Hey, I’m just wondering. What makes you classify a handmade soap as "good"? I can’t really tell the difference.

i think that good soaps don’t strip your skin of its natural moisturizers, and plus it makes you smell purdy. here’s a question: when you say a statement in parentheses, but you want to end it with an emoticon, do you put two end parens or just one? (blah blah blah like this ;) ) <–?

I’ve quandered the same issue many an evening over a glass of brandy. And I’ve come to the conclusion…(drum roll please ;)
1. if the emoticons are converted to little images, you always use another end parens.
2. if the emoticons are not converted (here, for example), you do not need another end parens (like I used above).

I don’t think the people at Strunk have tackled this yet. Maybe we should write to William Safire. Maybe we should just feel smart when we see others use them incorrectly. Or maybe we just spent exactly 10x too much time thinking/discussing the issue than it was ever worth… ;)

you should ask him for his manager then – that oughta scare the dickens out of him, hehe…..my bf was tired of all the spam and junk mail and phone calls so he sent almost a dozen letters to ask every one of them to take him off their mailing lists etc. We’ll see if it works.

I get a tiny one word mention. Sheez. No love :)

oops!