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If you'd told me 20 years ago that in 2025, a four-year-old named "X Æ A-Xii" would be a regular guest at the White House, I would have conceded that it sounds very futuristic.

Literally got an email advertising computer programming courses with the subject line "The Courses They Don’t Want You to Know About!"

The 2020s are now 51% over.

Pretty suspicious that most of the people gushing about the magic of books and reading are authors.

Late Groundhog Day, and the Ghost of Christmas Past still reaches out from the grave.

Fun fact: the demonym for Punxsutawney is "Punxsutawney Resident".

Do not doubt that God is merciful. Because he'll remember.

Nostalgic for when Long National Nightmares lasted two years and burglary was the primary crime.

All I'm saying is, someone ought to look into this Trump guy, just to make sure he's on the up-and-up.

I may have Tourettes Syndrome, but Tourettes Syndrome doesn't balls piss.

A saying attributed to Ed Wynn holds that a comic says funny things, but a comedian says things funny. Then there was Jeff, who apparently watched "Mad TV", wrote down whatever lines got the loudest laughs, and tried to work them into conversations later stripped of context and performance.

Christmas still desperately hanging on by its fingernails down at the Stop & Shop on Atlantic & Flatbush.