The contents of the article must be consumed in order to discuss them intelligently, to create an informed opinion, and to pose questions that have positive worth within the conversation that ensues from its having been read and ruminated upon?

Preposterous notion.

The lions are nude, if that helps…

Not NASA, Nasa.

I hope you have named these forks after Muppets.

From left to right, they are clear to me as: Robin the Frog, Kermit, Bunsen Honeydew, and Beaker.

A reminder to all that the M stands for Master.

(Yes, I know it’s used in the “mastery” sense, but just roll with the analogy!)

Sounds like that disappointment has you pretty steamed.

From the app’s Home page:

• Tap the 3-bars hamburger icon at top left corner.
• Tap on Settings (currently that’s immediately below “Inbox”)
• Tap on [your account name] settings (currently it’s immediately below “Look and feel”)
• Scroll down the page to the checkboxes, and uncheck “Show Read Posts”
• Remember to scroll down to the page bottom to Save Settings (!)

I also have heard Squirrel, the first time I ever heard of SQL. It was in a webinar info session for just a very superficial top-level type of understanding, really intended for nothing more than to acquaint first-tier support staff with technical terms and concepts. “SQL stands for Structured Query Language. For short, we can call it ‘sequel’ or ‘squirrel’.” (Cue stupid clip-art graphic of a buck-toothed smiling squirrel on a tree branch, holding an acorn, because what’s a webinar without insipid mnemonics?) That sort of thing.

I grokked the use of ‘sequel’, because the letter sequence S-Q-L is exactly that word, sans vowels, and even if schwas are substituted for the vowels, the pronunciation doesn’t change much.

But for ‘squirrel’ I had to imagine that they were taking the R from ‘queRy’ and injecting it to make SQL into SQrL for the sake of a cute memory device that would resonate with people who weren’t expected to have any interest or investment deeper than a front-line customer service drone.