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Tuesday was sure a week of Mondays over here. Sympathies.
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Quiet New Englander, still ill-suited to this format but loving it anyway. Scale modeling, wargaming, history, overly complex PC gaming, jeremiads.
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Slarnos
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Tuesday was sure a week of Mondays over here. Sympathies.
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Thought it started as a Star Trek thing in the 70s?
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Old fountain pens tragically do this too. Tempus Edax Rerum.
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You fight the battle where it is. This is 101 stuff, really.
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Least it's not Hardee's.
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I was lucky enough to see it in a theater. Fantastic experience.
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Ordered the Chesterton's Fence combo meal like he thought he invented it.
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Ironically, the tech behind webrings still works just fine.
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Feels more aspirational than instructive on the part of the artist.
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Factory second mannequin.
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First encountered this at the climactic moment of an absolutely wild adaptation of The Bacchae and it stuck with me.
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Catching the career retrospective at MoMA a while back was paradigm-shifting.
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It's Hannibal bringing elephants over the alps. It's Sherman marching to the sea. It's a MIRV. Every beef from now to eternity is going to happen with the knowledge that you can do THIS.
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Less is a Bore
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Extra crunch? No surprise 'Cause our garnish has eight eyes. Look out! There goes the spider-flan! No, really. That one was underdone.
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Stopped clocks and all that.
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I mean, I'm apparently on something called "All Morons Great and Small" built by someone I blocked for being a dumbass. But that's more pathetic than hurtful.
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I'll take them for an alarmingly high fever, but by that point you should be talking to a medical professional anyway.
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I don't know if he was drunk at the time but my great-great-uncle Carlyle actually managed it. My folks still have a table his "pet" raccoon chewed on.
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And 1984 was at least a landslide. 2016 was the coin landing on it's edge, and entirely too many people decided it had been inevitable.
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2016 brainworms are the new 1984 brainworms, and we need to stomp them out.
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"Is it art" is a boring question. Of course it's art. "Is it good/effective art?" and "what is it saying?" are the starting points.
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A lesser known issue with US gerontocracy is that everyone even slightly left of center has those Reagan '84 brainworms and thinks winning is impossible.
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Limpa Biscuit (two for one!)
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Can't spell Logan Paul without multiple Ls.
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You're going to need that 12v center negative power brick Any Day Now (tm).
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The answer is "enough to get sausages, beers, and ice cream in a helmet shaped novelty bowl," and this is why it's the best sport.
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Remember Sherman and Grant at Shiloh: "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."
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Probably everyone starting to run a year before the primary. It's absurd.
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Neither of these men has been officially nominated yet. It's farce.
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Evocative. I'm having lab training flashbacks.
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Key points being precise and direct. Some people just want to make a noisy mess.
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New theory: a contributing cause to the eruption of Vesuvius was Theophilus' complete lack of chill.
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My dad was this clown's (Turley's) RA in 79-80. He was a tool back then too.
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The very first assignment I had in college was contrasting Hobbes' and Rousseau's views on the human being in a state of nature. Decades later it is still a framework I return to, and my answer to which model is the more accurate has changed and will no doubt keep changing.
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First step of the training is fixing the training
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I'm not going to pretend that I wasn't awake for 72 hours straight after, or that bad things didn't happen, but there's a difference between accepting that sometimes the awful long shot happens and thinking these clowns are evil masterminds.
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People need to learn to take the W.
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With the holy trinity of rum, sugar, and lime I might just make it.
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My condolences.
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Dare I ask about the heat index?
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All it's missing is the stickers applied crooked along the side and an acid green plastic recoilless rifle on the back.
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Nothing is true! Everything is permissible! Buy on the margin!
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Call me old fashioned, but I see someone choose to call themself "Doctor Disrespect" and am immediately resolved that they should not be given the benefit of the doubt at any time.
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Fortunately for you, Barbara Tuchman wrote "The Guns of August" over 50 years ago. Just needs a new cover.
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Don't count out the LotR-fuelled trend towards being Too Fucking Long from the 2000s!
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"Being kind to each other and forming communities is an easy thing for babies" is one hell of a take in 2024.
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Like the old saying about wrestling a pig: you'll just get dirty and the pig will enjoy it.
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Crawling out of the warm, Devonian seas was a mistake.
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