We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.
So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.
This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.
Our item on the Texas Department of Transportation suing a romance author for using the title Don’t Mess With Texas drew a bunch of comments and a classic put-down.
Early Cuyler wrote:
Even wet with want, his fit was tight, hitting nerve endings she didn’t know she had.
Why do women read these crap-tastic books? With baited breath I doth say, who gives a shit.
To which Cathryn Cade responded:
Dear Early,
Did your wife give you that nickname? Well, darlin’, that’s why she reads romance.
This article appears in Aug 18-24, 2011.