Let's learn all about HPV together! We will not learn why people make stuffed toys of sexually-transmitted diseases (probably to educate the young) but life is a rich tapestry.
"STOP MAKING ME CARE SO MUCH ABOUT HETEROSEXUALITY, JACK"
"MAKE TWO MOUTHS WITH YOUR ONE MOUTH"
"BERT AND CEC I FEEL LIKE YOUR COMMUNIST IDEALS ARE BEING SLOWLY WORN AWAY BY THE GLAMOROUS WARDROBE AND BENEVOLENT CAPITALISM OF PHRYNE FISHER, PLEASE DON'T FEEL SO BAD ABOUT IT THOUGH, COMPROMISE IS SORT OF LIKE GETTING USED TO A HOT BATH AND AFTER A WHILE IT FEELS COMFORTABLE, LIKE YOU COULD DO THIS UNTIL YOU DIED"
It’s a perennial question—whenever I meet someone new, be it at a bar or at church coffee hour, the question arises with a renewed intensity. The questioner grasps my hand, peers into my eyes, and sweetly asks: “But what do we call you?” It is one of those unique queries reserved for female clergy—right up there with “Where do you find decent-fitting clergy shirts?” and “Do you have to have a horrible haircut?” The handful of women…
WIFE OF BATH
: listen pal
first of A, I've been getting married since I was twelve
so everyone who hasn't been getting married since I was twelve kindly pipe down and listen
listen in a me of direction
second of ly, I'm a little tipsy so everyone in this story is going to be called Allison because I forget their real names
Dear Businesslady,
I started a job about a year ago at a small, woman-centered non-profit organization. My boss, the executive director ("ED"), is a few years older than me. We're alike in many ways and get along fine, but there seems to be a class/income divide coloring our interactions, and I need help in navigating it. I grew up in a solidly middle-class home where I didn't lack for much but money wasn't something ever
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Our quest to transform The Toast into a Hamilton fanpage continued apace this week with Nicole's ode to Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kendra James' reflection on the show's themes and timeliness. How lucky we are to be alive right now!
A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Shipping
I talked to Arissa Oh, American historian and Friend of The Toast, about the history of Korean adoption and what it can teach us about the rise and…
This one isn't a strictly Fry-and-Laurie entry; it's from the 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue, but it has Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry trying to out-U one another, and that is a rare gift and a shining jewel.
"My darling, you're looking pale."
"I
am
pale."
"Oh, my darling, don't say that, don't even think it."
Welcome back to Crush Cakes! When you sit around breathlessly swooning over your crushes nonstop like me, well…we are worldly people here, you know what happens next. I make cakes expressing my feelings for them, and then sit back and wait for my destiny to be fulfilled. It all makes perfect sense. This time around, my crush cake is dedicated to Parker Posey and three of my very favourite roles of hers: Darla in Dazed…
Pretty much the best part about England is that they have divided their vocabulary up into U- and non-U aspects of speech, with the net result being that pretty much whatever word you choose to employ in a given situation, you sound like a grasping middle-class grasper and people talk about your graspiness in horrified tones the moment you leave the room. There's a wrong way to refer to the bathroom over there! Imagine…
Alfredo Prieto’s case has been reassigned to U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson, a former prosecutor appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush.
In a profile of Hudson in connection with his overseeing the sentencing of Michael Vick in 2007, ESPN.com’s legal analyst focused on Hudson’s tough-on-crime approach to the law. “In a campaign for commonwealth attorney,” the story noted, “Hudson used a large button that said,…
