You spell my name “Powerthirteen,” not “no one ever.”

TAKE MY MONEY

Perhaps we can train Cheddar to retrieve him, as if he were a plaque.

Plus by the sounds of it if someone tried to kidnap John, John’s wife and/or dog would tear them to pieces.

WOT RHYMES WITH “DRINK”?

Terry hates network tv.

Sounds like being joked about by a former student really threw him off his rhythm.

Do you... have something against legendary concert promoter Bill Graham?

This is what happens when the public schools stop teaching proper hyphenation.

*GRRM takes notes frantically*

I work with higher ed all day. Community college people are often great, or at least well-intentioned. University people are gasbags.

Back in the day this joke would have gotten so. Many. Upvotes.

“Profit” is just a definitional construct, as anyone with three months of basic accounting can teach you. The important numbers are the sophisticated ones this article thinks are “too complicated” like EBITDA.

Large companies are being bought because while they may be unprofitable overall and have bad prospects, they usually have a bunch of valuable assets like trademarks with name recognition, or interesting intellectual property assets, or smaller companies that the larger company had bought at some point. Those are the…

Generally speaking, the smaller LBOs can work out ok. Even if the business that was bought doesn’t actually become independent again, they can reach a reasonable equilibrium while being owned by a PEG. But the big ones are a sure sign that a company’s going to get bled dry and sold for parts.

Half the characters on every show. That’s right, Young Sheldon is going to some dark places this week.

Man, Pet Sematary the book fucked me right up. The movie... less so.

I remember it being a “if you pull the knife out you die” thing, meaning “don’t fight, go to a hospital.”

Well, that’s a direct quote from one of Cicero’s Catiline orations, so it’s the definition of “good Latin.”