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Rejected!
Rebuked!

In the imaginary professional baseball league in which my childhood friend and I were co-commissioners/team owners/perennial all-stars, my team was located in Bangor and named the Maine Dudes. His was the Minnesota Six-Packs.

The flip side of that coin is the fact that the wealthiest individuals and corporations understand the bankruptcy laws and notions of sunk costs.

It's always fun when celebs reveal their canned talking points on giving multiple interviews with the same/similar questions, but how perfectly Hodgman-esque is this riff?

Satisfied with decision to avoid anything Harry Potter related: Day 3791

Satisfied with decision to avoid anything Harry Potter related: Day 3791

Game of Thrones post? Check.
Star Wars post? Check.
Back to the Future post? Check.

[Stephen Colbert voice]

Man o' Nam

Also, the juxtaposition of two seemingly contradictory thoughts - "back to" (past) and "future" - that function as a synopsis of the plot creates a more interesting hook for the title. That makes the title a paradox, and there are two instances of Doc Brown in the film which makes it contain a pair of Docs, too.

:: yawns ::

Take my wife…please!

No it says, "How To Cook FOR Humans."

8. The College Dropout

Wouldn't have gone with trail mix and hand lotion as the punchline to something called "Toilet Brittle".

Kids think they are the first ones to do everything. In my day that was called a "Salty Cryptosporidium".

Colbert's books are done in character from the point of view that they are contractually obligated, hastily pieced together from old material, and a giant cash grab. It's a semi-funny conceit that doesn't really work all that well in practice mostly due to him succeeding too well at the hastily pieced together part.

Those who can't teach something, something, tenure.

Wait what trimester is she in? Maybe it's not too late.

To be fair the chimp is used as a visual metaphor. We aren't meant to take the chimp literally.