Originally Posted by Spicegurl

Wow. What an awesome post, HMBgal. Very informative and chock full of personal experience. (Do people still say "chock full"?) A lot of people copy and paste articles from other sites into Lens 101, and that's okay, but personal experience is so much better. Thank you.

By the way, I found this about the phrase "chock full."

chock-full
c.1400, chokkeful, possibly from choke "cheek." Or it may be from O.Fr. choquier "collide, thrust." Chock-a-block is nautical, said of two blocks of tackle run so closely they touch.