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Lothar of the Chill People
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Benioff was named one of People’s 50 Most Eligible Bachelors in 2001, a few months after publishing his first novel (which was his thesis for his 2nd Master’s degree). They never mention that his father was rich and powerful, just that his parents’ relationship is great. This is how they describe a guy who got his

“We don’t know why he trusted us with his life’s work,”

Of the 50 versions of this joke in this comment session, this one was the best. Excellent structure!

I never noticed the monumental screwup in that Cheers episode. At 3:13 before Cliff gives his answer, there is a shot of Cliff with $22,000 and his screen clearly says “Who are 3 people who’ve never been in my kitchen.” In the shot Cliff is just staring forward while Trebek speaks off screen, so there was no reason to

McNair said “inmates running the prison.” If he had said “asylum” that would have been one-tenth as racist as well as being a phrase that actual people say.

You gotta take progress however it comes. Prison sentencing reform is good even if it is done for racist reasons. As long as it isn’t applied in a white-person-only manner, I’ll take it (to some extent, it inevitably will be). The advancement of Gay Rights is 80% because homophobes had gay children and the other 20%

Luis himself suggested some infractions be converted to indirect free kicks so they wouldn’t be near-certain goals, and only having PKs for true cases of denying a goal scoring opportunity. Having an intermediate type of punishment does two things: Calling a foul doesn’t affect the game quite as much, and because of

I liked his joke when asked if he was potentially the Love Child of Frank Sinatra:

They used to fantasize they were going to use those assault rifles to protect their families against the Rooskies or Terr’ists, then against the Drug-Crazed Criminals (who only ‘coincidentally’ seemed to be of a melanin-infused persuasion), now they openly fantasize about shooting Government Officials (deep state ya

Though maybe I can think of another way in which the two teams are nearly indistinguishable on video. Damn corporate Red Bull teams.

The Penalty Box isn’t absolute. The rules board could make a foul outside the penalty box denying a 1-on-1 scoring opportunity result in a PK. I know of at least one exception to the Penalty Box rule. If a guy is fouled behind the endline, off the field, near the goal, it is treated as if it is in the box and gets a PK

I forget, is this also a PK? If not it might be the smart move. If it is a PK, you are better off just letting the guy score. (though that early in the game, going a man down and effectively losing a substitution is probably worth more than one expected goal.)

I am thinking Irons’ Veidt was kidnapped by Dr. Manhattan and is kept under “house arrest,” probably on Mars in an artificial construct. That fits the evidence everyone is giving for Irons being Dr. Manhattan himself (the appearance of the building on Mars, the artificiality of his servant companions, the fact that

The way I usually hear her decision to marry Aristotle described is that he made her feel safe and protected. Which is a sweet and nice way of saying he ensconced her in money. He could pay for her to go anywhere anytime and pay for total isolation and for elite security details. I have great sympathy for her situation

Does that include the cost of fuel for the additional weight over the life of the device? I doubt that gets it to $10K.

Yeah, but under no circumstances should you read the comic. It is awful and stupid as well as homophobic, misogynistic and borderline racist.

Is Deshaun Watson problematic? Southern Baptists aren’t my favorites, but I don’t usually call them “problematic”, especially since black Baptists tend to avoid most of the worst impulses. Or is it because he once made Dabo Swinney very happy? I guess that IS problematic.

I like that your sentence was West German with bad grammar and some misspelled French thrown in to be pretentious. All languages are messed up versions of other languages.

I like that your sentence was West German with bad grammar and some misspelled French thrown in to be pretentious. All languages are messed up versions of other languages.

I read this story in an O. Henry collection.