“Barry,” my cousin Mike said, “I think it’s time.” It was clear that my brother didn’t feel the same way, but he only shrugged, which Mike took as agreement. “Dave,” he said, giving the words as much gravity as he could muster, “Go get the dictionary.” I was nine years old, and a tag-along. I’d walked in on my brother telling a story about how—during school that morning—a girl he knew got her period in the middle of French class. And I laughed like the dickens. And then they called me on it. After I’d lugged the dictionary down from the spare room, Mike told me to look up the word period and read out the definition. “The end of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action?” “Keep going,” he said. “The full pause with which a sentence closes?” “Not that.” “An interval of geologic—“ “Gimme that!” He yanked the book towards him, read down the page, and pointed me towards the definition he’d found. Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from pu...
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It's Slavic.
Nice.
Nice one, eh?
With the boy formula it would have been "Fluffy van Grunsven", which sounds more like a former pornstar, turned CNN anchor.
Also, let me make a very grown-up and mature shout-out to all the people (person) who lurk on this site but never comment...Happy Birthday.
Girl formula: Anne Caswell.
Sweet lord, I'd be a boring porn star.
I clearly should find another job.
What the hell?
Anne Caswell and Ginger McDonald: soft core. We're talking Red Shoe Diaries.
Josh "Cat" Oakmount is working the camera; either "genre"--he's taking the work where he can get it.
I don't know what the hell to do with Lee 9th or Lauren Taimani Watt Street 3. Producers?