the same thing over and over in the case since it was passed to me the beginning of the year. I know nada about the sordid history. Today, our client, who is allowed to do things like this what with them being our client and all, asks me to request the status of taxes on a property related to the matter. So, I send over a fax to the tax collector and provide a courtesy copy of said fax to the client and copy the boss lady/attorney because that's what we do here. You copy everyone on emails like this. From her phone, she writes me an accusatory email: "[My name], not sure what you mean. It sounds like this is new information. Were you not previously aware of [tax issues]? We knew [blah blah blah]." Um, yes, it is new information TO ME. No, I was NOT previously aware. See previous answer. By "we" you mean you and the poor woman who left for medical reasons, right? Because you can't possibly mean me. I'm having to piece the entire history of the file together based on what I find in our computer system in five minutes' time. So, back off, lady. This just means I need to do another sweep of openings in my ongoing job hunt. Had one interview two weeks ago (interview went well, commute was terrible, they are considering me for a position they don't have hiring authority for yet anyway) and need to see if anything new is out there. *le sigh *

Twylight, do you secretly work in my office? (I know you don't, but I feel ya, girl.) Because when this happens, it's like armageddon around here. And I'm like you. I very rarely make mistakes (at least the conscious kind), so when I do and that coworker that likes to rub salt in open wounds for fun decides to give me that speech or, worse, it's the boss I call "His Majesty" and he decides to call a whole meeting between the paralegals, of which I am one, to tell us to do something we do already save for this one instance in the past three years, it REALLY grates on me. The one time I'm thinking of, it was about these case management forms we are all supposed to update. First, it's not even a real software system for tracking legal actions, it's a Word document. Second, he was all in a tizzy because current address information for defendants and dates they received a particular legal pleading were not entered into it. Turns out, we were still waiting on ALL that information from the vendor we use, so there was no information to put in yet. Despite this, he freaks out and has his passive-aggressive secretary first inform me he's not happy by asking repeated where the stuff is, then calls a meeting that afternoon all about updating these forms in a timely fashion. Unless I'm supposed to be a time-traveler who can go into the future, there was no way to make this guy happy. Man, I so greatly dislike this guy. (Trying really hard to not say hate. Hate the actions, not the person.) Anyhow, the times when someone makes even a simple mistake around here are even worse. No one actually did any wrong in that example I just gave. Anyhow, all that to say I 100% understand your predicament and feelings regarding the situation and this coworker of yours. Not cool, lady, not cool.

When they're announcing an upcoming concert on the radio and the female announcer says "Bastille" and your first thought is, "Bastille is talking to me through the radio!" instead of the intended musical group/band.

You know, I have purposefully avoided Equestria Girls. If we had small children in our house or over frequently, particularly if they were girls, I probably couldn't have escaped for so long. All the friends we have with kids have boys! Only one of them has watched MLP:FiM with us, and he laughed his head off at Pinkie Pie (he is four). The other boys, well, one is way too into Star Wars and Marvel and considers all the pink in MLP an affrontery. And his younger brother totally follows his lead. Kobold, I can't get to youtube at work, so maybe....maybe?....I'll come back to that link later.

Oh, Meg, so sorry you had to go through that. Sometimes things get out of your control (this can include reactions and feelings), and it never is helpful for someone to make the experience worse, which is what your chief/boss did. Again, so sorry you had to deal with this today. Have another hug. *HUG *

New Jersey? Really?! I'll PM you. Also, I KNEW you'd laugh. Glad you enjoyed that.

If the first, I'm currently stuck with only two.

Really need to get to watching this show. If it can suck my husband into binge watching, I would be very happy with that outcome. I'm must more likely to binge watch things and he's a one episode at a time guy. This sounds like it might help his desire to watch more episodes in a row. Cowboy Bebop = love. Hmm...Eureka 7 is a show I've put off watching for years. My curiosity is peaked by your comment.

skaa, you totally get an upvote for Chesterton. I really need to read more of his writing. I've read quite a few of his Father Brown short stories and tiny bits and pieces of other things. I voted for Elantris. It was the first book I read of Brandon's, followed shortly thereafter by the Mistborn trilogy. Because I read Mistborn so soon after and was blown away by it, I definitely subscribe to the His-Writing-Just-Keeps-Getting-Better-and-Better camp. I recently re-read Elantris and Warbreaker, which I love, and that just solidified Elantris as my least favorite. Like everyone else, though, just because it's my least favorite doesn't mean I don't still love it.

Ooooo, I can do this!!Big MacIntosh (sp?) Granny Smith Miss Cheerily (sp?) Mr. Cake Mrs. Cake Scootaloo Apple Bloom Diamond Tiara Flim Flam Etc. Etc. Etc. Edit because I had to think of a question... WLIU, name six Elves from the Lord of the Rings and related books other than Galadriel, Elrond, Arwen and Legolas.

Man, I missed all this talk about snow because I didn't get online at all this weekend...while it was snowing where I live. XD I'm one of those people who LOVES snow so long as I don't have to drive in it. If I have to shovel, I want it to be on a day when our office had to shut down because we got too much snow. Then I can go back inside afterwards and look at the pretty stuff from the warmth of my own home, preferably with a hot beverage in hand. I do love the look of it more than anything. What I don't like about snow, as mentioned above, is having to travel in it. We were headed to church yesterday morning after getting about 6 inches followed by freezing rain (we'd gotten 5 inches a few days before that), which just made the roads slick and terrible, and saw a vibrant blue car off the road and sitting in the drainage ditch at a 'happy' 30-40 degree angle. The police had stopped and it didn't look like anyone had been hurt, but I bet that car and its owner didn't like the outcome of slippery roads one bit. Then there were all the other idiot drivers out there who decided to slam on their brakes because of the police car when the roads basically are covered with icy slush. BAD IDEA. Maxal, I thought of you when it went from 1 F (~ -17 C) here up to 30 F (~0 C) and above because of you being in Canada. I was clearing the cars off after the temps had gone up and was only doing it with a sweatshirt and gloves on instead of being fully bundled up. It felt like Spring compared to the temps around 0 F (lower with windchill). I thought of you because you'd probably be laughing that 0 F felt so bitterly cold to us where I am. I'll be glad when the winter is over. Then I'll have humid, hot days to complain about in the Summer due to living on the East Coast of the US.

Ooooo, you're working on a pony pic?! Do join the crowd Herd!

From what I could tell from my read through of the thread, there wasn't a hard and fast rule for a time limit. Wasn't there one point where one day was determined a "win" also? Anyhow, I definitely can't answer the Scrubs question either...so sad...

Oh, nice! My husband is also a redhead. He doesn't care, but I try to encourage specific colors for him to wear, too. (He's not the best with colors and matching anyway. He's not technically color blind, but he does have trouble with mixing up different colors that are of similar shade.) For almost anyone so pale, white is a terrible idea. (Sorry for the assumption you were a guy... I'm not sure what made me think that! Edit to add: After thinking about this more, I think my brain was making connections between names that begin with K and Brandon characters, because he's got some main characters who are male with K names. On this site, it's no wonder... )

I should probably avoid this. I think any regular Mario game is unfair. I'm jumping-challenged and die very easily as it is.

If I was your mother or now-wife, the only thing I'd be concerned with is whether or not your hair clashed with the color scheme for the wedding. Purple goes with a lot, so it was probably fine. By the way, when I was in college a long time ago (I'm also mid-thirties), my grandmother found out I'd died a portion of my hair light purple and threatened to stop sending me $20 in the mail every now and then. Instead of not doing it again, I just made sure I didn't do it anytime I knew I'd see someone from home. It was wash-out stuff anyway that disappeared after a few weeks. Also, hugs to all those dealing with parents who like to push buttons. *HUGS *

I definitely agree that it can lead to another injustice, but I think it is still worthwhile to encourage women, especially young women, to pursue interests in areas and fields that were and may still be male-dominated in the past. I don't think they should be judged on a different scale or chosen over a superior male-counterpart just because they're of the female gender. I guess I would personally draw the line with encouraging young women. (Hopefully that encouragement would help them to make choices for themselves with ALL the options in front of them.) There's no need to force or even strongly encourage employers or organizations to pick a female candidate just because she's female. Having been a young woman interested in math and science (with an education bent), which is often one of the areas that gets attention at least in the academic world, I've seen first hand the mostly unintentional push for women to look into different areas of study than math and science. It often comes into play when girls are at a young and impressionable age and by well-meaning teachers, parents and peers. This kind of thing can happen with boys, too, but there's not as much history or at least not history with the same flavor. I'd sum all that up by saying there is a definite difference in encouraging the less-represented party to pursue their interests (even if they're not what most find conventional) and putting measures in place to force/coerce organizations/employers to meet percentage quotas by bringing in those same less often seen parties.

Um...except women aren't broken? I think it's fine to encourage women to get into fields that have been male-dominated in the past; however, I will go on to agree with you that often times this gets taken too far to the point where men, in this example, start to feel the discrimination instead. Edit to add: Sorry to get nit-picky about your broken-leg example. I'm terrible at coming up with them myself so don't have a lot of room to speak.

You see this article about a Vast Bed of Metal Balls being found and immediately wonder if flooding the Pits of Hathsin caused these to gather on the ocean floor. (Edit to add: The thought occurred before reading the article, which actually goes on to say what metal they're made of and the size (softball-sized).)