When I was in High School, a history class had been working for a number of weeks on research papers. The day they turned them in, the teacher accidentally left them on top of his car when he drove off, scattering them everywhere. He wound up giving everyone a 100 on it (including those that hadn't even turned one in) since he could not be certain that he recovered all of them. This really irritated the ones that had put a whole lot of effort into it.

If they wanted to also give him a lesson in how the world works, they could have deducted a certain amount for taxes.

What can we say, but No means No.

I'll just take the large stone cottage at the edge of the woods.

I wonder how long the Dad had been waiting to pull that.

I would think that using dice that can be seen by everyone would be a requisite for participating in the game to begin with.

Seeing all of the first three sites that are pictured would be quite a trip. They are all quite some distance from each other, especially the first one.

While I question the approach, there have been enough church-shootings over the past few years that I understand why they are doing this.

Both sides are taking each other out of context. This is like watching the literary equivalent of a food fight.

Why not both?

This has got to be one of my favorite Christmas card pictures of all time.

You make it sound like physical contact is a bad thing. It's one of the best parts of being married.

And the girl finally knows what it is like to be treated like a human being for a change.

Well, I mean, he asked a question and was given an honest answer.

FWIW, I have a cousin that was in law enforcement in a small town in Louisiana. He told me about a dead body they found that had two shots to the head that were plainly self inflicted. (They found a suicide note in the man's handwriting, among other things.) They said they had no earthly idea how the man managed to get the second shot off, but it was most definitely a suicide.

Yep, thats pretty much what happened.

Someone is going to have a heck of a time getting inside that toilet to fix it when something breaks, unless that shelf is more easily removable than it looks.

Pistol is pointed the wrong way. It needs to be flipped so that the handle is easier to grab in a hurry.

It looks like Dol Guldur.

I had a cat that my wife says had pretty much this same attitude towards her: "Everything was just fine until SHE came along."

The manager he turned his notice into took the resignation seriously, just not his explanation: retirement/won the lottery. To be fair, a lot of managers would have reacted the same way.

Don't buy something like that for your wife unless she specifically asks you to do so. Then, have at it. (My sister and I both enjoy cooking, and have requested kitchen gadgets from our spouces for Christmas on many occasions.)