Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Dragon Lady wrote:Also, feel free to show off, too.

This is what I got for me... uh, I mean... for my wife:

My wife went through something similar because she had a multitude of names, including a first name that is her mother's name that she has never used and that she was considering dropping. She might comment if she reads this, but if I remember correctly, the Social Security Card was the lynch pin of...

I first encountered the physical board in the Wilk in 1998, but didn't start reading regularly online until years later.

So someone who graduated 7 or 8 years ago starts to have a higher level of separation from the core readership. As someone who graduated 9 and 5 years ago, I can personally vouch for this. I had to consciously avoid being a curmudgeon during the alumni week (and I still might have failed), because ...

Actually, it's neither "white" nor "to be", but rather "stalk" (byllia in Ukrainian; bylinka in Russian). Chernobyl' literally means "black stalk", but is also the common name for a particular plant (called mugwort in English). Ah, interesting, thanks for cle...

For a secondary perspective, in Czech, "kraj" also means region/county/locality, and "krajina" means country as in countryside. I always interpreted Ukrajina (Ukraine) to be a combination of the preposition "u", meaning roughly "at", and "krajina" to...

This thread is ridiculous. For the record, my pride is just fine. Those of you who know me know that I don't take myself too seriously (thus the hyperbole in my last response). As I said before, the level of passion some of you have for Internet strangers' opinions is amusing to me, but I think I've...

Depending on where they went to school and what their home life was like, they are unprepared for hours of research, seeing different points of view, managing their time, thinking deeply, and writing well. The fact that you honestly believe this applies to most people at BYU (and not yourself) is a...

Zedability responded before I could, and made several of the points I wanted to. I agree almost word for word with what she said. But since I typed this up, I'll shorten it and go ahead and post it anyway. Now that I'm mature... I think it's pretty obvious that Utah and especially BYU breed a follow...

Okay seriously, my inner perfectionist just shriveled up and died. Don't worry about it, Zedability, I wasn't trying to single you out*, I was just continuing the topic of answers that didn't quite go far enough. These are the ones I would read before becoming a board writer that made me want to be...

There was another example today of a similar kind of response. Questioner: [I'm getting weird text in my browser]... I've tried changing the character encoding, but this doesn't fix the problem. Board Answer: It sounds like you need to switch the character encoding settings on Firefox. Go to "V...

That kind of answer always bothers me, too, as an asker and a reader. Questions not actually being answered is actually the main reason I went from board friend to board writer. (Hopefully there aren't any examples of me doing it in the archives...) Maybe that's why I get along so well with The Clea...

My most prominent merger is feeling/filling which I really have to enunciate to distinguish. This reminds me of a funny story. I live in Texas (and grew up in Virginia) where there is a definite difference between fill and feel. At one of our stake conferences not too long ago, we had the local tem...

Regarding 68237, the book sounds like hogwash, but it got one of the best Amazon reviews I have ever read:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X2TB3S4O5I60

In defense of the DMV, it's not that we don't know how to drive in the snow, it's that we don't know how to drive on the ice... on hills. Because the climate is a little bit milder than other snowy places, and very humid, it is very common for the snow to fall, melt, then freeze again to form a laye...

Marduk here. Link is Question 61963 . Katya, if you're interested in more, in Czech it is Je mi dvacet let ([It] is to me twenty summers) Similar to Russian except Czech uses 'to be' verbs, which shows the curiosity that any number above 4 becomes singular (there are 4 dogs, there is 5 of dogs). Cz...

We have two regular carriers (Baby Bjorn and something similar) and my wife made a wrap one also. It seemed like she used the wrap more, but you could send her an email and ask.

42: That's exactly what I did (fancy camera after #2) but now I'm finding that I have lots of pictures, but no videos.

I have had similar feelings lately, albeit much more mild than yours, even as a GTWD (go-to-work dad). I know SAHMhood makes this to the Cleaning Lady feel like this as well. She's pretty good at maximizing her talents at home with sewing and piano lessons and she tries to do things like book club t...

A note concerning em dashes, the long dash preceding Laser Jock's sign out is unchanged. See http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/43668/ for one similar to your em dash example ( … ). It's obviously some kind of punctuation. http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/37796/ has a bunch of – which appear to ...