PL, you're right.

The term avatar is also used on THIS site referring to the same thing...it's used on most any of the discussion forum sites that allow a person to post, well, an avatar.

I'm glad you're not inured to them...that wouldn't be a good sign.

In my former profession dealing with some of the people I had to, I would tell my wife that I was shocked, but not surprised.

Not inured here, either. Somewhat calloused, but not inured.

A clown moved into an apartment building for circus performers. He was quite happy with the apartment. But he had one complaint: There was no ironing board. The clown called the building superintendent to ask for an ironing board. The superintendent refused to provide one. "But, the acrobats an...

A sailor was caught as he tried to sneak aboard his ship at 3 a.m. The officer ordered the sailor, "Take this broom and sweep every link on this anchor chain by morning, or it's the brig for you!" As the sailor began to sweep, a tern landed on the broom handle. The sailor picked the tern o...

I have heard more than one American explain this day in all seriousness as the day in which you are "boxing up" gifts to return to the store...

Few know it's connection to "Good King Wenceslas" (sp?)!

Thanks for posting your friend's reply, dsteve54.

Yup...this is obviously the first place that anyone would turn to for that kind of information. What I want to know is, will she being going "to hospital" or "to the hospital"? Until she can answer that, whatever will she do? How will she choose the right hospital? Oh, the suspen...

That certainly was the gospel on Christmastide, thank you!

Merry Christmas to all!

Our dew is all mobile at the moment...still in liquid form, though.

This word from Grogie may be a first for me...a word I knew!

Nice little word, Slava!
Never heard that one before.

Welcome, cyoung!
Hope to see some posts going here soon!

A man was married and happy, but he had one complaint. His wife was always nursing sick birds. One day, he came home to find a robin coughing in the living room. In the dining room, a bluebird had its wing in a sling. He went to the kitchen, where he found his wife cuddling a half-frozen bird. "...

Interesting...thanks for the post! Look forward to more...

Unfortunately, every where I've looked, the response is the same...etymology unknown...

Hmmmm...

I wish you could, too, Doc.

Thank you for passing that on...you're not just writing to yourself here, despite the feedback, or lack thereof.

Little known fact--"curglaff" is actually the sound one makes when the cold frigid water reaches a certain point of the anatomy.