the people that phishers are aiming for

Dear Miss Manners:

Very often, when making a purchase with our credit card, we are asked by the sales associate to show a picture ID. This is something we find highly offensive, as it is basically a request to prove that we are not attempting to use a stolen card.

When we complain to the clerk (or the manager, who usually gets involved) that the request is offensive, we are invariably told that it is for our own protection. Most of the time, they just don't seem to understand how it is offensive. Is there anything that can be said to let them know that I really don't like being treated like a criminal when I'm trying to enhance their profit margin? I feel like I'm being rude to the clerks when I complain. I know it's not usually their fault (company policy), but that doesn't lessen the affront.

LOL FOREVER.

chair filler

send sanity, stat

Dear Yuletide story,

Really? No... REALLY? O... okay.

Love,
Cim

performing bears?

Grateful Dead collaborate with Converse for limited edition hi-top

regency wax

Whenever I play with a doll maker, after I make me, I automatically make Wax (thus you have for example ( Simpsons Cim & Wax )

. So I used photoshop-fu to make a Regency Wax with the Regency Dress Up Doll. That is to say, I coloured her dress and made her a new face by pasting together pieces of the Regency Hero and Regency Heroine faces and redrew the jaw and hair.



And that took more work than I expected!

I'll just say this, never get between these people when drink has been taken

Dear Brother Windows,

When I said that I prefer the Oxford comma and that there is debate about whether it should be used or not, the "debate" thing was an indication that in fact, neither way is definitively correct or incorrect. Both usages coexist. They compete. So an appropriate response to "I would use it" is not "You'd be wrong"; the whole point is that neither way is actually wrong. Also, I'm pretty sure that no non-native speaker of English is going to correctly correct my punctuation, ever. It's certainly never happened before. I was affectionately known as Grammar Cop within the family when I was a wee one with reason.

Lovingly but admittedly somewhat snootily,
Cim

ETA: On the subject of grammar, The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect Passive.