What Vanda don't like and you got to watch:

"I got my own way of growing vanda --- that's what
you call Hawaiian orchid. Don't nobody know about it.
I've applied for a patent. You're a lawyer. You want
to now what it is?'
"Sure."
Mr Eberhart moved closer. "I use chestnut chips and
a steady tempeture. Most people think they got to
have seventy to eighty degrees. But what vanda don't
like and you got to watch is your sudden tempeture
change. And up here you can give them plenty of
sunlight."
"We got plenty of both, chestnut and steady
tempeture.'
"That's where the money is."
"Where's that?" Arms folded, they gazed out over
St Mark's putting green."
"In orchids."
"Is that right?"
"You want to know who buys orchis now?"
"Yes."
"The colored. I sold five hundred corsages to one
colored-debutante ball."
- from The Second Coming by Walker Percy

Fisrt Novels are sometimes fiction:

Amitsacramento: I have written my first novel...
YrBIu: Congrats, Amits.
YrBIu: What's it titled?
Cloktix: amits, wow..what's the topic?
Prospect26: Amits...good on you!
Amitsacramento: The Other Side of the Fence
Cloktix: fiction/nonfiction?

Do you think about this a lot?:

Condorblue: if I were a woman, I wouldn't be caught dead in dowdy
clothes, or camel toes

First remodel, then exorcize:

MsJillybeen9: how's the house, verb?
VERBQUEEN: hi Vern and Rocky and Jane, too
VERBQUEEN: it's done, Jilly!
MsJillybeen9: good!
VERBQUEEN: now I have to learn not to be afraid of it

Jericho inspires us in ways he doesn't know:

Nowhereinva: spawn's friend jericho leaves for boot camp
in a few weeks
VERBQUEEN: "jericho"?
ParaMyrrh: Nowhere God Bless Him
Nowhereinva: he's hoping to make the marine's drum corps
VERBQUEEN: man, the things they name kids these days...
Nowhereinva: yes, that's his name
ParaMyrrh: may the walls come tumbling down
MsJillybeen9: we already did the name thing earlier
Gracie418: verbie ... we were talking about that very thing earlier tonight
MsJillybeen9: crab apple etc.
Nowhereinva: he's only about 5 ft tall. i couldn't believe they took him
VERBQUEEN: aw, too bad I missed it
Gracie418: we had fun with it
ParaMyrrh: Nowhereinva hard to hit
VERBQUEEN: the whole phenomenon of names fascinates me
ParaMyrrh: has cover at all times
JaneH56: me either, use to have a height requirement.
Nowhereinva: he told me some off the wall story about if he dies,
that just told me he has no concept that death is permanent
Nowhereinva: he sounded like the thought it was a video game
Nowhereinva: i think jericho is a cool name
VERBQUEEN: off the wall? is that a jericho pun?

3 Law & Orders about it:

UrbanStarGazer: Jane -- I once had a dentist ask if I would rather go
to the gynecologist or the dentist . . .
Gracie418: i'd rather have bamboo shoots shoved under my fingernails
than go to a dentist
Catpower777: Jane, you're scaring me. I have a dentist appt. tomorrow!
UrbanStarGazer: I told him the gyno, he said I was the first woman to
ever answer that way
UrbanStarGazer: I hate dentists
JaneH56: oh urbie, that's kind of creepy.
VERBQUEEN: I'd go to the gyno every day for a month rather than go to the dentist
BinxB91: Urban's date from hell --- a short dentist
ParaMyrrh: verb what if your hootie had teeth?
UrbanStarGazer: Verb -- Amen
VERBQUEEN: maybe it does, kal
Vanda52: jane , theres this thing thats geting common
called sedation dentistry , look into , you arent put all the
way out , just enough so you dont care what the dentist does
ParaMyrrh: I love getting my hair cut too
Catpower777: Allan, I've heard about what those dentists do to you while
you're out of it
MsJillybeen9: Cat, they had 3 law and orders about it

Verb shows mercy on KaL:

ParaMyrrh: Jane I an't getting married 'til Im 40
VERBQUEEN: David is hoping to grow a few more inches...
ParaMyrrh: lol
VERBQUEEN: ya know, for the pictures
JaneH56: why not kal.
Gracie418: glad you qualified that, verbie

Thanks for the explanation, we'll be looking for you:

Niontron3: my new screen name is MiracleProducer
Niontron3: he who produces miracles

Adventures in the Kama Sutra:

YrBIu: I keep a copy of the Kama Sutra on my coffee table,
spread open to a basic position.
YrBIu: When my date comes back from the bathroom, I have
already turned the page to a more complex position.
YrBIu: Then when they turn to look at me, with an arched left
eyebrow, I lift both of mine, waxing innocent.
Gracie418: lol, yr
Gracie418: doesn't anyone ever arch the right eyebrow?
Gracie418: i know i can't
MadiHolmes: and then they start laughign because Yr accidently
opened the book to the "Wading Turtle" position
YrBIu: Madi. Or, they offer to try out a position and I awkwardly
back out of the situation, "Y'know, I gave up random sex for Lent."
Jam7604801: i never read a kama sutra i always hoped i would
fine a lady who wanted to teach it to me
MadiHolmes: I once gave a copy away at a bachelorette party
MadiHolmes: it was a bit of a mistake
MadiHolmes: because all before the party, all I'd heard was "Yeah!
We're going to an adult store and getting her ALL sorts of stuff!"
MadiHolmes: so I was thinking "Well, the Kama Sutra would be
in the spirit of the party, but also not quite so seedy"
MadiHolmes: so I show up with my book
MadiHolmes: and she starts opening gifts, and it's things like
"the world's worst vase"
MadiHolmes: or a stature
MadiHolmes: statue
Gracie418: geez, what a dud of a bachelorette party, madi
MadiHolmes: I know
YrBIu: I think I saw that episode of Raymond, Madi.
MadiHolmes: so they get to my gift and open it up
MadiHolmes: and everyone was totally taken aback
MadiHolmes: because I"m totally not that kind of person
YrBIu: The statue shaped like...labia.
MadiHolmes: to give that kind of thing
Gracie418: yr ...the one marie made?
YrBIu: Yes.
Gracie418: lol ... good episode
YrBIu: Madi was suddenly the focus of the room.
YrBIu: Thinking, "What the hell?"
Gracie418: madi ... but your book HAD to be the hit of the party
YrBIu: Gracie. Such a hit that for the anniversary party next year, Madi
got them "Mozart and Bach for Babies."
Jam7604801: madi is she still married?
Gracie418: if not, well, at least the groom was probably thankful
MadiHolmes: oh defintely
MadiHolmes: it compeltely went from girl to girl
MadiHolmes: I have no idea
MadiHolmes: I don't think so though
Gracie418: somebody else brought birth control, no doubt
MadiHolmes: it was one of those couples that was pretty dysfunctional to begin with
Jam7604801: i'm sure your gift came in handy madi they didn't make
you take it back did they
MadiHolmes: no