(millennial scoff) More like Lucius Voracious and Titus El Pollo

Like a trash monster that feeds on sewage, it only makes him stronger.

LONG LIVE BCO

by Philip Larkin

Ha! Thanks for the solidarity. We have a good relationship now. She had to heal from hearing the same things from her dad.

My dad used to joke when I had braces that all I needed in addition to those railroad tracks were glasses and then I would never find a husband.

Dad when I was 15: “You could stand to lose a few...” I was around 135 then...and I’m 5’7”.

The idea is that she knows it, Warren Beatty knows it, but if he admits he thinks that, even to himself, she proves his point.

Actually, it’s a pretty cool epistemic move that she’s making — unless and until she definitively says who the song’s about, there’s no way to know who it’s really about. But the vain dude is *sure* it’s about him. The point isn’t about whether he’s right or not — it’s that he’s making an assumption that’s based in…

just because he happened to be right, doesn’t make him not vain for thinking it. I think that’s the meta-beauty of the song.

My BFF and I have a running joke about the fact that Johnny is, literally, a hooker with a heart of gold. Dr. Houseman is right to be a little concerned about his daughter dating the prostitute she’s known for a week.

The point is the song “being about you” is hypothetical and the listener is vain for making the assumption that of all the people Carly knows, it’s about him. He is self important.

“I’m here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I am physically incapable of chewing bubblegum”

“It gets into your armor, your rebreather, everywhere.”

“...and sand. I don’t like sand.”

For what it is worth, this guy is a lawyer.

The toaster one reminds me of the time one of the librarians smelled food and tracked it down to a woman who was sitting at a reading desk with a crock pot plugged in underneath it, cooking chicken stew.

Ok, not as good as Atlas Chugged, but how about Dagny Staggered?

How silly of you, they are husband and husband. The gay robots from Star Wars after all!

This definitely seems like the hill to die on. Good choice there.