At first I thought that said a “walking choking lizard” and I immediately thought, well that’s a good description. I’m not sure if the lizard is doing the choking or being choked but I think the latter.
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How CUTE is this backpack??
a clue that has set the crossword puzzle community off on a bit of an outrage tornado
I’ve started doing the NYT crossword every day at work and it makes me feel so white.
I only do them on airplanes.
The day is young.
I literally only do them when I am on vacation. Like, obsessively when I am on vacation, and never any other time.
I do say “Men!” on occassion but not as much as I say “White people.” Dollars to donuts the idiot who wrote that clue was a white dude.
Wtf, Paper of Record? Not even our crossword puzzles are safe from white patriarchal hegemony?
Alternative clue thread:
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Speaking of aliens, gov’t conspiracies, etc., I once worked, briefly, with a guy whose other job was as David Duchovny’s stand-in on The X-Files. When I first got to the job site, I thought “Huh. That guy looks a lot like David Duchovny.” Turned out he got paid to look like David Duchovny (though not paid quite enough…
This will never be more depressing than the time potato stood in for muffins and nobody noticed its time in the spotlight:
On the other hand, I come from a very white family that maintained the standard, pernicious Cherokee princess myth, and when my brother got tested we found out our family had more Neanderthal blood in us than anything else besides white folks. So, not everyone has a lengthy history of hidden white-passing ancestors,…
DID SOMEONE SAY BREAKFAST SANDWICH?
I eat cereal dry with a glass of milk on the side. I like to eat at my own pace, thank you very much. That cereal isn’t the boss of me.