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9 years ago @ The Toast - How To Tell If You Are... · 0 replies · +19 points

Have the De Lesseps relatives across the pond? Mayhap in Innsmouth or Arkham?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Women Who Are Dating P... · 0 replies · +39 points

There's a reason "screamed like a peacock" used to be an expression.

A friend of mine, when he was a small boy, was once chased around a zoo by an angry peacock. "You stepped on my hen attractors! I keeeeeel you!"

9 years ago @ The Toast - Women Who Have Gone Ba... · 4 replies · +25 points

No Proper Lady by Isabel Cooper. The author is a net-friend of mine.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The King O' The Cats · 0 replies · +10 points

I either read, or mis-remember, a version of the story in which the cats' line was, "Tell the heir that the King of the Cats is dead," and the man to whom they speak re-tells this story as, "So here's this super weird thing that happened to me..."

Stephen Vincent Benét also did a very interesting rendition of this story; in that, the heir apparent is not just a kitty, but a conductor with a cat's tail, who is wooing the main character's fiancée. The main character tells this story to convince his competition to go elsewhere... but there's an implication at the end that his fiancée may have gone off to become Queen of the Cats anyway.

9 years ago @ The Toast - So Are We Just Not Goi... · 0 replies · +4 points

Well, "show folk" of all stripes had scandalous reputations for ages. Some of that is due to the fact that travelling theatres and circuses did sometimes make a bit of money on the side by having pet pickpockets and whoring out some of their stars. A lot of performers were libertines by nature, as well. Then later, there was the whole "casting couch" thing, in which actresses were pressured into furthering their career by giving sexual favours.

9 years ago @ The Toast - We Are Closing The Toa... · 0 replies · +2 points

Aww, I only recently discovered this place. But I respect your decision.

9 years ago @ The Toast - At Last, Someone Has C... · 0 replies · +5 points

My roommate, upon finding out that Slade from Teen Titans was originally called "Deathstroke": "Why did he pick a handle for himself? His last name was sinister enough!"

9 years ago @ The Toast - Happy Bette Davis Frid... · 0 replies · +8 points

OMG, yes, this. I had also read "You Never Promised Me a Rose Garden" not too long before watching this, and my mother and I were all, "What? No! You don't lie to your patients!"

9 years ago @ The Toast - David Brooks Writes a ... · 0 replies · +18 points

I'd find it easier if Brooks weren't such a constant and shameless liar. Hell, I'd find Brooks easier to defend if he confined his lies to the modern era, instead of spreading lies about history.

10 years ago @ The Toast - What Wouldn't You Do W... · 0 replies · +2 points

This makes me think of a conversation I had back when I worked at a ladies' clothing store. We had fashion magazines in the back, and I remarked to one of my co-workers that I really didn't understand why people would buy, say, a bunch of fancy designer purses. She kept insisting that I'd think differently if I became rich.

Yeah, I never really fit in at that job.

It's not that I couldn't think of plenty of less-than-practical things to buy, but they'd be more along the lines of cosplay, fantasy art, bladed weapons, and armour. Also computer stuff, but I think that's getting into the "more practical" line.

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