On the other hand, at least they didn’t shoot him.
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Fun fact that the American Media has not noticed but China sure as hell has: The tariffs list Taiwan…
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The new tariffs seem to have be set by AI: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h3bil6wi4j2odx5exizuwh3j…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Here is the Treasury Secretary freaking out: https://bsky.app/profile/fffanatic06.bsky.social/post/3…
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25On this 'liberation day' I'm reminded of Norm's clip about going to war ... with the… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Well here comes the big f- you to working families everywhere. I predict hard lessons are about to b…
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Not yet, anyway…Report
Depends. Did he point that pencil at any Officers of the Law?Report
Early prevention is important. If you don’t learn not to yell stupid obscenities at perceived authority figures on a dare when you are a kid, sooner or later you are drunkenly yelling stupid obscenities at a TV crew outside a sporting event.Report
I admit, I try to make mine a little more urbane.
I know I’ve told you all about the set up of “Do you prefer tapes or CDs?” (and then, when they say “CDs”, you can fire back with “you can see deez nuts!”) but, being married to a Master of Library Science, I have an embarrassment of setups to choose from:
“Well, Mars corresponds to Ares, Venus to Aphrodite, Jupiter to Zeus, Saturn to Chronos, Neptune to Poseidon, and Pluto to, um…” stop and lick your lips here, as if you’re digging for it.
Other fun setups:
“We were arguing about the birthplace of Western Civ and the fertile crescent and the Tigris and the, um…”
“Honey? What’s the name of that mountain range in Argentina where that plane crashed?”
“We were talking about the guy who wrote The Bacchae and Orestes.”
“The fool when talking to King Lear made the joke about the seven sisters…”
All of these are solid gold. I encourage you to use them as well.Report
You’re just enabling testicular-exhibition culture.Report
And they will get funnier every time you tell them.Report
The joy comes in the tiny pregnant moment when your interlocutor realizes that you just got them to say, for example, “Mercedes”.Report
Which reminds me of the following conversation:
Tailor: “Euripides?”
Client: “Yeah, Eumenides?”
Because I’m still 12 years old.Report
Who’s that guy from the SPLC?
What’s the RAMBAM’s real name?Report
What’s the RAMBAM’s real name?
Black Betty?Report
She’s the one from Alabam’.Report
I wonder if the person he spoke to was female should he be considered to have sexualy harassed or assualted her?Report