Scored 49.  Would've scored higher, but I'm LDS (Mormon) so the Evangelicals weren't much interested in being friends with me (though I did have Jewish, Sikh, agnostic, and Wiccan friends), and there weren't a lot of smokers in my circle.  Mother was first-generation upper-middle class of working-class stock; father 2nd generation upper-middle.  My parents made a point of seeing to it that we were rather "cultured" compared to many of the others around me.  Still, I chose to live in small-town Utah, so I got more points for that than my upbringing would have given me.

My anti-depressant is preparation.  I may not be able to stop the decline when it comes, but I can resist it.  Like the monks of the Dark Ages who preserved what knowledge they could, someday I will be remembered as one who kept the fire of knowledge, however small, still burning somewhere, tended by generations to come until it can be used to kindle a new renaissance.

Turkey pot pies and turkey soup.

The Portuguese way (or at least how it was a century or more ago) was for women to keep their own surnames at marriage.  It makes doing genealogical research a piece of cake, compared to more northerly European cultures.

The downside to it was that people chose their own surnames, often drawing on grandparents' surnames or even religious surnames like Conceiçao or da Gloria.  So unless you were a titled family, you usually didn't have the same surname as your parents.

It was even worse in the Philippines, where around 1850ish the governor sent out a decree saying "Pick a surname and pass it on to your children."  A list of acceptable surnames was circulated, but since it had to be copied by hand, frequently the pages were split up and sent to different villages.  Thus there are entire villages in the Philippines where everyone's last name starts with the same letter.

I suppose it's a good thing UL doesn't try to certify firearms then...

It's just going to get worse.  Buy some wheat and a grinder, and learn how to make bread.

Funny, you sound like MY husband!  His nose is a lot like yours.  I swear he can walk into the house, take one sniff, and tell how many poopy diapers I've changed that day, even if I've taken them outside.  I'd better keep him away from any Occupy demonstrations; bad smells drive him bonkers.

Sadly, I think the stench will only serve to convince them they're doing the right thing.  Look what they have to give up to be there!  Besides, you're just suffering from bourgeois smellist prejudices.

Me too.  I want one of those shirts to put my gun in!

This is true.  Personally I went with spices, which have historically been a really profitable trade good, and which (being LDS) I know much more about than whiskey.

I don't have much in the way of resources, so I'm going with sacks of wheat and a 9mm pistol to defend them with.

"Make Love Not War"... "Can't We Do Both?"

My grandfather formally had only a high school education, but he was self-educated to the college level.  His home was filled with books on every subject.  When he cleaned out a room to convert it into a bedroom, I got his copy of Calculus For The Practical Man.

I'd like to think I'm following in his footsteps a bit.  I'm studying Japanese on my own, just for fun.

My kids went as characters from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist.

Left to right, that's 2LT Heymans Breda, Edward Elric, 1LT Riza Hawkeye, and May Chang with her panda Shao May.

In my 18 years of continuous marriage to the same man, I've found generally that when I've been a better wife, I've had a better husband, and vice versa.  A good-sized portion of marriage consists in how you approach it.

I read a very interesting article once (wish I could find it now...) on IP in the magic business.  The thrust of the article was that since you can copyright the writing of a trick but not the performing of a trick, magicians have very few legal protections for their work.  So they developed social protections to compensate.  They thoroughly and severely ostracize any magician who dares to copy another magician's work.  These social sanctions for IP violations are very effective.

So even if we don't have legal protections for IP, we can still enforce the kind of rules that encourage people to produce IP, in the right social environment.  (Whether we currently have that kind of social environment, or could "get there from here", is certainly debatable.)