I don't remember the name, but a MtG illustrator once said something like, "If you're doing art and it looks ugly to you, that just means you aren't finished yet. The trick is to keep going until it stops looking ugly, and then stop before you make it ugly again."

As they say, some people dress up as skeletons on Halloween. The rest of the year, all the skeletons are dressed up as us.

Except you aren't chair of the committee with direct oversight of the FCC, so you can't actually do anything about it yourself. Ted could, but he has not done a thing other than making that statement.

I'll never actually defend the guy, but President Carter died during Biden's term, and flags were flown at half staff for 30 days.

Marylanders will lust after you. Many would call that a bad thing, but not all.

You can. But don't picture that as a circle that stays over the 5-degree latitude. It would be tilted at 5 degrees, and would waver between 5 degrees North and 5 degrees South, crossing the Equator twice each day. But it would stay over the same longitude while it does that, if it is at geo-sync.

I remember going to see that at the drive-in, when it first came out. I was probably 7 or 8. Man, my whole family laughed ourselves half to death.

Some didn't make it out of the 1940s.

In comics, the mullet can work for many young men. In real life, young Richard Dean Anderson is the only person to truly look good in a mullet.

"Shave the eagle" sounds euphemistic, somehow. What this behemoth is ashamed of, forcing him into euphemism, makes me worry.

I hope you have every success in protecting your country from the BS coming from mine.
But we all know that Canada geese do not respect the border. At all.

Amateur Hookers. (I crochet.)

The German guy.

He not only knew he was susceptible to its corruption, but he was wearing Narya, one of the Elven rings. It would probably have been ruined by too close contact with The One.

First lyrics: Probably 'Henry the Eighth' by Herman's Hermits. Mom says my brother and I nearly drove the whole house insane with it. This was probably prior to my third birthday.
First purchase: 8-track tape of Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.

Isaac Asimov wrote that in early SF, all robot stories were either *robot as menace* or *robot as pathos*. He created his 3-laws robot stories to create another type, where robots were simply serving a purpose and at worst they sometimes mystify humans. I hope we get that before full sentience.