"What are you in for?" "TIC-TAC-TOE"
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"What are you in for?" "TIC-TAC-TOE"
Can you imagine being a bright kid repeatedly interrupted, chided, and slowed down because you were moving at a faster pace than the mean?
I hope all the neighborhood kids adopt that wide-legged stance he apparently thought was so intimidating and perform it any time they pass his house.
Only obese people, though. Gym bros will continue to spread wide at the shoulder and arms with no economic repercussions.
By what authority do they confine her?
You must be freezing!
Bullies generally operate out of insecurity. Putin's more of a sadist. To Trump, that's next level achievement. He aspires to inspiring terror rather than disdain, which is what he knows is his default.
We do actually need to pay attention to the distraction when death and punishment is the way they’re distracting.
No "to wit, a sandwich"?
It isn't just a matter of who will show up to accept the awards. Who's going to show up to perform their songs? A Kid Rock house band?
Hopefully the staff are doing the equivalent of WWII museums hiding collections from Nazi looting.
I'm old. I remember Matt Drudge's origin story on USENET groups as the guy who spammed BREAKING weekend box office reports on Tuesdays. Hope someday whoever weaponized him into "news" is revealed, because no way that moron built that propaganda engine.
What do they think people hunted WITH, if not tools? Ran down their prey on foot then killed and butchered them with their bare hands? Gathered berries and nuts in their cheeks? Survived winters without storing food against starvation?
The only people capable of disabling them surely are capable of finding a way to fail to do so.
Et tu, Lowes?
Disturbing from the parents, ghoulish from you.
Forks. My folks are accounted for.
If you find out, can you check if my folks are there? Live alone, eat 6 feet from the kitchen, have never taken cutlery anywhere else in the house and I have a dozen knives and 3 forks.
I cannot read the word "firmament" (in ANY context) without hearing her voice.
Do you have a U.S. release date yet? Can't wait!
Kappy's is a Route 1 landmark (liquor store). Everybody knows exactly where it is.
Prince Harry could make some good trouble here and do the DNA test.
"Here's to the town of Boston/The land of the bean and the cod/ Where Lowells speak only to Cabots/And Cabots speak only to God."
Eliza Jane Wilder?
America bailed on COSBY - they think we'd give Clinton a pass?
Hamilton West End changed "Weehawken" to "Jersey"
What about Fresca?
That only works if her replacement gives them what they want.
I'm starting to think they're not "files" as in paper records, but digital or video files and they know they don't have (all) the originals.
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...
There's a whole montage in Field of Dreams of Kevin Costner driving, driving, driving, and it's all the same block of Huntington Ave in Boston in front of the Museum of Fine Arts, shot from different angles.
I took Physics for Poets as a science elective. There was rather a lot of physics involved, as it turns out. But it was designed for an audience for whom none of it was intuitive, and that made a huge difference.
Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes theonion.com/study-9...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of the Dreyfus finance heirs? Christopher Guest is a Baron and member of the House of Lords, making Jamie Lee Curtis Lady Haden-Guest?
Lordy, I hope there are tapes...
"With a B. Yeah." Savage!
It's 100 degrees out and I've got diced raw chicken and a fresh cucumber. This comes just in time!
They probably traded that for reinstating pre-existing conditions.
Same. I don't *mind* it, but don't seek it out. Ours is next to a Jersey Mike's, which is similarly overpriced for half the quality of any local town pizzeria sub.
World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns
Knowing I have Denisovian DNA just got a bit creepier...
WDW once mailed me back a shirt I'd left in a hotel room and hadn't even noticed was missing.
If you like Poldark, that's a loooong series and quite enjoyable.
I'm still being recommended puberty books after a single purchase for kids now 30 and 32.
The same people who couldn't figure out the logistics of sending troops to LA?
Translation: He's afraid of Walz being "mean" to him.
There were 4 separate demonstrations in the 5 mile radius around my town. Each with hundreds, even more folk driving past and honking. Yes, Boston had great turnout, but this time the growth of local events increased the # of witnesses who saw protest first hand, whether or not it made the news.
Oh, the pain, the pain...
I can't help but think this reception is registering with not only the parade participants but Army brass.
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
If you can't join physically, drive by local protests, honk and smile. Saw several elderly couples drive by waving flags, passenger holding a sign up, or just honking and waving. One came by multiple times! There's a real feeling of *seeing* each other and expressing appreciation.
Just got home. Our town has had a group of 10-20 people out every Saturday for months. Today there were probably 500 and hundreds of passing cars honked and waved in support. Seeing grins on the faces of those riding by was definitely uplifting.
Interesting. Just watched the first episode and everybody's so awful I was going to drop it. Maybe I'll try again.
Every time I need a new mattress and they analyze my "sleep style" and push super soft cushy mattresses at me, I tell them "I'd like something in a slab of concrete, please."
In the 1950s your chance of surviving a heart attack in the US was about 50:50. Now the death rate is about 1 in 8. The price of that is you get to die later, and/or of other stuff.
The other day I saw a reel for cheez-its in place of rice krispies for rice krispie treats. Cheez-its have gone rogue!
Had to say to whose house I was going, but from there we'd roam for miles.
At least we'll always have the Lampoon Vegas Vacation scene with the directions to the elevators...
Why blur out Mass General Brigham?
I once heard a family in a nearby restaurant booth after the election discussing deportations and the grandpa insisting his grandson in law would be *fine* because he was *one of the good ones.* He seemed to believe this despite his own loved ones warning him. Willful ignorance doesn't absolve you.
NYT: Please, please force us to drop the follow-up piece to prove it isn't libel.
It will be epic if he singlehandedly gets employees and customers to shut it down a second time!
He was also with Natasha Lyonne - must have a thing for Scientologists.
My Dad was in the Air Force and their job was flying through the air afterward, testing levels of radioactivity.
His first wife said he was "a monk."
Came to same conclusion as a child when all the "life after nuclear holocaust" shows came out. Let me go first, pls.
Great pie is better than great cake. But mediocre cake is better than mediocre pie.
After-School Specials - you're one careless moment away from being a drug-addicted, pregnant, teenage alcoholic prostitute!
Northern Maine can feel like that in broad daylight!
Keep an eye on local estate/yard sales. I got a sweet little compact combo cd/radio/speakers set that now sits proudly in my office, so I can play them. Fortunately I ripped most of them onto my itunes library about 10 yrs ago when I had a laptop with a cd port. Not sure if those exist anymore.
Wow, that community college he dropped out of must have been wild.
You shouldn't even address people you KNOW on a first name basis by their first name in official correspondence!
Made a typo (in my own name!) on AB and that typo is how my donation requests from randos are addressed. People I've donated to directly spell it right.
Congressional Democrats? THIS is leadership!
Trump State Visit? I'm out!
May they get the welcome they deserve.
Shaming and shunning are literally free speech.
When my 8th grade history class had to do Presidential essays, Chester Arthur was my choice!
Father James Martin vouches for him, which is promising, since his ministry is LGBTQ outreach.
One of the joys of actual adulthood is leaning into this phenomenon and purposely triggering the cringe!
Humanities professors faces when I show them this hot new piece of cutting edge anti cheating tech:
People who have outside interests look forward to more time to enjoy them. Those who live and breathe nothing but work either avoid retirement or die shortly thereafter.
It will make a great supervillain compound for the tech billionaire he will sell it to in exchange for a kickback. Can't beat the views and privacy.
Dr. Toni Morrison on white women - a whole damn read:
It's unethical not to provide the minimal standard of care if there's an established effective treatment. You CAN design a trial that tests the current best treatment (or vax) vs new treatment.
Small consolation: he'll take the $ and screw them over anyway.
They just discovered a new class of antibiotics that appear to work on antibiotic-resistant strains and no doubt they'll kill its development.
Letting people with addiction die is entirely on brand: cruel, vindictive, and the ensuing death rates will provide pretext for increased oppression in the name of fighting drugs.
Custom made for opponent's campaign video - if not in primary then in general, so time to go!
And apparently she was 55 when she died in 1980, so 46 when the show began 9 yrs earlier.
Gloria was 20 when the show started, I think.
My friend routinely responds to "how are you?" With "tip top, couldn't be better!"
Archie and Edith were in their 40s!
Her family is all in, and that's a tough break to make if it means losing people you love.
She never had a thing to say about other deported babies, but NOW it's a problem. Hypocrite.
Check your immunity levels now and revax if necessary, because they'll probably ban vaccine production soon.
If Steve Buscemi and Eleanor Roosevelt had a baby...