I think I remember reading about a judge who got in trouble for spankin' it in court under his robes while making lewd comments about women who appeared in his courtroom.

Alternative (historical) facts, if you will.

When Mongolia sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with them. They’re bringing looting. They’re bringing pillaging. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good nomads.

I see it as a creative and really scabrous satire of Doctor Who, Back to the Future, and other planet-hopping time-bending "come on, we've got to save the Earth / Milky Way / entire Universe / whatever" brands of science fiction, but like a lot of ultra-violent Adult Swim "comedies", I don't actually find it all that f…

Elizabeth Taylor insisted that her friend Montgomery Clift be hired to play the doctor, even though he was barely able to act anymore due to his addiction to booze and pain pills, used to self-medicate pain from the effects of a car crash. He suffered doing a lot of takes, and most of the cast blamed the director and…

That example makes Curious George sound like Chaotic Neutral at best.

Sir, you have really misinterpreted Winnie-the-Pooh.

Dang.

Altogether now:

The closest I have ever got to what you describe was knocking back a pint of bitter in the Eagle and Child in Oxford, which of course was the local of Tolkien, Lewis, and their academic/literary friends the Inklings.

It's like the "fall" of the Roman Empire - the western half took their sweet time, two hundred years of it in fact, and the eastern half didn't get around to it for another thousand.

The individual Beatles were all great musicians in their own right, and some were great writers and arrangers as well, but the combined whole was so much greater still than the sum of the parts. And that combined whole came along at just the right place and at just the right time to become a legend.

Most of the characters got heavily Flanderized: Joey turns into a moron, Chandler combines gay panic with fears of inadequacy, Ross freaks out on anger issues, Monica becomes a neurotic obsessive harpy, Phoebe is an even more flaky New Age nut.

In the late 60's or very early 70's my uncle was a young man travelling in Europe with his brother and a good friend (my future father). They … ahem … liberated some beer steins from Oktoberfest, nice ones with Löwenbräu and Spaten logos, and wrapped them up carefully with padding and paper to make secure bundles. …

Shut the front door!

Can't believe I forgot to post a link to this parody menu yesterday. My favorites are "Reno!!!", "Panamania!", and "Football: The Meal".

"Donkey Sauce" sounds like one of those fake gross sex acts invented by bored twelve-year-olds posting on Urban Dictionary, like Dirty Sanchez or Cleveland Steamer.

It's pretty much inevitable. Almost every new word related to politics or current events gets bandied about, repurposed, bastardized, and used as an insult until it eventually becomes meaningless.

I'm pretty sure George Orwell was getting at the same idea in the appendix to 1984 in which he discusses the implications of Newspeak.

"This is your captain speaking… do not rush for the lifeboats … women, children, Red Indians, spacemen and a sort of idealized version of complete Renaissance Men first!"