Seek and Ye Shall Find.
Well, it seems unfair to leave your urgent questions unanswered any longer.
“pseudo compliment” meaning
Usually it means the person dislikes you, but is too much of a pussy to tell you directly, resorting instead to statements like “You’re so clever to have grown that insulating fat—heat costs are rising!”
flashing homeless
That’s sweet, but they’d probably prefer cash.
back side of tit & fit underwire bra
BACKside of tit? Does a tit HAVE a backside? Perhaps if you’d had that underwire bra fitted a bit sooner, you wouldn’t have this problem.
bladder traffic pee a12
As far as I can tell by conducting my own seaches, the A12 is likely a roadway. If you are trapped in traffic on the A12 in California, desperately in need of a restroom, you’ll want to know that it passes through Grenada one mile from its junction with Interstate 5. Further east, a town called Mayten has a convenience store, a church, and an elementary school. If none of these options are close enough, I am told the A12 runs through “an area with towering dark red crags and buttes to the north.” Do you see crags and buttes? Maybe you could squat behind one of those.
(Of course if you are referring to the A12 in Shanghai, none of this is of any help to you).
can alka-seltzer plus cause a false positive on pregnancy test
What do you think the “plus” stands for, exactly? Semen?
Let’s put it this way—you’re pregnant. Which is less likely to be the result of cold medicine than of all that unprotected sex you’ve been having.
Get well soon!
can i trim iud strings by myself
Unless you are the same person who got here by Googling clitorectomy, I would recommend against it.
cps trolling photo sites for messy homes
Hey—you’re kidding, aren’t you? Probably you’re kidding. I’m going to assume this was a joke, and you’re just not very funny. (So, to confirm: KIDDING?)
fat girdel fuckin
The thing I like about this search is the missing “g.” Because “fat girdel fucking” would be too formal.
marachino cherries toe pain
Unless “marachino” is a more sinister cousin of maraschino, I doubt very much that your toe pain is related to cherry consumption.
old fashioned food placeholder
I’m not sure what an “old fashioned food placeholder” is, to be perfectly honest. I assume it was something they had during the Great Depression, to make the table look less empty by illustrating where a succulent roast might go, if you weren’t dining on patties of your own hair.
photoes of misdemeanors in late childhood
Please enjoy this illustration from Oliver Twist:

pictures of messy houses and apartments
NONE OF THOSE AROUND HERE! I AM COMPULSIVELY NEAT! BUT NOT IN AN UNHEALTHY, CHILD-SCOURING WAY! THOUGH I DO BATHE MY CHILD! GENTLY! SHE IS NOT IN NEED OF YOUR PROTECTIVE SERVICES!
should you sleep with lemon on your face
I don’t. But it’s a personal decision.
solipsistic kidney
Are you perhaps one of a pair, concerned that your partner thinks only of himself?
words to search for unreasonable cubicle conditions
How about “unreasonable cubicle conditions?”
wife tricked husband to wear a bra
I confess I am skeptical. How did she “trick” you, precisely? I assume, being married, that you are familiar with the garment—she is unlikely to have convinced you that it was some sort of pectoral exerciser. Did she pretend to cry, and when you went to her, arms outstretched, deftly loop the straps over your shoulders?
This is all sounding rather thin. I suggest you take a long, hard look at yourself. But take off the brassiere first.
typical menu for 18 month old
Breakfast: ½ child’s yogurt drink, concealed in cup of milk
Snack: Fruit residue remaining after expelling said fruit from mouth
Lunch: 1 nickel-sized bite chicken, 2 tsp nanny’s Lean Cuisine
Snack: Milk, ¾ saltine
Dinner: 2 centimeters hot dog, 2 fries (french)
Snack: Milk, salt of mother’s frustrated, desperate tears










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OK, it’s decided. You must — must! — publish a book of these. You know, like in all your spare time? Hee hee.
So I’m getting over bronchitis and awaiting some much-needed booze (medicinal! I swear) and hitting up some blogs while neglecting my kid when I come across these. And for the fourth time in a row, I laugh until I cough, which I then do until there is an Unfortunate Drool Incident.
In sum: thanks. Now I’m off to trick my husband into wearing a bra.
Oh! I know, I know! The cherries (bing cherries will be fine, thanks, or cherry juice) are said to be helpful for gout, which can cause joint pain, particularly in the big toe.
It’s totally fine to trim your own IUD string, but not with a sharp blade. You should use your teeth. (What? Doesn’t everyone have vagina dentata?)
The menu for an 18 month-old sounds just about right except you forgot the stray cat food… not that I know anything about that.
i just laughed so hard that i cried. and almost woke my kids. and then had to read them all to my husband.
I was avoiding taking a drink because I was afraid of the consequences while reading this. Truthfully, I was doing good until I got to the messy houses and apartments. Love these. Seriously. LOVE.
Holy crap you are so funny I want to just hug you all over! Thanks again for making my week!!!! Do people *really* search for these phrases?????
Hahah, this was too funny. I snorted when I got to the messy apartment search. CPS, if you’re searching, there’s nothing to see here. Move on.
HYSTERICAL. I read you all the time and hardly ever comment, but I love your writing.
Late night giggles… I love this series so much, it’s hard for me to even express it.
I love these so much, I just had to try to answer one of the questions. I sent you a picture of one I have, in case you could not figure out my description.
Basically, an old fashioned placeholder for food, IMO, is a tiny ornament, usually made of metal like silver or pewter that holds a card. You write a name on it, and then put it in front of the person’s chair at the dining room table.
They are adorably cute and formal.
OOps! I think my violent snort of laughter woke the roommate.
Thank you for these. So funny!
I am cheered up.
I absolutely love the directions on how to exit the A12 to relieve one’s bladder. That was tight.
But I think I love the fact that your reader felt comfortable enough to drop the g on fuckin’.
This made me laugh out loud. The wife tricking the husband to wear a bra response… hilarious….
Also, as frustrating as it must be for you, the way you described Simone’s daily food consumption was also rather funny…
Doesn’t that make you wonder WHY someone found your site after googling “clitorectomy”?
Also, thanks for the tip on putting the yogurt drink IN the milk.
Patti
IVF Mom
Hi Alexa–LOVE your blog. Love. Do you know you’re quoted on msnbc today? I was like, hey, I know her! (And then I realized, I don’t actually know Alexa, I just read her blog. But then I decided to just ignore that detail, since it likely would have bad implications for my “relationship” with Alexander Skarsgard as well.) Anyway: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32965275/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/?pg=7#Health_CH_8MissedMedicalProblems
And I though I was the only one one who tricked my husband on the bra-wearing front. It’s so good to know I’m not alone. Whew.
OMFG. I shouldn’t read your blog in the morning. I just spit coffee all over my computer. Long time reader, first time commenter – you’re hysterical! Thanks for the laughs.
I just laughed so hard I cried. Now I have to go to training with tears on my face…THANKS A LOT.
Alexa,
I love your humor & writing, and I especially enjoyed the image of a wife deftly slipping a bra on her husband while pretending to cry. That will entertain me all day. Thank you so much!
Also, with 18mo eating habits, oh, I so feel your pain. The worst is when she eats a lot of something, and you think, “I have found the key” and so you go buy a bunch of whatever it was and then the very next day she treats it like you are trying to poison her. I wish you all the best :)
OMG these are awesome, as they always are. LOVE THEM…keep em coming!
These are just hilarious! I really like Jennifer’s idea of publishing a book. I would buy it.
I second the cherries/gout thing. Not that I had my own personal gout or anything but I have heard that it works, however bizarre that sounds.
I just checked my search terms and was very sad to find nothing as entertaining as yours! People come visit me for Etsy success tips and cauliflower cheese recipes. I should write more about tricking my husband into wearing bras, I suppose.
Love your writing. I can’t wait for your book. I’ll be pre-ordering.
Don’t you secretly (or not so secretly) hate those moms who have babies who will actually eat actual food with actual nutrients? My 15 month old will eat one enthusiastic bite of anything we give her and then fake-puke the second and subsequent bites. She will only eat Goldfish crackers. But then she’ll eat so many that she pukes anyway, so I guess there’s no advantage to feeding her anything. I think I’ll throw everything in the blender and mix it with her milk. See if she notices.
So, have you been watching my daughter eat? minus the nanny’s lean cuisine (no nanny and I’m more likely to eat pb&j or mac’n'cheese than lean cuisine) you pretty much wrote the bulk of this week’s menu for my kid. There might have been a few grapes in there and a banana.
Oh! Last night my husband mixed her dinner in a blender and let her dip a piece of bread in it. She loves to dip things. She dips and licks and dips some more. It worked!
I love these posts. They literally make me laugh out loud – and few things do that :)
I don’t even know where to start – back side of tit, bwaaahahaaa. These kill me, and also concern me a little that people actually compose these phrases to search for information. And it makes me wonder what a list of my google phrases would look like…
You really are very funny, I will give you that. Do people REALLY search these things? For real? OMG!!! The obviously have no kids or husbands to take care of!
I feel like such a nerd, I think I found you by searching ‘FET miscarriage’ or something rather melancholy like that. I’ve been meaning to post a comment to say I’m so excited about your book and I think Simone is adorable, and I hope that the dopey drs get their acts together and help you to feel better, but clearly distraction should be my middle name.
and, seriously, sometimes the internet is a very scary place – thank you for making it so much funnier as well!
Someone just found me by searching “clever title for all about me.” I bet you’d have a field day with that one. ;-)
My favorite line of the whole thing is the last: “Snack: Milk, salt of mother’s frustrated, desperate tears.” AHA HA HA HA HA HAHA!
Sarge and I just had a hilarious time together reading this entry! Thanks for the fun.
(PS~It’s our anniversary and everyone here is deathly ill with a cold. This is the most fun we’ve had all day. Seriously…thanks!)