"And yet winning an Oscar is pretty much a guarantee you will be leading a franchise the second you're off that red carpet if you're white."
Please, please, please tell me I've been missing a Meryl Streep action franchise!

They also have one of their two synagogues in a city called "Whitefish".

What the f___ are you talking about? She converted when she married Cynthia Dude! You know this!
(Yeah, I'm a bit late to the party)

Kind of a "wearing my comfortable loafers on old carpet and touched a doorknob" shocked. I mean, in retrospect it was obvious.

That's some Veritas you laid down!

Actually we're on the cusp of death and have to make a tough choice if we have the strength to go on living.

Just wanted to second your appreciation of "You Fit Into Me". Not the biggest Atwood fan out there, but damn if she didn't stick the landing on that one.

I'm just going to point out that's not in the Bible. It's commonly associated with the story of Onan "spilling his seed" but the whole point of that story is that Onan was supposed to be knocking up his sister in law because that's the way they rolled back when.

This is just going to bug me: Why is in underlined in the first phrase, but was in the second?

I honestly don't think I would recognize Beaumont in any context where he wasn't using language. Although I did check and Wikipedia has a picture of him it's nothing as famous as the Droeshout picture.

THAT would be trippy.

Having been the father of a child, you get invested in breastfeeding. And you get invested in seeing what breastfeeding does to the two people you care most about in the world. So it makes sense to me.

Apparently there's a large catalog of peacocking Nickelback that I have not heard. I am very okay with this.

I was being a little facetious with my "never met a Chinese person" bit. I'm sure you met Chinese people even outside of your ESL based exploits :p.

Clearly you don't know many Chinese people. The idea of discrete languages is less a rigorous scientific concept than a political one, or as Max Weinreich famously had it, "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy."

Jokes about peanut butter, on the other hand, tend to be leaden.

Chinese would like a word with you.

It's just German for "Rush the"

Remember that V and U used to be the same letter, so AV = AU! *Dramatic lightening*

In my family Crow's "I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid… and I went ahead anyway." is probably the most quoted line that's not from The Big Lebowski… and maybe the Simpsons.