No, please.

"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."

Well, he should know his proper place.

Yeah - may I be spared from having relatives like that (much less becoming some version of that woman myself).

Well, you can drop the "asshole" of course, but the redundancy sounds nice, like in "cease and desist" and stuff like that.

There is something about the Flintstones coming in as well - a dark, gritty reboot that finds Bedrock as the capital of ancient Gilead.

That sounds right, but Twitter has managed to unearth the very shortsightedly stupid in some very intelligent and usually carefully spoken people.

As everyone here is now asking: why was it deleted later, then?

We must agree to differ.

You think this week made some missteps, eh?

I forget.

I was relieved when I found out about LB's obsessive hatred for wind-generated power - until then I'd thought her the ultimately clear-headed human on earth.

I'm of the last generation who got to send and receive real, hand-delivered telegrams - a thing I am (obviously) tickled about.

Pithy, but dirty.

I'll go to the REAL Hell, but I won't go to Texas - or any fucking "red state."

"I can't lie to you about your chances, but… you have my sympathies."

But IS HE????

" The AVC is to be closed IMMEDIATELY!"

I thought it was that trucker movie with Kris Kristofferson, where his CB "handle" is "Rubber Duck."

John Yaya?