Ach, I’m having law school flashbacks. Under the statute of frauds, contracts for actions that cannot possibly be performed within one year must be in writing. But lifetime contracts don’t need to be in writing, at least at common law, because there’s no guarantee that the person will live more than one year.

A promise is usually a contract. “I promise to give you my bike if you promise to give me $100.” “I promise to give you free food for life if you promise not to sue me.”

Seattleite here. I think it’s a little silly to stock up like this if you’re in Seattle proper (you could always just put on a pair of boots and walk to the nearest grocery store if the roads are not driveable), but those of us in the nearby Cascade foothills really are screwed when it snows a lot. We’ve got a foot…

Seriously. Trump proved in 2016 that a ham sandwich can be elected as president, so why not run?

Yep, there is a case I recall of an actor who appeared in a film (I think it was the original Predator) and then sued when they used his likeness for an action figure, when he hadn’t signed away his right to use his likeness to promote any products (such as an action figure). He won.  Movie studios haven’t repeated…

Uh, I didn’t miss the joke, I was commenting on the sentiment underlying the joke. 

Not really, I think the point is that you personally own the right to use your own likeness to promote a product or service.  This means that someone else cannot use your likeness to promote a product or service unless you give them that right.  Fiji screwed up if they didn’t get Cuthbert to sign away this right…

No I got the joke, I was just reflecting on the underlying sentiment expressed in the joke. :)

Seriously, could you pick another rich dude to pick on? I don’t think anybody out there believes that Paul McCartney doesn’t deserve every quid he’s earned. Whereas with the corporate/Wall Street gazillionaires, you just know that they pulled a couple fast ones to accumulate so much cash (e.g. they cut out another…

Going down a google rabbit hole, I discovered this: shichirin “takes its name from the Japanese words for ‘seven rin’—the archaic cost of a batch of cooking charcoal.”  So it’s somewhat like using the term “quarter pounder” to describe a type of sandwich.  

Have you tried drying it with heat? Every time I use my wok (or my cast iron), I towel it dry, coat it with a little oil, and put it on the stove on high heat until it smokes.

“Real real roads, with race cars on them. Race cars that are also road cars.”

Last time I went to a grocery store when the registers were down, they wouldn’t even let me hand them a $10 bill and walk away with a gallon of milk because it would mess with their computerized inventory.

“So those aren’t even his words if he has a PR firm.”

Well she was going to be escorted to Afghanistan by the military, and the Prez is the commander in chief of the military.  But it’s a pretty disgusting abuse of his power as commander in chief.  Add it to the pile of reasons to ITMFA. 

It’s constitutionally required, but the Constitution doesn’t say it has to be an annual thing, nor does the Constitution say that it has to be a speech given on the House floor. 

Motherfucker is proud of this too, posing with his piles of cold fast food.

You’re probably right -- still not a pretty picture, though. 

Pomegranates are not as hard as the graph indicates.

Part of the analysis has to be whether the quality of the fruit is haphazard. Who doesn’t love a really good peach, but then you go buy one and it’s too hard or it’s mealy and mushy. Same risk factor with melons, pears, kiwis. Apples are more reliable, grapes less so but at least you can try them before you buy them.