Katie’s favorite Family Guy moment is when aliens, watch the Griffith family from outer space, ponder who can actually hear Stewie. Seth McFarlane attempts to explain.
The Great Librarian Stereotypes of 2011. We’ll let Chelsie weigh in on this one.
Someone went and analyzed James Bond’s outfits from Diamonds are Forever.
“Literally” is literally the most-used word.
Whatever you do, avoid getting mystically pregnant!
“Why I am a black, male feminist.”
“Americanisms” that British people hate. Katie’s keeping a list to bug her grandmother this Christmas (just kidding, Dad).
Spot the eight differences (via Lesley).
Jess of Animated Cardigan visited our blog and then Katie lost two hours of her life going through all the archives. This lady can color and pattern mix with the best of them (all while explaining Latin)!
Millie saw a thumbnail of one of these pictures of shaking dogs and thought it was a gnarled tree stump.
This is a real thing. Katie can’t get over the song at the end. And who’s the little guy sitting on the bathtub?
She is a super-dooper pooper. She knows when she has to go. Take a bow, she’s a big girl now. She’s the best pooper we know!
Millie may or may not’ve sniffled a bit at the end of this love story between two milk cartons.
Clearly the cast of Star Trek have excellent fashion sense.
The discussion at Hook and Eye about salaries of academics is well worth a read.
Sometimes state flags wish they were superheroes
The Breastfeeding Doll raises questions about gender, social expectations, feminism and expectations of mothers.
For a lot of those Americanisms, I wouldn’t even have given them a second thought! What’s wrong with train station, for cripe’s sake? And my German professor in college liked to point out that with “I’m good” instead of “I’m well” we’re just going back to our German roots where there isn’t a distinction.
Re: the librarian thing…I may be guilty of stereotyping librarians sometimes because I have a wee little certainty in the back of my mind that librarianing is the most awesome thing and that librarians are the most awesome people. I daydream sometimes about becoming a librarian someday, even though I know there are far more people who want to be librarians than there are libraries that can give them jobs. My dreams of working with books in some way, shape, or form are often unrealistic.
The pronunciation complaints bug me – just get over it. Shocking that over the course of 400 years our accents and pronunciations changed every now and then. And I don’t know any British people who still say “fortnight.”
Okay, was anyone else thinking about how dirty that teddy bear now is during that video? Dad should have stipulated, wash your hands, then touch the bear. And the 8 differences, once I got it, cracked me up!
I know! That uber-germy bear!
THAT POOR MIIIIIIILK CAAAAAARTON!!!! ~stifled sob~
Remember Mia, if you’re speaking with a German don’t say “ich bin gut” as it implies “I am good— IN THE SACK, YO!” Not polite dinner conversation, even when it’s perfectly true. Stick with “ich gehts gut,” and no one will snort milk out their nose while addressing you. Which brings us right back to the POOR MIIIIIIIIILK —- which I would have liked better if the lady-milk hadn’t had big, red lips. Then again, maybe this is a tale of butch and femme milk, or two dudely milk jugs? Or maybe I should stop assigning sexual preferences to milk jugs. But why else would one jug have big, red lips on its sticker?
Bedtime. I’m overthinking again.