This is just a note for the Millions to alert you all that I, jodih, have changed my screen name to Jodi, because, well, because that’s my name.
But despite the name change, it’s the same old product you’ve always known and trusted! Effective in hot-water, color-fast, and no need to pre-treat! The same low price as well!
Oh, and I now have e-mail, so feel free to send those love-letters and/or nasty-grams you’ve been saving up. 
My question to you is why you initially called yourself jodih insted of jodi. was the name taken?
I initially called myself “jodih” because my previous experience with the Internet (still very limited) consisted solely of participating in a game where you had to have a name of five or more characters, no caps. When I signed up at the SDMB fifteen months ago, I just used the same name. A certain lack of imagination, I guess; certainly I didn’t put a ton of thought into it. Pretty boring explanation, huh?
Whoa! That’s a big step there, jodih/jodi. I think you would have been well-advised to move slower, say first go to “jodin” (removing half of the h) before you go all the way to jodi with no h. But we’re here to help through this difficult transition period.
Trivia for the day (thanks to Encyclopædia Britannica): borax is also called tincal or sodium tetraborate decahydrate.
once she becomes more and more comfortable she’ll shed more and more letters until she’s just “j”
I try to avoid you “born-again” types … 
Always willing to add essentially nothing to an otherwise mundande thread.
I didn’t realize usernames were case sensitive when I first signed up. If I had, I would be Pluto – instead I’m some bit character from Don Marquis.
Don’t you know limonene is a really nasty allergen? Don’t you care at all about the suffering of all those poor little asthmatic kids?
For shame!
Ahem…uh, if I may interject, you may have email, but us Teeming Millions can’t send anything to your address from here. (You forgot to switch it.)
No, no, no! It’s “Lemon-Freshening Borax”! You know, borax you use to freshen lemons with. Say, Jodi, I have some lemons over at my place that are getting kinda stale. Are you doing anything tomorrow?
You know what happens when you mix borax with Elmer’s glue? Try it. (Don’t worry. It’s safe.) You get a weird, slimy, gooey polymer that’s kinda fun to play with. It eventually hardens, but it’s fun while it lasts.
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
–Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene ii
Just kidding–I’m a paralegal and my job depends on making people like you think I’m actually helping them!
Congratulations on the name change! (I know, that sounds lame, but what am I supposed to say?)
pluto,
I just got my capital ‘T’ recently. Let me tell you, that was a thrilling experience! I feel so empowered now. My whole life has changed. No longer am I the meek, mealy-mouthed tymp, but the great and mighty Tymp of myth and legend!
Well, anyway . . . Send email to an administrator and ask to have your name modified. With enough bribes and flattery, they might do it and only take one of your eyes as compensation.
“Oh, Jodi! I’m glad! There’s lemon-freshened Borax in you!”
Crap. STRAINGER, thanks for pointing out the obvious to the oblivious. NOW I have e-mail.
Oh, and DRY – I have quite a little talk worked up about that Shakespeare quote, because not many people know the context, which, in a nutshell, is this: The line is spoken in by conspirators plotting to overthrow the King. They conclude that if you want to overthrow the legitimate, legal government, and do so in a way that the masses are not alerted to the illegitimacy and illegality of your actions, the first thing to do is kill all the lawyers. So the quote is not the insult to lawyers it is so often cited as. Not that there aren’t a zillion other insults people can fling at us . . . .
EVE – I’m glad someone got the reference.
Jodi, it’s funny. I’ve been able to stump literally dozens of lawyers with the trivia question: “In what play of Shakespeare’s did he suggest killing all the lawyers?”
Seriously. I’ve fooled attorneys who were theatre arts majors as undergrads. Also ones who were English majors. (Common guesses: Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice)
ONE, and ONLY ONE attorney has ever gotten this right. And he knew, just as you did, the context.
Actually, I’m very familiar with the play–I’m a big Wars of the Roses buff, which is mostly what the play is about. I could tell you more about that play than you would possibly want to know. (Given that it wasn’t one of Shakespeare’s most brilliant works)
The rebellion is “Jack Cade’s Rebellion”. And, in fact, you are really overstating the rebel aims (as outlined in the play) to say that they were even attempting to overthrow the government. “Looting” would be more accurate. They were a mob of the ignorant unwashed, plain and simple. Among the items in Jack Cade’s agenda:
“There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer”
–Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene ii
Later, they put to death an educated man for the crime of knowing how to read.
For what it’s worth, by the way, the character who utters the “let’s kill all the lawyers” line is named …ahem …“Dick”. Res Ipsa Loquitor.
Of course, I could seriously hijack my hijack by pointing out that in the eyes of many, the Lancastrian government was not the legitimate government: The Yorkists (who Cade may or may not have been acting as agent of) had a claim to being the legitmate heirs to the throne. But that’s another thread…
Sounds good to me…wanna share a hot tub sometime? 
You’re one of the coolest posters around, with or without the h.
It’s 90% of lawyers that give the rest a bad name…
Or as Letterman out it:
The Arkansas Bar has opened proceedings to consider disbarring Clinton because he “does not have the morals” to be a lawyer… You can’t go any lower than that!