“But he was my dog”: Lest you draw the ridicule of public opinion, it’s a bad idea to sob in the public eye. A discreet tear is OK, say researchers at Penn State, but women especially have to watch their waterworks or risk being labeled as “emotional.”
The Buzz can usually keep it together, as long as we aren’t watching “Old Yeller” or “Field of Dreams.”
Smells like history: Longtime residents near E. Grand Avenue may have thought Everett’s paper mills had returned: A pile of wood chips is smoldering at an old log yard that is now one of four spots under consideration for the new UW campus.
The same site is just south of the city’s sewage lagoon. Prospective students are advised to stock up on purple and gold nose plugs.
ROTFLOL, dude: Candy wrappers. Cell phones. Crying babies. Now add text messaging to the list of annoyances in theaters. Noise isn’t the problem here, but the distraction from the keypad bathing the quick-thumbed texter in blue light.
Luckily for the rest of us, such boorishness is easily remedied with a strategically spilled tub of diet Coke.
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