Are there any awards that are given to columnists? Especially that are particularly competitive and/or prestigious?

If you were a manly skirt in an ancient-ish type culture, you would be called ( Read more... )

Anyone here really good at Astronomy ( Read more... )

NaNo is approaching and I have a land, some cultures and reasonably well-fleshed out characters - but I don't have a plot ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm thinking of making a joke about a puppet-related character that references Punch and Judy without referring outright to the name (basically involving mentions of crocodiles, sausages, policemen and so forth) ... I'm aware that most of the people who will see the joke will be American, and that Punch and Judy shows don't really occur on ( Read more... )

This is what comes of being a Jew, not a Catholic:

Catholic priests wear collars, yeah? Are they part of special shirts, or could are they a separate piece that could be attached to any shirt/worn over an regular collar/etc? When would a priest wear a collar, and when would he forgo it?

Thanks for the help!

How long d'you suppose med school would take? o_O

Unfortunately I'm no longer in possession of a copy of Romeo and Juliet, but I seem to remember that Mercutio (I think) uses an old-fashioned term that equates to our "gatecrash" when contemplating going to a masquerade. Does anyone know which term I'm talking about, or have a copy of R&J and wouldn't mind looking it up for me?

Does anyone know, off the top of their head, who you would go to see if you had lukemia?

A while ago skylark97 posted an entry about fairy tale stereotypes. I'm doing something similar, except I want to find out more about what common fantasy stereotypes and cliches that people may have come across while reading so I can attempt to be funny parody and poke fun at them ( Read more... )