Here’s your off-topic and general interest thread for the holiday week.

Here’s where the elite(?) will meet the week of December 18 for off-topic and general discussion.

Talk about this, that, or the other here, cher public, in your general discussion thread for the week of December 11.

If you promise not to interrupt the music, cher public, you are invited to discuss any and all topic in this week’s intermission feature.

La Cieca insists you, the cher public, observe the “no whispering” rule during the performance, but, come intermission time, you are encouraged to chatter on and on about anything and nothing this week of November 27.

As the dear Marquise de Merteuil found out to her sorrow, the only worse than not being talked about was being talked about. But worst of all, cher public, is having no place to go for general interest and off-topic conversation. So here you are: your place to promenade during this week’ intermission.

Even the shooting stars of the heavens cannot compare to the dazzling spectacle of the cher public (pictured) shooting off their mouths.

The cher public (pictured) is invited to promenade, play cards, consult with matchmakers, gossip about that wicked Marquise de Merteuil, and, oh yes, discuss anything off-topic during this lovely week of November 6, 2011.

Get your effete knives out for general interest and off-topic conversations for the week of October 30.

La Cieca (missing from photo) invites you, the cher public, to discuss events otherwise not specified during the week of October 23.

Here it is, cher public, your arena for effete knife-throwing the week of October 9.

Mesdames, messieurs, and others: here it is, your weekly chance to shine in off-topic badinage, chitchat, persiflage, raillery, repartee and small talk.

La Cieca invites the dear companions of her loge (i.e., the cher public) to chatter away about any and all unrelated topics, on this, your Intermission Feature thread for the week of September 18.

Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, your off-topic and general interest thread for the second week of September.

La Cieca (absent, trying to find out what the hell is taking so long with those marrons glacés) invites the cher public (pictured) to while away the week of August 22 talking of this, that, and nothing at all.

La Cieca invites the cher public to comment, speculate, complain and natter on any and all off-topic subjects during the week of August 15.

If you are going to cut something, you cut someone else’s off-topic discussion, not mine!