I love Liz Climo’s stuff so much! Always just tickles me.

Ex-boyfriends.

We’d get a second-hand book sale just before school starts where there school would on-sell used books bought back (or donated) from previous years. All the parents and many kids would look for the book in the best condition. If you knew what was up, you’d thumb through them all and look for the ones with highlighting and the margin notes. My parents were like “why do you want the ratty old one?” But didn’t press the issue too hard cos at least they were cheaper than the pristine ones where the spine had never been cracked.

Jarrajee

The story within the book or the personality of the character?

Is vocaroo still a thing? Can you hum or whistle it for us?

Not quite a match but the description makes me think of Kelis - Caught Out There

Does anyone have context for the exchange please? Was this today/recent?

Waffle needs more syrup and the pancake needs crispy bacon and banana with syrup and butter!

What’s a use for an ambiguous QR code panel where you can’t predict which of two codes may be scanned? I’m struggling to come up with anything that makes sense where the mechanism potentially slightly favours one or the other depending on the scanner/ tones used.

Totally agree - I went through the same train of thought and went to reply, but realised I was late to the party. So… ditto!

We played the hell out of Shaun Palmer’s snowboarding. And I’m pretty sure we hammered Tony Hawk too.

Get outta my head!

I think you mean sarcoidosis

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The minivan was my clue

Bill Pullman nervous about blowing through that school crossing and needs to get another set of fingerprints on the steering wheel stat!

Nice perse

The tiniest park in the USA is located on a city street corner in Portland, Oregon. Mill Ends Park

Edit: I fell down a rabbit hole. Corrected myself having posted it originally as “world’s smallest park” which is how I knew it - apparently it carried that distinction until Feb this year when a tiny space on a Japanese street (which was created in 1988) formally applied for, and was awarded the Guinness book of records title of World’s Smallest Park.

Also this one just popped into my head - the Guinness Book of Records was originally conceived as a means of settling arguments by compiling factual “records”. The original argument related to a shooting trip in England in which the Managing Director of Guinness Breweries partook, where a missed shot led to a disagreement about the fastest game bird. The realisation that arguments such as this would be commonplace, and that no resource existed to settle such matters - the niche for capturing these types of facts was identified and the book was born.

Australia