I second the Copper nomination.  It is da bomb.  We watched it during its regular run last year and can't wait for the second season.  Also, I am probably the only person in America who has never seen an episode of 24, so I have started grinding my way through that on Netflix.

Do we have to go through this again?  The last time it was so ugly, and I left whatever there was of my dignity on the field.  I am more hateful but still diminished as a result.

Subject change!  FG, are you a Wolf Den leader?  Mr. Mc and I are Bear Den leaders this year ... on to Webelos for next year.

CS, cash is definitely the universal gift.

Joan re #3410, you are cracking me up.  Even in my hate-fog, you know I wish FRG only the best.  He is a nice guy, who took me on A FEW very nice dates (AND he took me fishing! bonus points!), and introduced me to his very nice family.  I think he ditched me, although it's been so many years ago, who knows.  His mother probably warned him:  She looks nice now but I can see the hate in her--run far away.  Is the matronly parading w/cigar a Chinese thing?  Regardless, I am intrigued by this silk toilet roll you speak of.  Hmmmm.

I feel hatefully important now, but not one cent less petty.  You've appeased my vanity, oh king of petty cash.

All you haters are on a roll today.  I am glued to the computer screen on my day off,  spewing Irish breakfast tea all over the text.

PLEASE NOTE that I should be shopping for a graduation gift instead of following you losers, who should be working or packing or swabbing your toilets or something.

As penance for your evil deeds, please amble over to my pitiful graduation gift thread and give me some gift ideas.  Because as usual, my shortcomings are all your fault.   Be aware that my thread is outside the "circle of hate," where others may misunderstand the bond we share--temper your responses accordingly.

http://ricochet.com/member-feed/I-am-really-bad-at-graduation-gifts

Big John--Thanks for this great idea.  We love Raising Cane's!  We always make it a point to eat there when we visit home.  Our nephews introduced us to it several years ago when they opened a store in Bossier.

He's our nephew.

P, you are on a roll with the quotes.  I loved the Captain Ahab quote over on King Dime's hate thread.

I would take on #2, but I'm holding out for my royal title.  Not only am I hateful, I'm petty.

Shilly-shallying sounds like something you'd do when you're feeling in touch with your feminine side.  Even though it's totally a gender-neutral verb.

Royal title of course.

I'm especially liking this one, ES.  I learned to tie a tie when my 9-year-olds decided they wanted to wear ties to school to impress girls.  We stood in the dressing room at Kohl's watching "how to make a Windsor knot" videos on You-Tube trying on ties and shirts.  Good times.  Although the other people in the dressing room probably wondered what the heck we were doing in there.  In the end, we decided a four-in-hand was fancy enough for 3rd grade.

You guys are awesome so far!  Being a bookworm, I'm really good at buying books as gifts, but outside that, I'm pretty hopeless.  Anyhoo, this graduate is headed for LSU pre-med, so feel free to take that into account in your calculations on my behalf.

Joan: What! My credentials aren't good enough for you? Do you not have have a degree from the same institution? Maybe the standards aren't so rigorous in the b-school. What was that diploma printed on--foolscap? Or was it just pulp fiction.

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