Callie's been hanging out with my mother a lot lately.

At least once a day I get a call about how my cat is sitting on her lap. I'm not entirely sure if she's complaining or boasting - Callie is renowned for not being the most sociable of our animals. "Why does she do this?"

Well, she's learned that your room is a warm, largely dog-free space where I frequently pop in and give her a snuggle, so she hangs out there. After hanging out there for three years she's decided she ought to occasionally leave her spot in the furthest corner of the room and say hi.

I can explain this to my mother, but I can't stop her from calling me about it.

In other cat news, Mama Cat keeps deciding the time for snuggles is right after I sat down at the keyboard (naturally) and Sweetheart has successfully conned two other families into feeding her, and is now absolutely the sleekest cat on the block, spoiled animal.

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My sister has a bit of a question.

She's trying to track the origin of the term "BBW", or "Big Beautiful Woman". The earliest citation Wikipedia gives is the eponymous magazine in 1979, but frankly the evidence there is a little scanty. Jenn is certain it must have originated earlier, probably in porn.

I think the odds of getting conclusive evidence without a full-on trawl of IRL documents is slim to none, but does anybody have a verifiable citation prior to 1979? Personal anecdotes that are dated to sometime before the 1970s are helpful too, but only if you are certain that you're not muddying the timeline, as people are wont to do.

Alternatively, if you can recommend a reliable amateur lexicocographer to do the legwork, one who is active as of now, that'd be useful too.