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    Image of Glitterbug (likes life shaken, not stirred) Glitterbug (likes life shaken, not stirred)
    11/07/09

    In reply to Comic Confrontations: Judge Judy Vs. Michael Lohan
    I adore Byrd. Seriously, the man's a comic genius. With just one well placed "Mmhmm" he can have the entire jury in stitches.

    Give the man his own show! #judgejudymichaellohan
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    Image of JLady JLady
    11/07/09

    @Glitterbug (likes life shaken, not stirred): Why he and JJ make such a good team! I'd be sad to see him go. #judgejudymichaellohan
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Comic Confrontations: Judge Judy Vs. Michael Lohan
    Strip No. 5 may be the closest thing to perfection ever. Ever. There are no words. #judgejudymichaellohan
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    11/06/09

    In reply to K Is For Kate, Who Kicks Ass, Takes Names
    I was THIs close to Kate. it's the perfect name for petite lesbian with big boobs. Instead I'm a Kristi, the perfect name for a leggy blonde cheerleader. WTF Mom. It's like she didn't even want me to learn to read. (Which Idid. By myself. Before i started school.)
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    11/06/09

    In reply to K Is For Kate, Who Kicks Ass, Takes Names
    My future daughter (because I WILL have one) will be Katherine Mary Margaret, and she will be a Kate. Not a Katie, not a Katherine (though they are both beautiful names), but Kate. I love that name :) #namegame
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    11/06/09

    In reply to K Is For Kate, Who Kicks Ass, Takes Names
    I'm Kate and I like the no nonsense sound of the name. I'm named after my paternal grandma (if you ask my dad) and Katharine Hepburn (if you ask my mom).

    I think it is way, way, way more popular than people think it is. Most girls are named Catherine/Katherine/Katharine/Kathryn and called Kate (as I am).

    Right now:
    45 Katherine
    53 Kaitlyn
    80 Katelyn
    128 Katie
    139 Kate
    149 Catherine
    190 Kathryn
    235 Caitlin
    295 Katelynn
    471 Kaitlin
    900 Katharine

    Kate seems most common among the 1976-1985 cohort. I'm in the range and Kate/Katie was by far the most common name in my high school. Women born earlier tend to be Kathy, women born later tend to be Caitlin (which drives me batty since the pronunciation shouldn't be Kate-lyn).

    Honestly, I wouldn't recommend it is a baby name, even though I love my name. Its special to me because it is my grandma's name and it is what I've always been called, but it was super annoying being one of several until I hit adulthood and it still happens, I've gone by my full name at jobs just to avoid confusion).
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    Image of Ultraprison! Ultraprison!
    11/06/09

    In reply to Project Runway: Guess Who's Going To Fashion Week
    I cannot BELIEVE Gordana's lovely dress got her sent home while Irina's sack of green rags got her to fashion week.

    And yeah, Christopher, no one thinks of you as the "wacky" designer - you're the "super mediocre" one. Well, one of many. #projectrunwayseason6
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    11/06/09

    In reply to K Is For Kate, Who Kicks Ass, Takes Names
    Kate is one of my favorite names - if I had a daughter, that's what I'd name her. #namegame
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    11/06/09

    @scandalouskiki: Oh don't. It is way, way too common. #namegame
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    11/06/09

    @clevernamehere: I don't know - I actually don't know very many Kates. #namegame
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    11/06/09

    @scandalouskiki: It might be somewhat regional- I've noticed its a bigger name in the Northeast than the Moutain West and bigger in the US than the UK/Ireland. It can also be age, as I said upthread it tends to be women in their 30s to 20s more than older or younger women (I think a lot of 20 year old Caitlins might be Cate in a few years). But it is damn common. #namegame
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    11/06/09

    In reply to K Is For Kate, Who Kicks Ass, Takes Names
    Anna, I feel like the Kate you're thinking of in your article is Kate Hepburn, because you described her to a t. #namegame
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    11/06/09

    In reply to K Is For Kate, Who Kicks Ass, Takes Names
    I was so almost a Kate! But when I was born, my Mum read an article that said it was a really popular name, so she changed her mind. Since then she's met approximately three Kates, and regularly laments not calling me that. That said, I like my name better, even if she doesn't. ;p #namegame
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    11/06/09

    In reply to 10 Things You May Have Missed On TV This Week
    In other TV news, has anyone else been plagued by those Idaho Potatoes commercials? I seldom watch daytime TV but I was sick so today was an exception. Anyway, there are these crazy commercials stressing the health benefits of Idaho potatoes ("not just any potatoes!") with this really raspy-voiced lady who pronounces Idaho like "eye-ho" and it drove me nuts (it could also be my cold). She also claims that "exercise and a diet with potatoes" help you to stay trim, which is true in some contexts but it nonetheless made me laugh because I can totally see somebody going to a grocery store, looking at potatoes, and remembering, "oh yeah, potatoes help you lose weight!" #tyrafaketoenails
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Is It Time To Stop Listing "Best" Books?
    This is just ... so obvious to me. Why does it never occur to these supposedly top-of-the-food-chain-esque literary critics that the very foundation of their critical methodology -- as well as the pedagogy which shapes the methodology -- is informed by these very same prejudices?

    I mean, duh. You go to the Oxford University reading list and, year after year, you see the very same 18th and 19th English authors held up as classics.
    Dusty, musty, rusty, fusty. Never a difference. Nothing from Asia. Nothing from Africa. Nothing from Iceland. Or Norway. Nothing from the 20th damn century, even.

    The only conclusion I can come to is that they get it and just don't give a damn. Which, as far as I'm concerned, is even more of a reason to just completely invalidate their "lists."

    Just -- don't designate your critiques the mostest wellest-informedest of the well-informed the next time if you can't see past your own noses, Cri-Tee-Kays, okay?

    /mini-rant #booklists
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    11/06/09

    In reply to Project Runway: Guess Who's Going To Fashion Week
    This season makes me miss Kenley. And that's ridiculous. #projectrunwayseason6
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    11/06/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: Oh man, I would love to lock Kenley and Irina in a room together and tell them to collaborate just to watch the babydiva fur fly...before Irina tried to turn it into an ugly shrug. #projectrunwayseason6
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    11/06/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Make sure to keep all cats far, far away. #projectrunwayseason6
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    Image of MIXED MIXED
    11/06/09

    In reply to 10 Things You May Have Missed On TV This Week
    Did Mariah think casually wiping her cleavage and smelling it would go unnoticed? #tyrafaketoenails
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    Image of Snowbunny Snowbunny
    11/06/09

    @MIXED: I usually do. I'm just never on film or famous, so it doesn't matter. #tyrafaketoenails
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    11/06/09

    In reply to 10 Things You May Have Missed On TV This Week
    I worked at a tanning salon in high school (ooooh the stories) and knew a couple girls that came in who had acrylics on their toenails, but never as long and gaudy as that. I'm not sure the reasoning behind it, as I was always too weirded out to ask. #tyrafaketoenails
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    Image of 1979semifinalist 1979semifinalist
    11/06/09

    @MIXED: I will have nightmares for years over those toenail images. Thank you Tyra. Thank you. #tyrafaketoenails
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    11/06/09

    @1979semifinalist: They look like bear claws! (not the good kind) #tyrafaketoenails
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    Image of 1979semifinalist 1979semifinalist
    11/06/09

    @JessickerFletcher: EXACTLY. That is exactly what I was picturing. #tyrafaketoenails
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    11/06/09

    In reply to K Is For Kate, Who Kicks Ass, Takes Names
    My favorite fake name ever! I have been "given" new names with several new gigs. This was the only one I liked - except for the fact that people kept calling me Katie. When something ISN'T your name, a diminution is a drag.

    Now I get to use my own! #namegame
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    Image of MissKittyFantastico MissKittyFantastico
    11/06/09

    @sybann: My grandfather used to try and call me Katie when I was little, and I used to get so mad and explain that I was "just Kate." I then got angrier when he would then call me "Just Kate." #namegame
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