MannyBones
MannyBones
MannyBones

You left off the last (and best) line!

“Artoo-Opustoo is stuck in the mud” gives me a laugh every time.

Ok, some clarification may be in order here regarding the context.

First of all, the only thing Biden can promise is a nomination. He can’t promise any votes from the Democratic caucus, and he can’t promise that no Democratic Senator won’t filibuster the nomination (and under existing rules any Democratic Senator can

Yes, very. I posted the same thing, but I’m a lowly grey. And apparently always will be. 

At some point he probably was a snowboarding date rapist. But then there was a traffic accident, which failed to deter him from driving like a psychopath, and now he’s just a date rapist.

Only my favorite:

One year I had piled up six full weeks of vacation time, so I took off from Thanksgiving to New Years.  I set my email auto-responder to tell everyone that I was spending the month of December dead for tax reasons.

Worked the front desk and dining hall for the law school housing in undergrad. Can confirm, a miserable group (the men and women, to be fair). Highlight: having a guy yell at me that the free ping pong balls we lent out weren’t regulation...I not so kindly reminded him he was welcome to purchase his own. Eventually

As a black man I just have to say that this particular usage of blackface had me laughing and I’m sad this episode is no longer available.

Hey Courtney, wait’ll ya getta load a dis:

and I love every minute of it.

Or kindergarten dispute.

Nina Paley’s movies are pretty good though she leans a bit too heavily on the songs to carry the narrative.

The real problem for anyone willing to take on the debt is that they also becomes responsible for changing Harry Knowles’ diapers.

I’m not really questioning the high/low part as much as the lack of slope. But holy cow you hit it on the head with the LEGO comparison. There was something so very familiar about these and it’s exactly that!

Ironically, the ones who use constitution to explain their behaviour the most tend to actually understand it the least (“Banning me from Twitter is a violation of my first amendment rights!” “it’s a violation of my religious rights to allow gay people to marry in completely secular, non-church related ceremonies, even

Oh man as soon as the 1/6 riot happened I went straight to NewsHour and watched every day until the inauguration. PBS is maybe the only national-news broadcast I’ll watch (local news can be okay if they’re not owned by Sinclair or similar).