Calling himself “the Florida Joker” and the tattoo of the literal word “Joker” on his forehead surely will factor into the question.

Perhaps, but then by the same token Rockstar was inspired by him.

If this story could only have taken place a little ways north of there, in the Viagra Triangle, how much more fantastic would it have been!

“You ain’t getting a job at Home Depot with that face.”

I had a semi-similar one about thirty years ago. One friend, upon leaving a party, decided to demonstrate how cool his Mustang (I think; probably) was by peeling out like crazy, spinning the tires for a good 10-15 seconds of racket and smoke before actually driving away. This was on a quiet suburban residential…

“I was pretty surprised when they pulled me over since most people on NY Ave are going 20 over the limit and weaving in and out of lanes.”

Well sure, those ones are harder to catch up to!

Yeah, I’ve heard it said (probably here) that “if the car doesn’t have a crumple zone, you’re the crumple zone.”  Cybertruck seems designed to try to prove that.

Steve Buscemi Jesus is working through some stuff, alright?

Prince Florian from Super Mario Wonder.  Little caterpillar guy who lives in your hat and gives you extra powers as needed.  Immediate legend.

Yeah, the Top Chef as well as the George Washington skits go immediately into the pantheon.

His turn as the elderly oil baron (or whatever) visiting his son (Pete Davidson’s) class for Career Day is legitimately among my all-time favorites for the show.

Flashing back to the opening screen of that movie in early 2017 was a blast, because it was a reasonably apt description of the state of things, down to stating that it took place in 2017,  just as we here in the real world also had a game show host assume supreme executive power.

“but it’s a decent aircraft that takes flak for being a new design that’s still working out some bugs.”

Weren’t the first flight tests in 1989?  How long are we going to give it?

And that’s... bad?

“For instance, the Quincy High School football team in Plumas County has to play the rival team from Etna High School in Siskiyou County.”

Not sure about the “has to” there.

If Jerry Falwell denounces you, you’re doing something very very right.

“adding to the sense that this is a wild, absurd reflection of our own world”

Much like Florida.

Yeah, when I was growing up, my mom was huge into healthy food and cooking, so we had a lot of tofu but it wasn’t treated the way it should have been, so I didn’t think much of it.  (Not my mom’s fault; she’s a very good cook, just didn’t quite click back then on how to do tofu right.)  Later on in life I learned how…

Honestly, I was very disappointed to learn it wasn’t the Ridley Scott version.

And, to provide a counterpoint, thank you for that.