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Hiya, Sars and AB,
Sars — love the site! AB, love your site also, and I think Mad-Mad is the
second-cutest kid ever. (The cutest being, of course, my own kid.)
I have a
hair question. My daughter is …
AB Chao,
My husband and I don’t really drink much (just a good bottle of merlot every
so often), but we do like to entertain friends who enjoy mixed drinks. So,
what are the basic things that we …
Hey hey!
My shoe question comes from England, and it’s mainly about…size. It matters, I kid you not. It’s in three parts, and they all cover the fact that I will be in America soon and …
One night, she wakes up for no good reason. She doesn’t remember dreaming, and she isn’t hungry. But she wakes up, and instead of going back to sleep, she gets up and puts a robe …
Dear Sars,
Long-time listener, first-time caller.I’m trying to figure out where “suck it up and be a friend” ends and “be true to myself” begins.(I always swore that “if I ever wrote The Vine, I’d be …
Hi Sars,
I just wanted to query you and the Etiquette Anthropologist
on how far the rudeness goes.
You see, I don’t drink coffee, because I don’t like it.
There is also a list of fairly innocuous (to the …
Dear Sars,
My problem deals with my two closest friends,
“Ashley” and “Sam.”Ashley has always been a loner,
quiet and distant.As far as I know, Ashley started
cutting her arms last year.I honestly didn’t (and
don’t) think that she would …
When the booze companies tell you to drink responsibly, what they really mean is “don’t drink and drive, and especially don’t drink and drive and then sue us if you wind up with no legs, …
Sars,
The site rocks.Rocks, I say!Ahem…
So, this question has to do with what seems like two favorite topics of
yours — baseball, and grammar (there might also be some cat stuff thrown in
if I decide to be …
Dear Sars,
I have been reading TN for a while now, and although I’m pretty new to The Vine, what I have read so far seems like great advice so I thought I’d ask you what …