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She had been refused service at the then all-male restaurant. I don’t think equal rights for women was a valid argument in 1905, but she nevertheless sued and won. So how did she win?

In the excellent series of Commissario Ricciardi mysteries by Maurizio de Giovanni, set in Naples, various speakers (as translated and presumably in the original Italian) use the above and various other shortenings of titles and names (e.g., Bambine' for Bambinella). Is this a general thing in colloquial Italian, typical only of Naples and perhaps other regions, or what?

I know why the producers would want the actor to strip--Tovey has developed an impressive body, as shown in phots--but what's the *character's* motivation? The video at the NewYorkCityTheatre site seems to show his brother Marco also gets shirtles w/ him.

The above was stated in an answer here in Y!/A as tho it was a certainty.

Is it established that this happens w/ bisexuals--even if it's only for a minority--switching back and forth from male to female preference? Or do they/you always feel attraction (not necessarily 50/50) to both genders?

Sign me,

Ignorant Gay Guy

P.S. Ignorance is curable! Help me find a cure.

When LGBTQIA means Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, QUEER, Intersex, Asexual and/or Ally, it makes sense to me.

But what possible use is including "questioning", as I see the acronym expanded in more than one place? (And Wikipedia notes 'Other variants may add a "U" for "unsure" [and/or] a "C" for "curious"', which come to the same thing.)

So far as I can tell, society is not now, and hopefully never will be, in a thought-control situation where merely wondering what one is requires the kind of legal and social support that knowing what one is--and that our identity isn't the heterosexual norm!--requires.

If this attitude is insensitive and/or ignorant, that why I'm posting, in order to be enlightened.

I recently read a NYTimes article declaring that swing shorts are a new element of Dsquared2's current men's fashion show.

My text Net searches find no explanation, and image searches turn up women's garments that, to me at least, just look like various women's shorts. My run thru a slideshow of the Dsquared2 presentation doesn't help.

So I turn to y'all. Helpppp!

Thx!

Note: Article is "Dsquared sticks with the formula" at http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/dsquare...

They aren't "printer's marks" (the term I thought I remembered) or "printer's devices". Both terms mean a more or less elaborate colophon at the ends of books.

I'm talking about the pretty little things scattered through the text, sometimes only as large as 2 characters together, as a substitute for a blank line, or substituting for or supplementing a paragraph starting w/o an indent.

More than one guy has declared in Y!/A (usually in the LGBT section) that he gets turned on by looking at hot male bodies, in life and/or in pix--at least one even masturbates to climax--but the thought of actually having sex w/ another guy turns him off.

My best guess, which I've expressed to them AS a guess, is that these guys are excited by the idea of BEING a built guy showing off for the world. They identify w/ the sexy models rather than lusting after them.

Others over in LGBT dismiss them as "bi or bi-curious". But given that these guys want to date only girls and have sex only with girls, I have to say they're str8, not bi.

Since I haven't seen any better explanation than my own guess in LGBT, I'm now offering the problem in this section.

Any insights, people?

I'm reading a historical novel, and have been struck by all the instances of "de" in surnames being spelled w/ an apostrophe, which is apparently standard usage in Italian.

The online dictionaries and grammars inform me that an Italian apostrophe indicates a dropped final vowel. That is in fact what I expected, as in D'Egidio, presumably elided from De+Egidio, or Dell'Amore, I suppose from Della+Amore, or Dell'Orso, from Dello+Orso (if I've got my genders right), eventually from Di+Lo+Orso.

But I can't figure what's going on with de' before consonants! Looking up "de" gets me nowhere, except to make perfectly clear that the Italian equivalent of Spanish "de" (which I know more about) is "di", and that "de" is restricted to names.

So, what's the history here?

Until the news reports of Lululemon yoga pants being recalled (they were too thin over the buttocks and went see-thru when a woman bent), I had never heard of yoga pants.

And now that I have, and I've done image searches on the Net, I don't see how "women's yoga pants" is a different category from "women's exercise pants"! Most of the hits show what I'd call tights--no surprise, given what the str8 guys like to look at--but those at http://yoga.about.com/od/yogagear/tp/yogapants.htm range from form-fitting to form-disguising, ankle length to calf length.

Is that site misleading, and "yoga pants" is ordinarily just a synonym for "exercise tights"? If so, is this just trendiness in labeling, or what? If not, what exercise pants (other than shorts!) would you NOT call yoga pants?

In the Papal Stakes installment, he's said to be striking and distinctive, but w/o a word of detail.

And I can't remember what I've read earlier.

So, HELP?!?

And nevertheless show up on the list when sorted by fewest answers?

Happens occasionally in LGBT, where I usually hang out, too. But it's an absolute plague here in R&S!

I'm wondering, of course, about former US President George H.W. Bush, who had such a problem w/ a bronchitis-type illness. All I can find from a 'Net search is that his spokesman, when asked, didn't know why the diet was prescribed either.

Of course we must avoid long-distance diagnosis, so: Why MIGHT a man LIKE the ex-President be prescribed a liquid diet in SIMILAR circumstances?

I'm talking about a simple two-beam scale, the kind many health clubs (including mine) and more traditional doctor's offices use.

Quite a while ago, I heard or read that it's good to set such scales back to zero rather than leave them displaying your weight. But I don't remember from whom or where, so I can't evaluate the claim's likely reliability.

I'm asking this in Engineering rather than where the Y!/A robot suggests because I hope someone here can figure out the answer, even if they don't already know it. (Better yet if somebody knows, I suppose!)

Specifically, is calling Mr. Putin "Vlad Vladimirovich" merely over-familiar, or too bizarre to use at all?