Due to a bad cell phone connection, Murray misheard “Quibi” as “Coen” and said yes before fully realizing what it was.

If any streaming startup wants to revive the version of The Tick that Amazon canceled, I will give them my money.

Their whole career seems like a series of quick decisions. According to them, they picked the original name after they took band pictures in front of an antebellum mansion. Like, they’re already taking group shots before having a name? Then they were like, “oh shit, we spaced on picking a name. Quick, what’s…

Look, Google is far more complicated than people think. It’s not like the good old days when you could just Bing or Ask Jeeves.

What if it had turned out to be Canadian slang for analingus?  What if it was an Arizona street drug that had just killed four school children?  How do you not goddam check first?

My favorite was a shoe company who had a new athletic shoe for women. Wanting to follow Nike, they had their guys look into other mythical names that had not been registered.

Lady whitey works

To chime in with othes: I estimate at least 50% of human history is people not thinking all the way around a thing before they acted.  Frick, check out Australia’s record of trying to get rid of pests, as an example.  Or, y’know, watch 87 % of YouTube’s “Ow, my balls!” videos

Three Non-Blondes

Pre-internet our idiocies didn’t immediately get broadcast around the world. That doesn’t mean we weren’t doing idiotic things.

Lady Antivirus?

The band formerly known as Lady Antebellum has announced that, in light of this development, they have decided to change their name again. They will make a portmanteau of their original name, taking the “La” from “Lady” and “Bell” from “Antebellum”, adding an e on the end (in reference to “southern belle”), resulting…

Lady Ante-Meridian! They only perform in the morning!

Just cut to the fucking chase and go with Three Nondescript White People.

Ok Boomer

They probably ought to switch to Lady Antediluvian and focus on Vampire: The Masquerade filk music.

I think you’re memory have gotten tinged with nostalgia. People have been doing dumb peopley things like this since there have been people.

The USSR was a Third World country with a First World army. It looks like we copied their model.

Bizarre time shifts follow Wonder Woman. The Lynda Carter TV series abruptly changed eras too.

All those WW84-branded bags of Doritos that have been on the shelf for months have been bumming me out.