I can't wait to see Len's flare.

What are you, a bleached-blonde, pompadoured owl?

TYPO ALERT:

I can't imagine the phrase "between a rock and a hard spot/place" as having caught on except through people repeating it ironically to point out its sheer stupidity. I can imagine the first shlub who uttered it just failing miserably at the attempt to sound profound: "Lose my career or lose my self-respect.  I'm…

"I have a problem at work.  The former CEO of my Fortune 500 company was something of an eccentric; although he chose me as his successor, and I accepted, he asked me to keep the news a secret for the present.  However, in order to assure me that his intentions were true, he took out a tattoo gun and tattooed the…

Another stroke victim. Welcome to the club.

@Scrawler2:disqus it's a purely fictional event that mostly occurs in my pants.

We are gathered here together in mourning, and in celebrating the life, of K. Thrace, loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and all-around swell human being.  Though she fed and clothed the hungry, sheltered and applied hair dye to a small fellow ginger girl during the dark months of the Chastain…

It's like the old riddle:

Roses are red!
Pies are a food!
I'm under your bed…
Do you sleep in the n*de? Ha ha!

Nope.

Burl writes all my Valentines as well.

@avclub-7485b644403627612cc11d3e80ffa907:disqus I just want my organs back!

You're about to sail into a shit typhoon @avclub-00989c20ff1386dc386d8124ebcba1a5:disqus  , so you'd better haul in the jib before it gets covered with shit.

@LP Well, I've always fancied the pseudonym Mike Hunt.  Subtle.  Realistic-sounding.  Some other multi-national options: Steve Hyden-Sikh, Dafuq ibn Smokhin, Helmut Hoche (good phonebook entry).

@Lucifer's Peaches,  I just got a  notification that someone with the initials D. M. responded to my post.  Is Disqus handing out our real names now?

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus *tiny, muffled voice* "…yes it goes on and on my friend…"

You mean they didn't bury her with Shari Lewis?  That doesn't seem right.

Not necessarily.  In academic contexts and especially philosophy "affect" can be used as a noun, as in Deleuze and Guattari's definition of the work of art as a "bloc of sensation, a compound of percepts and affects". You find lots of other academic references to "affect" as an abstract noun too.

Let's see…Vanna White and "Weird Al" Yankovic…okay, enjoy the awards.