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silly billy
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We go on long camping/boating trips with a large group every year, and around day five, gallon ziplocs basically become prison cigarettes
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We may be approaching a "so long, and thanks for all the parking lot Cheetos" moment
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I've thought about this a lot and I think it's because Brad Bird left the animation staff in 1996 to make The Iron Giant
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One can track the decline of society to the abandonment of widespread battledore usage
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This is like when George Lucas changed the name from "Star War" to "Star Wars" when the special editions were released in the late 90s, and we all basically Mandela effected ourselves into thinking it was plural the whole time
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There's an Eddie Murphy joke about how two men talking will remember a specific fart from 20 years ago, and I think this is very adjacent to "remember that third baseman with the crazy swing from 2002"
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"embrittlement" seems a bit on the nose
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Stick it out, season 2 is way better
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Same ballpark but less grim: The Coen Brothers said that Sam Elliott's scenes in The Big Lebowski were easy to edit because his mustache covered up his lips moving.
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Hahaha a simple bar only 30 living humans on Earth can pass
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I've thought a lot about this and I think all the Riker residues would be resorbed into the energy matrix. But agreed, better safe than sorry.
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It's a chestnut that power corrupts but less has been said about how power makes one tedious and truly pathetic
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine
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Embrace the invisible hand, my metamorphic friend
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Ah yes, the Seymour Skinner box
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You think the people on the asteroid are like aw shit the earth might hit us
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I had a similar claim on the fourth Thor movie being called "Thour" but they somehow both never contacted me and used a different title?
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I've been brainstorming this concept for years and this completely crushes all my best ideas
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I read somewhere that early EDM used a 120bpm tempo because it approximates the fetal heart rate, but I can't remember the reference. Maybe Cyberia by Rushkoff?
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that light from below... he brought the orb back?
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They should have retired this metaphor the minute somebody invented the "carrot dangling on a string tied to a stick in front of the donkey" joke, which makes the whole thing completely confusing.
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He forgot to ask Grok:
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asked my cousin (lawyer) and he says you legally have to drive them to their next three gigs
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We had one in the house when I was a kid, but weirdly we did not have the tape. I think my parents ran out before I was born. I literally never saw it make a single label. Oddly this made the device even more mystical to me.
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I saw you with Alexa and that naked dude
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"and when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his fivehead"
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Twice zero club! I think I did get a 9 once.
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They won't stop calling me F'artagnan
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"Closer than that, Walter."
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Your driver has ordered a pizza from Domino's. Colton is putting your driver's pizza in the oven.