This happens sometimes in my (former) job if you get, say, a $500 bonus for some nice piece of work; the extra money is informally called “grossing up”, but it’s enough to cover the taxes on $500 in your bracket.

Given the subject, I love the dup posting on this one.

The first shot says “1992: Orlando-Adjacent”.

“[Quincy Tyler Bernstein] did guest spots and background roles for the next twenty years, before landing the dual role of Tameika Robinson and Tameika Washington on Starz’s Power.”

“ We have no idea if those review were paid, but when someone comes across as 100% and doesn’t have user reviews, you can pretty much be assured they were. “

Especially when people complain how a team does against the spread. The spread is the guess of how the game’s going to go (actually of how the betting will go but whatever). If a team doesn’t beat the spread, they didn’t fail, you just guessed wrong.

I (Pats fan) saw it, will not forget it, but didn’t know it was now called that.

I’ve seen one and I’m still not sure which one.  I think the Mila Kunis one?

It happens a lot, but I’m always sort of amazed when someone who is in the top fraction of 1% of humanity, appearancewise, gets voiceover work.  I mean, it seems like it must be economically wasteful.

[Yes, I’m three months behind..]

Once, on Amazon’s TV app (as in, on consoles and Roku etc as opposed to a browser) I searched for something and it showed as available on an “imdb channel” on Amazon, as if it were an add-on like HBO etc, but the channel was free.  I think that program had commercials.  ...oh, Amazon owns imdb.  Well, ok then.

B: yeah, recently it’s been 9 or 10 episodes before Christmas.

It became a standard solution to that problem pretty quickly; Laverne and Shirley did it too.

Not relevant really, but..I noticed the other day that Patrick Warburton has a lot of Wayne’s cadence, but in a lower register.

Why? It’s not like you’re gonna miss.

I once read a claim that the Best Original Screenplay award is really Best Indie Film.

Well, if I’m wrong, I’m wrong. (Although it’s still like some kind of CGI anti-illusion...but facts is facts.)

It could not possibly be more obvious that not all of these people were together at the same time.

This correctly describes meteorological seasons.

My childhood dog once ate all the liverwurst from around a pill we’d given him, then dumped the pill on the floor and looked at me like “k, I cleaned it off for ya”.