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PANTS KNOWS

Only 11% of the Secret Service are women.

Less time separates us from Tyrannosaurus Rex than separated Tyrannosaurus Rex from Stegosaurus.

Sir Charles Isham introduced garden gnomes to England in 1847. He brought 21 of them back from a trip to Germany and put them as ornaments in the gardens at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire. Only one of that original batch survives. His nickname is Lampy.

Seth MacFarlane's favorite movie is The Sound of Music.

Women don't want to know their real clothing size, so manufacturers re-label bigger sizes with smaller numbers. In 1958, a size 8 corresponded with a bust of 31 inches, a waist of 23.5 inches, and hips of 32.5 inches. In ASTM's 2008 standards, a size 8 had increased by five to six inches in each of those three measurements, becoming the rough equivalent of a size 14 or 16 in 1958.

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after a fashion

May 25, 2012

With 'Fashion Star' a wrap, even Your Style Avatar is poking around for some Summer Fun ...

  • May 18, 2012

    Witty Style Avatar seeks travel daddy. Or mami. Enquire within.

  • May 11, 2012

    Exhausting! That's what spring has been for Your Style Avatar as he reflects on a life holding court.

  • May 4, 2012

    From latex to foil, there's style in them tharr condom wrappers

day trips

May 25, 2012

Pedernales River Nature Park is open to the public as a free day-use park, for now

  • May 18, 2012

    See sea turtles at the seashore

  • May 11, 2012

    Mission San Francisco de los Tejas was the beginning of European settlement in East Texas

  • May 4, 2012

    La King's Confectionery is the only place in the world you can get Purity Ice Cream

gay place

May 25, 2012

Strap on your ... roller skates, fool; it's time for Roller Disco 2.

  • May 18, 2012

    Check our Ho-rizon: Your hot, gay summer is about to kick off, big time

  • May 11, 2012

    Working out with Erica Nix may not make you gay, but it'll sure make you gayer

  • May 4, 2012

    Surely it's some kind of unicorn promised land, this Krause Springs. The main pool seems unchanged since we began...

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letters at 3am

A View From the St. James Hotel

The St. James: It's an infirmary, it's a morgue, and it's a hotel where we each share a room with the dead

Fri., May 18, 2012

the common law

the luv doc

Abortion is a Sticky Wicket

Nature doesn’t provide any clear cues for difficult moral questions.

Tue., May 22, 2012

Chrontourage