Toby Applegate
@tapplegate.bsky.social
Not jaded yet geography professor
Father of a juniors hockey player, an art historian, and a nurse.
Husband of a very, very talented wife.
Actively blocking fascists, “quote of the day” garbage, anime weirdos, engagement farmers, and time wasters.
Father of a juniors hockey player, an art historian, and a nurse.
Husband of a very, very talented wife.
Actively blocking fascists, “quote of the day” garbage, anime weirdos, engagement farmers, and time wasters.
Don’t get me wrong. The ChiliMac rules with an iron fist especially if you can get extra hot sauce off and tortillas off somebody, but feed that to sedentary Americans? Idiotic is too nice a word.
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Don’t get me wrong. The ChiliMac rules with an iron fist especially if you can get extra hot sauce off and tortillas off somebody, but feed that to sedentary Americans? Idiotic is too nice a word.
Yeah, high calorie combat rations for a large group of people who really don’t need high calorie combat rations.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yeah, high calorie combat rations for a large group of people who really don’t need high calorie combat rations.
He will condescendingly tell us an avuncular story over his reading glass anytime we want.
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
He will condescendingly tell us an avuncular story over his reading glass anytime we want.
She is funny as hell and that Gawker food blog was absolute genius.
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
She is funny as hell and that Gawker food blog was absolute genius.
The Democratic Party will always step on their tongues.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The Democratic Party will always step on their tongues.
Mine is White Man in the Hammersmith Palais:
If Adolph Hitler
Flew into today
they’d send a limousine
anyway
If Adolph Hitler
Flew into today
they’d send a limousine
anyway
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Mine is White Man in the Hammersmith Palais:
If Adolph Hitler
Flew into today
they’d send a limousine
anyway
If Adolph Hitler
Flew into today
they’d send a limousine
anyway
when they kick down your front door
how you gonna come?
with your hands on your head
or the trigger of your gun?
how you gonna come?
with your hands on your head
or the trigger of your gun?
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
when they kick down your front door
how you gonna come?
with your hands on your head
or the trigger of your gun?
how you gonna come?
with your hands on your head
or the trigger of your gun?
I enforce the Oxford comma with an iron fist in all student submitted papers. I have also banned semicolon use.
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I enforce the Oxford comma with an iron fist in all student submitted papers. I have also banned semicolon use.
My standard is how much the show emulates the “um, yeah. About them…” parts of my relatives. Often it is so spot on, I wonder if they didn’t actually know my grandfather or my uncle.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My standard is how much the show emulates the “um, yeah. About them…” parts of my relatives. Often it is so spot on, I wonder if they didn’t actually know my grandfather or my uncle.
$40k a year to rough up meth heads and kids standing on corners? I will believe that when I see it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
$40k a year to rough up meth heads and kids standing on corners? I will believe that when I see it.
Buck says that’s a fake.
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Buck says that’s a fake.
In the late 80s/early 90s it was considered a failure of purpose* for a fraternity to not have a Jimmy Buffett themed party. We bought a ton of sand and turned the common room in to a beach including an ocean (play pools).
*not that fraternities have any purpose other than organized crime
*not that fraternities have any purpose other than organized crime
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
In the late 80s/early 90s it was considered a failure of purpose* for a fraternity to not have a Jimmy Buffett themed party. We bought a ton of sand and turned the common room in to a beach including an ocean (play pools).
*not that fraternities have any purpose other than organized crime
*not that fraternities have any purpose other than organized crime
I was served this plonk at a friend’s house who had it gifted to him by his RWFiL. I didn’t know what it was as he gave it to me blindly. EGADS. Look, this is just another rub noses in it thing. Terrible wine with a terrible person’s name on it. Just criming…
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I was served this plonk at a friend’s house who had it gifted to him by his RWFiL. I didn’t know what it was as he gave it to me blindly. EGADS. Look, this is just another rub noses in it thing. Terrible wine with a terrible person’s name on it. Just criming…
Isn’t the women’s ball smaller or has that changed?
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Isn’t the women’s ball smaller or has that changed?
“We have chips in the wire! They are firing BMTs! Drop all you have on my position! Do you read me Bravo 2-9? BMTs! Drop it all!”
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“We have chips in the wire! They are firing BMTs! Drop all you have on my position! Do you read me Bravo 2-9? BMTs! Drop it all!”
This begs for film noir treatment.
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This begs for film noir treatment.
That’s a rye sense of humor you have.
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
That’s a rye sense of humor you have.
Highland County has 2200 people. Lancaster, Va on the Northern Neck has only two lane roads.
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Highland County has 2200 people. Lancaster, Va on the Northern Neck has only two lane roads.
Legend is that he is banned from the UMASS-Amherst campus.
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Legend is that he is banned from the UMASS-Amherst campus.
I am ok with both.
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I am ok with both.
There’s nothing quite like watching a team play really well except in on stat category.
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
There’s nothing quite like watching a team play really well except in on stat category.
Tensely explaining to a cornered guest that Jospehinism and Erastianism are share bases and there is clear justification because Joseph II was not personallycondemned for his separation of church and state and Erastianism holds that there is state power over the Church and serving the eucharist.
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tensely explaining to a cornered guest that Jospehinism and Erastianism are share bases and there is clear justification because Joseph II was not personallycondemned for his separation of church and state and Erastianism holds that there is state power over the Church and serving the eucharist.