GWS Hair of the Dog #738
Posted September 24, 2025 at 10:00 pm

Re-reading this one, I thought, "wow, we still used the word 'midget' back then?" but no, Young Danielle was just unaware of the fact that "little people" has been the preferred term for decades.

I hit Wikipedia for a quick synopsis of the history of the word, and was delighted by the renaming of a pub to The Roaring Raindrop, which I would absolutely adopt as my home bar just because "meet me at the Raindrop" sounds adorable. (Read the article for context!)

Anyway, if I had time to re-letter this (it's more time-consuming than people think), I'd just change the word to "Dwarfism!" but I think at this point anyone who's reading the reruns is also  a) scrolling down to read the commentary here, and a) aware of the outdated offensive hiccups throughout GWS. You're also probably cocking your head at Chris's last three choices along with me.

Here's the original post, and the chaser for this one!

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Danielle likes to read...

New faves!!

Underpants and Overbites
My Giant Nerd Boyfriend
Boumeries
Up and Out
Alison and her Rock Awesome Robot
Kevin Budnik's autobio comics
Lunarbaboon

~*TIMELESS CLASSICS*~

Questionable Content
Something Positive
Dumbing of Age
Diesel Sweeties
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Johnny Wander
Octopus Pie
That Deaf Guy
LunarBaboon
Sufficiently Remarkable
Blaster Nation
Ramen Empire
Molebashed
Murdercake
Jump Rope
Outlander Man

Too Sexy For Work!
Chester 5000 (too sexy for work!)

Oh Joy Sex Toy (also too sexy!)
The Rock Cocks (careful: sexy!)

Finished, but worth re-reading!
The Bad Chemicals
Cul de Sac 

I also love the podcast My Brother My Brother And Me!

My old pal R. Stevens and I used to do a podcast called Coffee and Cider! It was mostly about being work-obsessed idiots and human beings who like beverages and have cats.