Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

So there are 18 babies due in my ward right now. This might be normal for a provo ward. Not sure? But I live it Texas, so this is not even close to normal for us. Anyways, the RS presidency I think got a little too excited about this. So, in their monthly email announcements, my Relief Society anno...

Hmm. Well, if he was your full uncle, his baby would be your (first) cousin, he would be your kid's great uncle, and your kid and his kid would be first cousins once removed. "Half uncle" isn't a very common term, to say nothing of terms like "half cousin," "half great uncle...

Flowers? The thing is, it doesn't sound like she needs stuff so much as she needs emotional support. So, I think that anything that reminds her that you're thinking about her would be fine, even if it is something she could buy for herself. (Or could you bake something with strawberries/blueberries ...

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This is a really tough situation and my heart goes out to this person.

having an existential crisis about childcare. Am I saying caring for my child isn't worthwhile because I pay less than minimum wage? Or am I enabling my friend to make a little money on the side while she does the SAHM thing? :| Maybe you're saying that your childcare needs are such that this type ...

Portia wrote:Internecine disputes about the appointment of the next Supreme Court justice erupted before Antonin Scalia's body was even on its catafalque.

FTW

internecine - destructive to both sides in a conflict

The protracted internecine conflict rendered both leaders diaphoretic.

For better or for worse, the Board Board hasn't been attracting new active users at all for the past year or two. Also, for better or for worse, the Board Board's target audience has become very different from the Board's target audience. It is substantially older and substantially less Mormon. I h...

tontine: an annuity shared by subscribers to a loan or common fund, the shares increasing as subscribers die until the last survivor enjoys the whole income (I had come across this word before—on a Simpsons episode, no less!—but I'd never seen it written out and I thought it was spelled differently....

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Good answers, all around, but I especially liked Ardilla's plug for The Chronicles of Chrestomanci and Rubik's plug for The Black Cauldron. Those are both great books.

Whistler wrote:I heard it was because the actor didn't want to do anymore seasons

I hate that. I hate it when they kill off characters, anyway, but if they're planning to do it from the start, at least they tend to set it up better.

epicine - having characteristics of both sexes or no characteristics of either sex; of indeterminate sex.

The debate over nonbinary pronouns (such as "epicine") escalated until it was a regular donnybrook.

Tally M. wrote:Nothing like waking up from a dream of your crush holding your hand up remind you how single you are.

I once had a dream where a guy who'd dumped me a few months previously . . . dumped me again. Thanks, subconscious!

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Tally wrote:You can trust me: I'm a linguistics major.

donnybrook - a scene of uproar and disorder; a heated argument etymology: Named from Donnybrook Fair, a notoriously disorderly event, held annually from 1204 until the middle of the 19th century. Source: The Wilderness, by McKay Coppins The panjandrum was powerless to restore order to the donnybrook.

panjandrum - a person who has or claims to have a great deal of authority or influence

Source: A book on lexicography

I was skeptical of the panjandrum's speech, but I'll give him points for the solid peroration.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/84674/ The article " Men Must Be Needed Because We Can't Be Wanted " has given me a lot of insight into certain types of male insecurity. The gist of it is that society tells men they're not good enough unless their wife/family is completely dependent on t...

My husband doesn't even register when I put mail in prominent places that are his unless it's a package. This is an interesting view into the darker corners of cohabitation. I already feel so overwhelmed by household tasks. Bringing a man into it is making me silently scream. :-P If postal absentmi...

I dreamed I had Hamilton tickets but no way to get to New York.

In regards to BQ #84584 about light sensitivity, I sneeze when I first see a really bright light. For example, I used to sneeze nearly every day at lunch in elementary because I would walk outside and the sun would usually be high and bright enough that it would cause me to sneeze, but only just af...