Watership Down is the best. It’s the Lord of the Rings, but with bunnies! It’s an entirely beautiful book, and it can mess up your entire childhood, should you happen to have…

It’s Really Not Just the Mormons

…who come off badly in Sherlock Holmes stories.

“Whilst on a date with my friend, the guy had a phone call and said ‘about 7’ then pretended it was the ppl he’d interviewed that day.”
 — A British writer Tweeted a bad-date memory that triggered a bad-date Twitter avalanche.

Rich has a girlfriend.

The kids today are all better at playing the piano than anyone who has ever lived. The New York Times, of course, misses the logical explanation:

The overall level of technical proficiency in instrumental playing, especially on the piano, has…

“[She was] having fun just like any other kid would out in the water.”
 — Until an amoeba swam up her nose and she died. Yet another reason to stay out of waters both chlorinated and un-. [Thanks, Sara.]

“I weep for the eight years I spent … worshipping his image with him, and I weep for whatever else I was cheated of due to that time-serving.”
 — Quit weeping, Martha Gellhorn, ladyfriend of Ernest Hemingway. Plus nine other weepy, Ill-Fated Literary Couples. (Who else Googled…

“[T]here’s always something, a particular physical trait or characteristic that helps merge siblings together. Sometime it’s the eyes, nose or mouth and sometime it’s only the facial structure.”
 — Photographer/graphic designer Ulric Collette pastes siblings’ and parents’ faces together. He does the…