A few years ago, someone applied to manage Middlesbrough FC on the strength of his Football Manager stats and his experience coaching a local u-11 team... and received a personal reply from the club’s chairman:

Sometimes I forget David Ortiz on Fox Sports isn’t Kenan Thompson doing an impression of David Ortiz on SNL.

Same — I saw him at the Nasher in Durham NC all the way back in 2007.... So excite that he’s come this far!!

I think there’s an unspoken class element here. The 10e is one of the less affluent parts of Paris — and pigeon shit really is a problem. (It also happens to be where the large refugee encampments are.) I don’t know for sure, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the local residents are in favor of the mairie taking action,…

Because “disrespecting the troops” has been the easiest way to discredit someone since 9/11. It’s the (other) national politics version of this:

Yup.

“I’ll allow it for the time being.”

In case anyone’s gearing up to say that Maxwell doesn’t respect the troops, here’s a quote by him from 2015:

He’s heard his handlers talk about the current global political climate, and he’s decided he’s better off where he is.

Fair enough!

Is it the unnecessary pedantry corner? Because I’m pretty sure I didn’t use “octopi” anywhere there.

Oh wow, this is right up my alley - thank you!!

Also, in case anyone’s in the mood for some smart cephalopods, here are my favorite octopus intelligence videos :

In the clip above, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) are talking about Jon Hamm’s character and how he lives in a “bubble” of his own handsomeness.

Welcome to my life, friend.

Yessssssssss — stories about octopus intelligence thrill and terrify me in equal measures. Whenever I get drunk, I ask my biologist friend if octopuses would take over the world if they somehow managed to:

Great video, thanks for sharing.

Yes! She’s a British Ke$ha — down to them both being openly bisexual!

Now I sort of wish I had...

You’re welcome! Like I said, I feel like it’s the sort of music I should turn my nose up at, but it’s so boppy and I just love how unabashedly teenaged she is, for lack of a better word. And queer! It doesn’t feel like there’s any pretence there.