I'm sorry; I miscommunicated on my way to that silly pun. I teach college too (not English) and have never left the Northeast. We use "possum" here but permit "opossum" without it sounding stuck up. But the basic facts remain here as there: Correcting a speaker's choice of casual register is indeed pedantic (and…

Well, from the foreign policy sounds of that cake, it would appear that Hillary is hiding in it. So yes, I think he came about eight years too late with that job offer.

Ouch! The A.V. Club must be the only place on the Internet where a Trump piece sets off its nastiest and most heated discussions when it veers into the topic of childhood desserts.

I hate to take even a fictitious Trump's side on anything, but fair is fair. Citrus and egg whites are fine baking ingredients, but fuck carrot cake. And fuck it twice if it's got that nasty-ass greasy cheese frosting they always put on it. (I love cheesecake btw.) Carrot cake is the candy corn of cakes; you don't…

Just because a tweet somehow pertains to an NPS property does not automatically make it appropriate material for official retweeting. Neither are you given carte blanche license just because something "could impact your work." I don't know what you mean by "personal," or what you think I mean, but official government…

It was a completely inappropriate tweet. The person in charge of a medium of official Federal government communication should not be using the platform to express his personal political beliefs, as this retweet was clearly doing. Anyone who thinks the Obama White House would not have made a very quick, none too…

It should be comic sans! Then someone would be all, "fuck comic sans," and you'd be all, "hell-o-o…"

I hope to live long enough to see some old GenZer go, yeah, my nutso parents took me as just this little kid to see Simple Plan and Bowling for Soup.

I always hated the phrase "dead presidents." Two of them are not presidents! Now I just learned to love it for sounding kind of badass.

Haha, you found out the joke's on you! I myself miss Internet sarcasm so much I wish I had been clever enough to render myself immune to being called out by calling myself "Mr. Literal."

Your students think they're clever because they remember the "o" in "opossum"? Whatever do you teach? No 'ffense.

Sir, it is you who are the philistine. If you knew the first thing about Beckett (as you would had you received the most minimal education) you would know that his personal timeline differs from that of our historical dates based on whatever "leaps" he happened to have made over the course of his life.

We have been discussing the matter of both possums, passim.

Quit playin'!

I find it utterly baffling that not a single business textbook publisher has asked Jason Alexander to narrate.

Yeah, we placentals are generally way the fuck tougher. Aussies only have native rats and bats, and the ones we introduced (like introduced species of all classes) have been kicking the natives' asses ever since. (Not that some natives, like kangaroos, haven't been thriving.) When you have an isolated population like…

Don't blame poor Mr. Cook! Possums are native to the Americas, and they came to North America from their native South America three million years ago during the "Great American Interchange" (when Panama emerged from the sea). Marsupials are not inherently native to Australia; it's just that they are an "older" sort of…

Their eyes glow in the dark. That is some shit right there.

"You like-a the juice?"

They might. As a New Yorker I had never watched The Grinder anyway, assuming it was just an inferior Boston-based sequel to Heroes.