Nom nom baby hedgehog. It's not even Friday yet.

Whose granny is gonna talk to me about cock rings now???
Ah, SUE!!

A friend of mine is literally OBSESSED with hedgehogs right now - she's trying to convince her boyfriend that they would make a better pet than a "boring old" kitten. I sent her the link ASAP. This is just too funny.

(sidenote to kitty lovers, like myself - she is slightly allergic to them, hence the general disinterest, she actually does have a heart.)

"Baby hedgehogs arrive early in Britain due to warm weather. Awww."

No- not aww, it is a really bad sign. Hedgehogs are not hibernating long enough and many are waking up during winter and dying. Things like this are a sign that things are getting fucked up in the countryside.

Baby hedgehogs ALMOST negate week-old-tampon-funk-jammed-against-cervix, but not quite. Now, my vagina, my puppy, and I will be curling up in a ball and awaiting that nuclear holocaust we were promised. Good night, and good luck.

@ilikenoise: La la la I can't hear you and your terrible awful no good news la la la laaaa.

@ilikenoise: Shit, sorry Maria, didn't mean to be so sanctimonious. I grew up with a slight hedgehog obession. I know, weird.

Pregnant women got judged while applying for jobs -- no way!!!

Awww, Sue!!

And also-- Woohoo! I love my IUD!

SueJo! You and your terrifying scoopy-finger gesture will be greatly missed.

You mean someone on the editorial board of Christianity Today didn't see that in mock ups and go: "Hmmmmmmmmmm.... something doesn't seem quite right..."

Hebden Bridge is a fantastic place, very very picturesque.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i love sue johansen!

@Sukie in the Graveyard: Hedgehogs are cute little things, though definitely not as cuddly as kitties.

Sue, you will be missed.

Remember that time SueJo went on Letterman and wore a strapon chin dildo? He was totally speechless. I am really going to miss her.

Cool that the girl made the baseball team. I was on my high school's boys' baseball team way back in 1981, but it wasn't because I was good, and I didn't beat anyone out. My school was small. They had a no-cut sports policy, and sweetened the pot by letting you out of gym class if you were on a sports team -- and scheduled gym for first period. Three of us girls tried out for baseball (there wasn't a softball team, only soccer as the other spring sport). The coach wasn't thrilled, so, in lieu of cutting, he made the preseason practices as arduous as possible. The other two girls dropped out, along with a lot of boys. We ended up with 10 players, 9 boys and me. I never got to play, because the opposing teams all threatened to challenge the games with the league if I was put in. I did get a letter, though. And learned how to chew tobacco (it was gross, but a team tradition).

omg! I love Sue! Where will I get the same advice about anal sex every week? Also who will tell me that a woman can ejaculate up to 2 milkbags worth of fluid?

@cate3710: yeah... we discussed this... extensively... annoying the crap out of our boyfriends... good times.

@ilikenoise: The bees are dying too. I heard it on Radio 4!

I've always wanted a pet hedgehog, and while my husband and I were on our honeymoon, my father-in-law went to our house to check on it. And there was a baby hedgehog in our window well! He was okay, thankfully (FIL did a great rescue job), but I was super pissed I wasn't there to see it. If I didn't think my dogs would nom nom on it, I'd buy a bebeh hedgehog in a heartbeat.

I will totes miss SueSueJoJo. Here's hoping her reruns will continue to air for years.

That being said, I think 90% of the questions people ask her can be answered by 4 responses: 1)No, you can't get pregnant from giving a blowjay. 2)He'll go longer if he uses a cockring. 3)Buy a small vibrator. 4)No, you didn't pee, that's a g-spot orgasm.

And with the end of Talk Sex, so goes the only thing my sister and I have in common- our love for Aunt Sue

I met an albino hedgehog. he looked just like billy idol.

Nom Nom at the pic, however need to keep in mind that climate change causing animal habits to change is NOT GOOD...damnit where is Al Gore?!?!?

Hedgehogs!!!!

@ilikenoise: Yikes!

@prickles: Awww.. don't worry prickles I am sure you and your hoglet babies will be fine.

@rah29: I heart Radio 4. Have fun in Westminster btw.

The way my mother says 'hedgehogs' is one of her cutest attributes. She says:

'edge...............'ogs.

with about a minute between syllables.

My friend is getting a baby hedgehog in just a few days!! He's naming it "Noogie" and it will stay in my room!!! We're going to make LOLhedgies with it.

@michaeltequila: Um, omg you forgot the weekly "Lots of lube... then one finger, two fingers, three fingers, and..."

@trikitixa:

Does your mom have a British accent...cause in my mind she does.

@ilikenoise: Oh man. All I could think was, damn right there's been warm weather! I turned in some massive essays and celebrated with Kopperberg in the beer garden. But now the hedgehogs are dying, and I'm just feeling so conflicted.

@BitchIsTheNewBlack:
No, she just has her own weird language and pronunciations (sweater=fweater is my favorite); it is noticeable enough to have made my brother's school require him to go through speech therapy. Which he is still mad about 20 years later.

Luv me some hedgie babies!! And as for that reindeer debacle, I guess it was "too much trouble" to call other zoos to check on placements for the ones euthanized. Glad some media coverage prompted them to pull out the phone book and look under Z!

Don't even know her but your mom kicks ass.

My aunt pronounces "bed sheets" like "bed shits" to this very day I try to get her to say it in conversation as many times as I can...it makes me day.

I think I may have posted this, but a family friend just got diagnosed with lung cancer at age 76. He quit smoking 40 years ago. 40 YEARS! And still got cancer.

Depressing (says she who can't seem to quit).

@R-Star: What would summer be without beer gardens though? Like an orchestra without the string section or Chelsea without Jose Mourinho. Oh Jose you are so pretty.

Wow, it's like a chapter of my youth has now ended with Sue going off the air.

Sue is the reason I also started watching Degrassi.

@nevin: ooh, was it Hebden Bridge they were taking about? That bypassed me even though my brother lives next town over...it is a lovely place that has banned plastic bags!

@ilikenoise: I miss Jose and his overcoat. Now I have no reason at all to pay attention to football.

Beer gardens bother me with their wasp ridden ways...

Lesbians: Saving the world, one mill town at a time.

I owe my sex education to Sue. Public school sex ed is a bust, but at least I had cable to learn something.

Loved the Polygamist-wife makeover interview.

Their choices do seem to me to reflect some fashion choice -- after all, they could have just bought the stuff on the sale racks at Wal Mart if they really wantd to reject fashion.

The question in my mind is, why this choice? Did the husband-autocrat first feel sexual urges in the 1980's when puff sleeves were everywhere? There is a fashion-student thesis in this...

NOOOOOO!!!!! I love SueJo! It can't be!

I raise a glass of box wine to you SueJo, and a hearty "screw me into the mattress, big guy!"* from me, and the inner aspect of my thigh.

*my favorite thing SueJo has ever said, when giving advice on talking dirty.

@Sukie in the Graveyard: This post made me look up baby hedgehog breeding sites all afternoon. I called my parents and told them to get one because evil CA doesn't allow them.

Ain't nothing wrong with Allende!

except, um, there is. I just instinctively felt I needed to defend my fellow Latina.

@ilikenoise: Eeek, you might take a sudden and strong dislike to me and my Arsenal-supporting ways. Although, in keeping with the theme of attractive footballers, there's a lot less hotness on the pitch at Emirates without my Thierry Henry. What is va-va-voom indeed...

Nooooooo, not Talk Sex with Sue Johansen!!!!! Even though it was awkward and she sometimes misinterpreted peoples' questions, it was the greatest.

Comment on Hedgehogs Hatch Early For Spring • Sue Johanson Ends Sex Talk thats so sad, i totally watched sex with sue while stoned

The Hebden Bridge story gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. Especially the old lady in the hairdressers.

@ilikenoise: Yes, compulsive Radio 4 listening is part of my quest to turn into an old man. I have the In Our Time podcast, hehehe.

Cheers! I doubt it will be 'fun' but one can hope... At the very least it'll give me an excuse to come home via Oxford Street, since, y'know, it's sort of on the way to King's Cross and anyway I should hang around until the 6.45 train home so I miss rush hour. And if I happen to hang around in Topshop, so be it.

IUDs for the win!
I don't understand why they are so underutilized here in the states.
Are doctors not talking about them because of (grabbing at straws here) the higher rate or multiple partners in 20 and 30 yo ladies? I mean, we marry later in age here (I'm comparing to a 3rd world country) and therefore are less likely to be in a monogamous relationship....
But come on. An IUD doesn't mean you're going to get PID. Or anything else. You should still use a condom if you're not 100% sure of the guy.
But effortless, high quality sex whenever you like? I'm all for it. You can pry my IUD out of my cold dead body.
(bad visual there).

@Muffyn: I meant high quality (efficacy) birth control. Not high quality sex all the time. They're not THAT magical.

@ilikenoise: Whatever, dude, I'm slightly obsessed with hippos.

@Muffyn: In my area it's probably because 1) if they aren't covered by insurance, they're expensive (no planned parenthood in the area and the health dept doesn't do those on sliding scale) and 2) the doctors can't imagine you knowing that you don't want kids that far into the future. Only sort of joking on that last one.

Best Talk Sex Question
Q: Is it safe for my husband to come in my ear?
A: Yes