Not the slightest doubt, he cheated. No one euphemises when it's "I forgot to take out the trash".

And he did it more than once. He just didn't get caught the other times.

"When helicopter, Fortunate Son" might be the closest he's gotten to a coherent thought in years.

Don't get worked up over writers doing it now. They're continuing a tradition that's older than our language. Just eat some popcorn and enjoy the show!

2. We know we'd probably actually need our brown pants if we were fighting intergalactic terrorists, held hostage, or negotiating the end of the zombie apocalypse.
But through our smart-mouthed hero/ine, we can vicariously live the esprit de l'escalier we all WISH we'd have in that situation.

1. It breaks up a serious situation, allowing the audience to take a breath and mentally relax a moment. We are supposed to be enjoying ourselves, after all!

Whenever I find a pair that actually works for me (twice in ever), I guard them like a dragon on his pile of gold.
For the rest ... I'm just proud of the fact that none have ever managed to fall into the sink in just the right way to go down the drain before I could grab them.

I'm detecting faint old-person notes of "stop saying I just had a college experimental phase"

Um.
Well then.
Unto the breach, dear friends, I guess.

So am I in the wrong time zone orrr

I put 'we survived' in the 2026 bingo 🤞

>> spends half a century working in real estate (supposedly successful)

>>> wants to start a major urban construction project in Feb/Mar for completion by July

The bankruptcies come further into focus...

Would love to speak to the editors who decided the only entries to require additional context are 2 of the most generally well-known properties in western media

Oh god no! One of them would be grossed out and hate it and refuse to watch ... the other it very truly might push them into full-blown body-focused OCD. (But I always boil first ... juuuust in case)

Correlation between "number of books read" and "how badly needed was the footnote" is getting worrying

bsky.app/profile/dhmo...

Well now I kind of want some spicy kim chi

The wildest part is that almost every complaint about this comes from a conservative man ........ but it's not a liberal phenomenon. *most* conservatives ALSO don't want to settle in with someone who hates everything they believe in!

We finally decided it was time to give up on our "sitting *through* the couch" situation, and Providence stepped in -- 3 days of online shopping later, the group text suddenly goes off "we're remodeling, does anyone want some furniture"

2 new-to-us (& MATCHING!!) couches, now in their 3rd rehoming