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Where are you J. Fred Muggs?!

OK!

"Hello … Weiner"

(The Mooch is filmed before a horrified studio audience)

Well if the copyrights didn't expire so darned fast I'm sure Shakespeare would still be out there writing new plays!

(Fish in water hazard sprays him in the face)
Oh, a wiseguy, eh?

All I know is I got 3 days until retirement and … ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Speaking as someone who has been programmed, I was mildly surprised that the "techno-babble" isn't techno-babble at all! It actually displays insights into programming. Not the least of which is that watching someone program is boring.

To see Indian soldiers, look to the North Africa campaign, or Singapore. There were significant Indian units in those theaters. But Dunkirk? Not that I know of.

Damn. And I know which one you mean.

Hey, you can't call it "champagne" 'less it were made in a terlet in the Champagne region of France.

From the online comments I've seen, it's obvious there are plenty of Americans who have forgotten everything they ever learned in high school Civics class. It's obvious they don't understand how their own government works.

Some years ago, I lived in a … "modest, unassuming" … neighborhood, shall we say. I picked up the newspaper and read an article saying the city had banned the sale of malt liquor in glass bottles, and was astonished to soon notice I was cleaning up A LOT less broken glass from the street, sidewalk, and lawn around my

Here, I'm happy just to see people replacing the smashed guard rails.

"Assistant Crack Whore"

So, to Norwegians, they live in a "fatherland", not a "motherland"? I read something once about how most countries are "motherlands" but certain ones are "fatherlands", and what sort of subtle psychological difference that might make.

One of my first observations about western Europe was "this whole place is so much cleaner than back home". Apparently, Europeans don't simply toss their trash everywhere.

Better to reign in hell than to soft-serve in heaven

"In conclusion, linguistics is a land of contrast"
(obligatory Simpsons reference)

Does that mean the march into Kinjoslovakia is cancelled?