It always reminds me of this:

I had essentially the same experience, except my mother was the one telling me to ignore him (which never worked for obvious reasons) and my father was the one telling me I needed to fight back (which, again, stupid for obvious reasons). The most infuriating part of the interactions with my parents was how they either…

Just too much sugar, everything is too sweet now.

You are clearly defective and need to be sent back to the factory for repair.

I honestly haven’t had Honey Nut Cheerios in years, so it’s disappointing to hear that the corporate bean counters have struck again.

Are you really telling me that you’d go for Original over Honey Nut?

Right when the game started I told my wife the Packers had a great shot to lose this game.  I’m glad I went to bed when it was still 10-0.

how can they be so incompetent?

Between ranking Original above Honey Nut and putting Fruity at number one, I am inclined to think that you have literally no idea what you’re talking about.

She’s a very small woman.  It’s the perspective throwing you off.

We plan our holiday spending budget a year ahead of time.  By the time Oct rolls around, we’re already in solid shape to handle all the expenses.  Trying to jam through this period just a few months early is way too heavy a lift.  It’s much more manageable to start setting aside the cash a little bit at a time.

One way or the other.

Pay your bills on time and don’t die for the next 3 or 4 decades.

A Macho Man Savage impersonator?

Actual adults do this, too.  I once worked for a few weeks with this professional rodeo athlete named Luke Branquino.  At one point, this lady spots him and, ever so tentatively, approaches and asks if she could get his autograph.  He’s a decent guy and says, “sure, do you have something I can sign?”  She gives him…

It’s the standard Republican Logic. See also:

Thing is, at that point the military aid is irrelevant to the crime of asking for help from a foreign country to influence an election.  There doesn’t have to be a quid pro quo.

So, they fly because of olive oil?

This is exactly what we did with our youngest, who insisted on a destination wedding.  We told her that her wedding gift was having us there because all the money we were going to use for a gift just got used up with plane tickets, hotel, rental car, and food.

But it’s not a charity, its a business.