Serious question: Do these people really not know how solar/wind energy works (i.e., the elements create the energy, which is then stored)? Or are they feigning ignorance for the benefit of their ignorant viewers?
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Serious question: Do these people really not know how solar/wind energy works (i.e., the elements create the energy, which is then stored)? Or are they feigning ignorance for the benefit of their ignorant viewers?
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I was hoping that the band Crush on You became The Jets, but it turns out they were originally called Quasar.
Not a band, but who can forget T. Rex's hit "Goolagong (Get it On)"?
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
Any country that has more guns than people is not going to make it.
Edgcumbe vandals refuse to be associated with ambiguity.
I'm making less than ever, the job market is extremely tight, my staff were deported, my wife left me, and I can't source a part for my car without paying a premium, but at least the restaurant I eat at once every two months looks the same
Between this and the Wentz deal, the Vikings must be feeling a little nervous about young Mr. McCarthy.
I made something similar but titled it 'Their Least Worst.'
They don't want to hear from the victims, only the perpetrators.
We're not seeing organic, incremental inflation anymore. This is companies realizing they can charge whatever they want and get away with it. But they'll never blame him. Never.
Or in Archie Bunker's words, Engelbert What's-His-Dink.
He stands there starting to formulate a bullshit answer, then it occurs to him that he doesn't have to answer if he doesn't feel like it. That's the level of arrogant lawlessness Republicans have arrived at.
Insomnia subcategory: Fifth Dimension - "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All" Bobby Lewis - "Tossin' and Turnin'" Bob Dylan via Frank Sinatra - "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night"
"Hurricane" might fit too.
"The United States should be given" = "I should be given"
For years when I saw a Rhino CD in the used bins, I would grab it whether I was familiar with the artist or not. They helped me get up to speed on those I didn't know well (Pitney, Nazz, Sparks, countless doo-wop combos) and dig deeper into artists I already loved (Coasters, Turtles, Warwick).
T. Rex and Mott the Hoople had only one hit song each in the U.S., but each band was mentioned in the lyrics of two U.S. hit songs. One of the songs that mentioned T. Rex was by Mott the Hoople.
Nuggets has to be up there, considering the god-knows-how-many grey-market compilation series (Pebbles, Boulders, Highs of the Sixties) that came in its wake.
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
One of those guys who takes up drinking scotch and smoking cigars because he's been convinced that as a man he must learn how to enjoy "the finer things in life."
Don't worry though, it's totally fine that the NFL now partly owns ESPN, it won't change anything, there's no journalistic problem, it's all good
Burn on, you crazy diamond.
A time to chop, a time to dice, a time to mince, a time to slice....
He's weak and he's stupid. A light snack for someone like Putin.
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
There's also the small matter of the song in question being the best thing on that album by about a thousand miles.
"I Wanna Destroy You" seems like a lot of hostility from a band called The Soft Boys.
When the only job requirement is blind obedience, you're probably not going to end up with the cream of the intellectual crop.
I'd forgotten that brief era when Phyllis Diller was a co-owner, presumably with Fang as a silent partner.
Someone please just go to Goodwill and buy him an old bowling trophy.
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
If your favorite thing about the job are the freebies and perks, you're probably terrible at that job.
Her use of language is typical of one who talks a lot, listens rarely, and reads never.
Paradoxically, the '80s band Spooner was from Madison.
When Jimi Hendrix appeared on Lulu's BBC variety show, he enraged the producers by going over his allotted time with a cover of "Sunshine of Your Love" that he dedicated to "The Cream," who had recently broken up.
The person who named them woofers and tweeters should have named more stuff.
Many songs whose titles begin with "I Am" are shamelessly false. You are in fact not the walrus, a rock, the cosmos, etc.
Imagine a company where the only qualification to work there is to kiss the boss's ring. Imagine the caliber of employees you'd end up with. Well, guess what, you don't have to imagine it.
"We're entitled." "I'm allowed." Etc. He truly, sincerely sees himself as a king.
Does anyone else remember a couple of months ago when a Republican terrorist shot four people killing two of them in an effort to give control of the Minnesota legislature to Republicans?
For me he's tied with Buddy Holly for that distinction. Going by his final recordings/demos, he was ready to take pop in who knows how many stylistic directions. Holly would have been a contemporary of The Beatles, not just a role model; unlike Elvis, he would never have shrunk from their challenge.
Donny's reaction told us everything. He couldn't even feign comprehension that he was being teased. All he could do was fume and pout.
The building, parts of which are currently used for student housing, has a truly fascinating history. My favorite factoid from the Wikipedia page is that Luca Brasi and Sollozzo's meeting was filmed in the lobby bar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_S...
My favorite running gag on that show was that Jennifer was a receptionist at a low-rated mid-market AM radio station, yet she lived in a luxury apartment. They just set that out for whoever wanted to pick it up.
He lost an election and refused to accept the results. He forced the Smithsonian to lie about American history. He fired the head statistician bcuz he didn’t like the jobs numbers. He can’t handle the truth. We elected the biggest pussy/coward/sore loser in all of human history.
People now forget that the original SNL cast made a pact never to break. They'd seen enough of that from Harvey Korman and Tim Conway and they thought it was tacky and unprofessional (not that I don't love Korman and Conway).
That would be an $80 ticket these days!
It's telling that his signature move on SNL was to "break" -- to lose, or pretend to lose, his composure during a sketch in order to garner a cheap laugh. He's a hack to end all hacks.
A then-coworker was the last one to make it across. She felt the bridge starting to buckle and without thinking hit the gas. At that same moment the motion of the collapse somehow threw her car forward onto 2nd, or University, or whatever the first cross street was at the north end of the bridge.
I once caught one neck deep in our garbage. I poked at the bin, and he just calmly raised his head and looked at me like I owed him money. Eat your fill, pardner, I said as I timidly walked away.
Colbert gets canceled for purely political reasons, which is obvious to anyone with a pulse except Adam Platt, who is celebrating the cancellation because he didn’t think Colbert was funny. Another banger for the Star Tribune op-ed page.
"Shake" by Otis Redding "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" by Major Lance (I think it's five Ums, maybe six.) "Infatuation" by Rod Stewart
And anytime someone, implicitly or otherwise, claims to have the market cornered on common sense, they probably....well, you can finish it.
OK This headline is a total and complete lie. The cyberattack did NOT take down the city & emergency services. An attack was detected & city shut down all technology systems as a RESPONSE to that attack to prevent any further data loss/damage and/or system loss/damage. @kare11.bsky.social is wrong
In fairness, if you don't remember the commercials for the board game that gave the band its name -- and you didn't notice the umlauts -- you might not have a solid idea of how to say it.
The Die Kreuzen thing was in 1987, I'm pretty sure. I think the kid was paralyzed. My editor at City Pages, Michael Welch, did a story on it and was talking to someone from the band while I was there, and they understandably were quite upset about it.
Or any woman who outsmarts him.
It's been more than eight years. WHY do reporters still ask him questions presuming that he has the first clue about the question's subject?
Similar story with Alan Arkin's obit a while back. The older the public figure, the more likely the obit is in the can and ready to go pending any updated facts.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
As he stands there literally slack-jawed. My god, these people.
He also has three songs each that mention a penny, a nickel, and a dollar. None that mention a quarter (not the unit of currency, anyway).
During the spring of 1978, our 9th-grade mechanical arts teacher always had the radio on during class, so I can't see a T-square without thinking of this song.
I think I've heard the Style Council's "My Ever Changing Moods" more in grocery stores than I ever heard it on the radio.
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
"Harriet Hageman may be okay for Wyoming Republicans, but will she play in Baltimore" is somehow never a questions that's asked
He'll never be as ugly on the outside as he is on the inside. But damned if he isn't at least making it competitive.
If you've never heard the album pictured, FIND IT. Completely brilliant in concept and execution.
eBay told me recently that I "successfully actioned an opportunity." I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed.
Unless you count the "writer, writer" bit in the a cappella chorus, which has shades of a dominant chord (D, in this case) related to the home key.
Run, piggy, run.
"Rich creep busted with his mistress at a Coldplay show" is a bit too on the nose.
Creepies, Mudhead!
The bands are always a teensy bit off the way most amateur musicians are, but these kids tackle some pretty interesting numbers.
If only the town crier had let everyone know.
Andover could claim a big one if Bob Dylan still owns rec property near there -- and if indeed it's near there and not near Hanover (I can never remember which).
You’re not evil for asking why the president cut services and let your family drown.
If they were going after hardcore gangbangers, I think we would have seen some pretty intense shootouts by now. The "worst of the worst" generally don't go into custody quietly.
John Cale, I believe?
"Gotta See Jane," R. Dean Taylor's follow-up to "Indiana Wants Me."
He also had "Janey Needs a Shooter," which Warren Zevon re-wrote as "Jeannie Needs a Shooter."
Opposite of this would be Elvis Presley's "I Gotta Know," where the question of whether you will take away his cares and woe precedes the expression of urgency in the title.
As a Sports Illustrated subscription premium, that video was somewhat preferable to the football phone.
"Fold my mandibles and pray for rain" just would not have fit the meter.
Every one of his answers is some variation on either "I don't know" or "I don't care." Seriously this guy is so completely checked out.
That last one reminds me of my favorite line from a Jim Thompson book: "I fired at him three times. When I was done, he didn't have much left in the way of a head."
Kat Bjelland was straight-up frightening.
I didn't know this until I checked, but "A Taste of Honey" was also from a Broadway play (of the same name). The play was first staged in London, but the song was written for the later American production.
This mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist.
Park for free on 8th Street, behind Heppner's Auto Body. You'll have to walk a few blocks.
“The pattern is clear once you know what to look for. MAGA appeals to people who need to feel special, who need enemies to blame, who need simple answers to complex problems…The scary thing about MAGA isn’t that it’s obviously evil—it’s that it’s appealing to people who think they’re good.”
Once-fun rock musicians who became right-wing fruitcakes seems to be a growing club: Daniels, Eric Carmen, Rick Derringer, etc.
Doing all the raps and shooting all the jobs.....
"Trumpenomics." OMG I'm going to collapse and die from mirth.
Perfect
Next time? You mean there was a first time?
