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Raconteur, triathlete, strategist. Lived 15 years in Las Vegas after the lawyer said he could get me 10. I make hot sauce; try some at http://prairiefireprovisions.com
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It's the one that got cut from Blazing Saddles.
"Is it twue you people are...gifted?"
(zipper noise)
"Oh, it's twue, it's twue!"
The line that was cut was "Excuse me, Miss, but you're sucking on my elbow."
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Well I had a million dollars but I, I had to give it to Cuomo because otherwise he would have thought I didn't like him and I didn't want to be on his bad side, see, but I was really with you people all along...
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And for much darker reasons.
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Imagine being able to run on a controversial platform of "I actually like the city I want to be in charge of"
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And actually had a role in the first Trump administration? I know, in the 21st century and everything, right?
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I've got to imagine the person saying this contorting their face in twisted rage and flinging a half-eaten crumpet across the room
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Another prophecy foretold
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I'd believe a rocket built by the people who made the Toyota pickup truck is the interstellar equivalent of making the plane out of the material they use for the black box
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I went back and forth about whether to switch it out during Pride like I've done the past several years, given today's birthday parade. But like you said, I'll be damned if I'm going to cede patriotism to these people. It was noted federal employee John Prine who explained the decal's limitations.
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"Pssst!"
(guy in trenchcoat and fedora surreptitiously displays bottle of Tropicana)
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When all this broke I heard him get tagged as Nemo Musk and my brain has now forgotten his actual name as a result
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ladies and gentlemen, the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
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If he's not going to thank us for our attention to this matter, what are we even doing here
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Right here is second best, baby
Not so nearly tough a test...
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(frantically runs to a brick and mortar library in the hopes of finding microfiche of the @chicagoreader.com , because this can't be left to the whims of digital ephemera - I need tangible proof Frankie Knuckles existed)
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A quote that popped up with George Wendt's passing was that Cheers was one of the last sitcoms whose writers didn't spend their time exclusively watching television. Subsequently, The Simpsons moved from writers raised on TV to writers raised on old Simpsons episodes. AI is a similar ouroboros
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I just got my master's right before turning 50. It was galling to be graded on my interactions with people who clearly weren't people (or were only people some of the time, like below). I hope that my degree and institution aren't dismissed as the product of an era of wholesale tech based deception
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Pokey never realized train cars smell like that
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The Black Stallion
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I've always assumed she was just out of frame when this photo was taken
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Mine is petty and whiny and do-gooderish but I think we do the world a disservice when we use "on acid", "on steroids", "on meth", "on any kind of substance that has consequences and may not work exactly like your shorthand indicates and maybe you should describe it differently"
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Drunk? Hell, Al Davis would have gotten drunk with Hunter. Jim Irsay's team got name-checked in a song Hunter wrote on a Warren Zevon album and probably did enough substances at Woody Creek to fell a rhinoceros
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you can attempt to make this exact same argument to authorities in a different context and get yourself tased in the neck
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I recall conversations with less informed voters who said President Biden wasn't turning the big dial on his desk that controlled prices in the right direction. When I explained that wasn't how it worked and inflation was worldwide they said they didn't care about those places, they cared about here
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fun fact: grubhub was for prospectors only, specializing exclusively in vittles, before it went all techno and commercial
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Lucky for us, the solution of "give us even more money" is still going to work like a charm
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Do they want to call it the Kobe Bryant Express? He was a well regarded Olympian.
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I was at brunch at Cliff House in SF with my girlfriend pre-pandemic and struck up a conversation with a gay man about our age (early 50s) and he'd lived through all of it. We talked about gratitude and survivor's guilt and the beauty of moments like the one we were sharing. I think about him a lot.
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I know football and I'm thinking it's fucking MAY and that means BASEBALL and it just got done being FREEZING outside and you watch football in conditions that demand a CONCEALED FLASK so you don't have to PISS YOURSELF FOR THE MOMENTARY WARMTH and we can avoid caring about this until LABOR DAY
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I'm always impressed that the texts come from international numbers. I mean, our state seldom passes up a chance to employ a duly registered member of the electorate.
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I can't believe a man of such humility would behave this way bsky.app/profile/quop...
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There's a Qatari in front of a 747 cabin mockup right now frantically copy and pasting a set of Golden Arches into an AutoCAD rendering
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I don't want to read the article because I don't want to chance this whole story randomly popping into my head at stoplights, but was he doing this upon request or was he, like, bored at an airport gate and looking at someone across from him?
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And will they have started their Administration role yet or still waiting for someone else to get turfed to another position?
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Hell, why stop there? Go to 2010 and tell it to the people who were protesting the "Ground Zero mosque" and then tell them the President in question is a Republican
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That poster in the background is now good for three novenas
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That's giardiniera you apostate