Maybe we have different understandings of “hard roll.” In my neighborhood, “hard roll” means “kaiser roll” or “bolillo.”

Hard roll = bread

“There is no frigate like a book!”

Children and disabled adults.

Thank you for the strategy. It is now mine.

YAY for a kid-helping physicist!

Portland (the real one in Maine) has way better bait than the Portland in Oregon.

I have the same “sometimes-gray, sometimes-not-gray” problem, so I know you are right!

I also live in Chicago, but unlike you, I am familiar with the use of hyperbole in rhetoric.

If you live in Chicago and you don’t order delivery during snowstorms, you’d only be able to order out from May through September. So yeah, no.

Everyone in Chicago lives a couple of blocks away from a really shifty Chinese joint.

I successfully googled “pub golf,” but all I get for “TVR” is some kind of British boutique sports car maker.

It’s the only thing in that story I was able to visualize. I had to google everything else. (Brazzers? Max Hardcore?) And thanks, now my browser probably thinks I am some kind of pervert.

No.

I think you’re correct — the “ha ha ha” sound is being interpreted by some as “wtf.”

Judge for yourself (begins at :24). Mickey D’s says the toy is programmed to speak three Minionese (nonsense) phrases: “ha ha ha,” “eh eh,” and “para la bukay.”

That Lolcat is still everything. Everything.

My. God.

There is no missing comma. I accuse you of attempted comma abuse.

One thousand times yes. Pretending that someone is younger than they are is transparently condescending swill. It is offensive, and usually sexist. Stop it, immediately. If you pull that nonsense on me, I will call you on it. Unmercifully.