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Sophie's mom here. She is six pounds of softness and entitlement and I love her so much! Thanks for featuring her, Robyn <3

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Mrs. 🦡🍄🐍 approves of I Love Yarn Day, and celebrated by allowing me to drive her to the NH Woolen Arts Festival and buy yarn to add to her own collection. Then she pulled out the entire glove she had knitted because she didn’t like the fit, and allowed me to wind up her balls. Mrs. 🦡🍄🐍 loves me.

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Props to Tim Curry— he *never* phones it in, no matter how absurd the scenario.

Also I love his bat-tie.

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My first cat Smoke (a grey tabby) back in the late '70's loved yarn also. So much so, that one day, I saw something hanging out of his rear end. I grasped it, and proceeded to gently pull. There is a long "squish" sound as I slowly extracted a slimy length of about a foot of my co-habitant's (later to become my legal wife) red yarn.

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Oh. yar n? I saw the headline and thought you loveds yams, which I like, too, covered in butter and brown sugar. r+n is one of the worst letters when it comes to proofreading. It looks so much like m. We need to redesign r so it doesn't bllend in with n.

My rant for the day.

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Kat looks suspicious......

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The only thing I know about Passions is that Spike doesn't like to miss an episode. Something he has in common with Joyce.

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My Baltimore friend does not have a yarn drawer. She has a yarn BASEMENT.

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Teen Witch, the movie that solidified suburban acceptance of The Hip Hop. Amen.

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I have two bedrooms upstairs filled with yarn, and in the past few months I've filled a good portion of the living room as well (I'm balancing out the 30 or so guitars my husband has stashed everywhere). I swear, if I live another 40 years (highly unlikely) I'll use it all for the projects I have planned and for which I purchased it—unfortunately, most of these projects take anywhere from three weeks to three months or more to make and it will STILL take me 40 years. Do I love yarn? A little too much, yes.

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Sounds like your work is cut out for you. Start knitting guitar gig bags!

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I actually told my husband once that we should team up somehow to creatively get rid of all the yarn and guitars—kinda like your suggestion but he would have to come up with a hard "shell" for me to make covers for (he not just collects and repairs guitars, he also builds them so therefore they have no cases). We have yet to come up with a feasible plan.

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If Timmy fell down a well, would Lassie run for help, or would Lassie, with her incredible dog sense, know that Timmy wasn't a real boy?

Enquiring minds and all.

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Lassy! Girl! What is it?

WOOF

Is it Timmy?

WOOF

Is Timmy hurt?

WOOF

Hurry! We must help him!!

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"I do The Rock, myself," is one of my favorite shout-outs during RHPS. But my preference is actually "Paradise Garage." Love the Dori Hartley cameo in her Frank-N-Furter drag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5laG1E0Q4b8

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Ear skritches to Ms. Sophie!

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I have an entire Yarn Room.

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So jealous. I live in a one-bedroom apartment, and I have a pretty serious yarn problem.

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Think like a cat. Look at all that room on your walls.

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That's where the books live...

I think I may have to (fraught, dramatic pause) Get Rid of Some Shit.

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Whoa! Slow down! Don’t do anything rash. What about screwing hooks into the ceiling and suspending baskets?

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That was Edgar Allan Poe's idea for shelving units. Perhaps books were lighter 200 years ago.

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I don't know about the songs, but I definitely want the bat bow tie.

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I was one of those people who looked up "Passions" after Spike grew obsessed with the show during Buffy's fourth season. Weird thing is that I did not recognize Juliet Mills, since as a very small child I watched the family sitcom Nanny and the Professor, in which Mills played Nanny.

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