How few are going to recognize that song.

Maybe. In some of the videos, she’s got quite a set of pipes and is able to shout over the crowd and even over some bass-y music in one clip, so it must roll off the tongue easily.

Over the years I’ve thought much about this kind of condition(ing) in people.

Yeah, I’m okay with this. The idea that everyone should be allowed to have a support animal, which is a great idea!, had been fucking ruined by all the asshats that brought untrained critters with them and fucking hooted and howled if anyone questioned the “service animal” in any way. People are selfish, stupid, and…

I mooned you! LOL!

Or maybe the Dyson sphere was destroyed in a war with folks form the neighbouring star

One of my favorite Woodstock stories is how the Guess Who turned down an invitation because they were busy at work on an album—which turned out to be American Woman, so not a bad sacrifice.

Agreed. I may have only been 15, but it was a ton of fun, and it made me a Nine Inch Nails fan for life!

I was just about to post the same thing. Fascinating. 

Depends on what the meaning of “meaning” is. Good call.

There was a fair bit of meaningless rain in that interval.

No “meaningful” amount doesn’t mean “zero”. The desert as a whole averages about half an inch of rainfall per year, and even the driest areas get a couple millimeters per year.

In my experience it’s not quite that bad, at least while you’re actually doing the fieldwork. It’s what happens as soon as you’ve submitted your report and are no longer around to see what’s happening. I remember coming back to one of my study sites - where we’d done 4 years’ work on a rare salamander population,…

My wife has spoken harshly to me about my giant thunderclaps at dawn. No appreciation of paleontology whatsoever.

Of course, the bark shoes were what you’d boil into a tea for lunch, so that walk back was always just a little bit tougher, too.

And get off my lawn... !

I want your quark...., quark oh ah oh ah QUARK!!!

I mean, for one thing, who would believe him? And two: you don’t generally make public statements where you flat-out say that you’re going to lie about something, especially something very specific like that.

Ah yes, the good old Sanguinette Vibrella.

How do tense?