I love that line and everyone always thinks it’s from Trading Places

Super weird confession: I grew up and came out back in, like, the salad days of the WBC. Like, back when people actually got upset about them and didn’t just find them hilariously inept, and they protested Matthew Shepard’s funeral, and they were a big fucked up target for all the rage we felt at everybody who was a…

There’s a reference to that line in Trading Places, when Winthorpe goes to the country club after being arrested. Which I thought was awesome.

It wasn’t until I saw Auntie Mame several years after seeing Trading Places (which gets aired all the time), that I knew where that line came from. Some of the people that I work with are really insipid, and one time someone excitedly came into work with the family "scandal"; her sister-in-law had used a liquid…

I knew Ellie was under 5 feet from her avatar thing here on Gawker, but I really thought Joanna was about 5'6". Actually pretty surprised about this.

It’s July.

You’re missing their point. To wit, black people are getting so uppity since Obama and that’s racism against white and purple people.

Cheer up, emokid

Don’t be so fucking melodramatic.

I’m sorry to hear about your troubles. If it is any consolation, I myself have gotten dramatically older and comically fatter during the eight-year Obama regime.

Yeah, same here, “bad genetics”

You must be fun at parties.

festive orange crime scene tape

i have to say, i would not be pleased with my lawyer wearing any sort of statement or protest piece into the courtroom. a lawyer is supposed to be representing my interests, and pissing off the judge is not the way to do that

...Why didn’t she just take off the pin ? She was there on behalf of a client, right?

“Judge Wants At Least 37 Non-Political Pieces of Flair Per Attorney, 11 of Which Must Support the Iggles”

My dick is like a can of bud light: Supremely disappointing. :(

Shudder.

I mighta gone with “root of the story”....

A dentist telling her to go see another dentist? This sounds like we need to drill down deeper to get to the real tooth of this story.