As Weird Al Yankovic wrote 37 years ago, “I know that I’ll be coming back some day/ I’ll be playing this part ‘til I’m old and grey/ The long-term contract I had to sign/ says I’ll be making these movies ‘til the end of time/ with my Yoda”

I did similar. I wanted to pay cash but the negotiated price had a $2000 manufacturer incentive involved that required financing. I scoured every word of the contract for red flags such as prepayment penalties and the like, and the finance guy got quite agitated. He was hurrying me along until I threatened to call off…

Irridentist. Simulacrum. You guys are killing me with the big words tonight. This was not how I expected to spend my evening.

What’s the streaming bandwidth like up there? Enough for 4K or nah? Gotta figure they’ve got pretty solid connections to satellites without that pesky atmosphere in the way.

First episode of The Deuce (which was 84 minutes, basically feature-length) as well as the season finale.

But it got a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes!

To be fair, many of us suck ass as well, but in a thoughtful way.

The fact that he was left out of Best Screenplay is even more of an inexplicable snub!

Hebrew and Arabic share many similarities, both being Semitic languages. The biggest ones would be extensive shared vocabulary, much of the alphabet, right-to-left writing, and differing letter glyphs depending on their position in a word.
It’s not exactly trivial to go from one to the other, but having good knowledge…

Stuff like this would make me rage-quit learning English if I was not a native speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)

OK, there it is. I wish it were more open but I respect her decision to use code, of course. I’m not sure what Deadspin’s obligation is to discuss this, as other folks are suggesting, though.

The only thing I can find is this cache from Google, which Jason Whitlock claims is a reference to Greg, but I’m not sure I believe him. The tweet was deleted. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IyYE0qphS-gJ:https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/928969001169969153+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Was the only like your mother?

Don’t worry. It’s a lot closer to 1/6th than 1/5th.

Will you be splicing Burneko from foodspin?

I had a really hard time understanding this headline until I realized “Scout” was a noun and “Journeys” was a verb. Kept reading it the opposite way.

Yes, this is the correct take. A blog is the collection of posts (weblog). A blog post is a blog post.

Things I would like to add to the discussion.

Only if you go to the ground intentionally and obviously, such as a QB slide. Here Hilton just leaped to avoid contact and fell.