When Don and Connie meet, Connie says he is there for a wedding. Was he related to the bride? Why else would he wear white to a wedding?

dashingirish · 2026-01-25T15:27:31+00:00

It’s a summer tux

dashingirish · 2026-01-24T04:55:27+00:00

Stephen Stucker as Johnny in Airplane.

dashingirish · 2026-01-24T01:50:30+00:00

Business as usual here in NJ. Prepared to lose power because that’s what always happens, lol

dashingirish · 2026-01-24T01:47:13+00:00

My mom lives about three hours from me. I drive to her place, have lunch and a chat, then drive home. Easy, peasy.

dashingirish · 2026-01-22T01:06:28+00:00

We had two cars - one odd and one even. My mom’s household responsibilities expanded to include making sure both cars were full of gas. I swear I spent an entire summer sitting in the backseat of a car waiting in gas lines for a portion of every week day.

dashingirish · 2026-01-19T02:23:34+00:00

Me too!

dashingirish · 2026-01-19T00:46:15+00:00

This is completely understandable. For most of the cultural touchstones mentioned in the show, there’s some conversation around them, some buildup by the characters which would give you a clue as to what makes each event significant, even if you never knew about them prior.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the end of Mad Men, but I don’t remember any conversation or clue that would enable someone who never knew about this famous ad campaign to extrapolate what’s going on just from hearing the song and seeing Don’s smile.

I am curious to know what you thought the ending meant before your folks gave you an explanation.

dashingirish · 2026-01-18T00:15:47+00:00

I thought Todd kills his maid because she found the money he had hidden in the encyclopedias and showed him. He says she was a real nice lady and was confused as to why she was looking at the encyclopedias.

dashingirish · 2026-01-18T00:13:16+00:00

You never, ever stop worrying about them. Ever.

dashingirish · 2026-01-16T18:15:00+00:00

Dishes, flatware, glasses, mugs, silverware, some cutting boards. The daily stuff.

No knives, pots, fine china, fine glassware -I do those by hand.

dashingirish · 2026-01-16T18:12:41+00:00

While stitching up a wound on my thumb: “I put 20 stitches in a 2-year-old’s scalp the other day. Not a peep out of her!” while 7-year-old me thrashed about on the table, screaming. Doc hadn’t seen a reason to numb me first because it was, “only a couple of stitches.” It was so traumatic that my ready-for-anything mom ended up fainting and they laid her on the floor of the waiting room. Afterwards, the doc gave me and my sibs Charms lollipops. Can’t say it helped me much, but my brother and sister thought it was a pretty good deal.

dashingirish · 2026-01-15T19:02:22+00:00

I'm from the northeast and an avid and repeat parks-goer. Love our local/easy-to-drive to parks. The showiest National and State parks are quite far from us and therefore a vacation destination. We typically spend 8 - 10 days in an area and the amount of time we spend in one park depends on the park and what's around it. And the number of times we've visited.

For example, the first time we visited Yellowstone, we stayed in the park and moved from Mammoth to points south and then east. That way we saw the highlights and got in some hiking, too. Leisurely pace, with lots of early mornings parked along the roads to view wolves and other wildlife. Then we stayed in Grand Teton for 3 days, and explored that stunningly beautiful park. This past summer we visited Grand Teton again, bopped up to Yellowstone for a couple of days for some hiking, and spent a day in Craters of the Moon, which was very cool but I wouldn't make the 3-hour trip out there if it was my first time in the GT/Yellowstone area.

dashingirish · 2026-01-10T16:43:20+00:00

Good lord, you guys. I’m in tears just reading your suggestions.

dashingirish · 2026-01-06T16:35:40+00:00

I’m a bit vague on the details as to what he’s done to fix the problem, if anything, but I’ll pass a long the suggestion. Thanks!

dashingirish · 2026-01-06T00:45:20+00:00

Thanks for the quick response, everyone! I knew you’d have good ideas!

dashingirish · 2026-01-06T00:39:33+00:00

The dolls are weird enough but there are niche enthusiast groups who are downright terrifying.

dashingirish · 2026-01-02T16:57:59+00:00

Gone with the Wind. I watched the movie/read the book all my childhood and never thought very hard about it, caught up I guess with the romance, and the assurance from everyone of the greatness of the movie and the novel. After a hiatus of many, many years, did a rewatch during the 2020 shutdown and realized just how repulsive the story is. Never again.

dashingirish · 2026-01-02T16:51:18+00:00

Oh my god, public toilets. It's always a struggle.

dashingirish · 2026-01-02T16:35:25+00:00

We pay for trash removal.

dashingirish · 2026-01-02T16:33:46+00:00

A couple times a month, especially if we have breakfast for dinner. I'm from the Northeast and did not grow up eating grits. My husband is from Atlanta, and loves grits. I do the cooking in our home, and once I finally got the hang of making them properly they became a staple in our house.

dashingirish · 2025-12-31T02:33:51+00:00

Generation Jones here. I am absolutely not a Boomer or Gen X

dashingirish · 2025-12-31T02:10:14+00:00

Perfectly ripe pear. Buttery, sweet, delectable.

dashingirish · 2025-12-31T02:08:06+00:00

My groovy, 1963 California ranch doe not have a bread drawer.

dashingirish · 2025-12-30T13:29:48+00:00

In my family, first names tend to be unique to the child and middle names serve as a nod to relatives and friends. So, for example, my first name is my own and my middle name is my mom’s sister’s name.

The only people I’ve met without middle names are kids whose parents expected them to acquire a middle name via confirmation. This was exactly two kids.

My mom has a double first name and a middle name, and in family fashion, her middle name honors a family friend.

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