If Bridgerton is introducing King George III, it better be the one from Eight Songs for a Mad King
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Crazy bet: the 2024 GOP presidential candidate will be NEITHER Trump nor DeSantis. Going Truman on this one.
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Get Your FREE Brandon Vs. Vallas Poster this weekend JUST by Volunteering! - mailchi.mp/40f0e4fa8f25/p
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The inevitable next step of “paying for jpegs” was “paying to get rid of jpegs”
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Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their blue checkmarks to avoid the shame boingboing.net/2023/03/23/twi
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One of the most apocalyptic developments of the last few years is donuts as a garnish
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This abandoned, spaceship-like building is home to a museum so unpopular that it has been put on hiatus for over two decades.
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Just heard the Louis Jordan version of “Keep A Knockin’” recorded 18 years before the Little Richard version in 1957. Looked it up and the earliest recorded version is from 1928 (!) by James “Boodle It” Wiggins
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My mom still calls me Joey Jo-Jo from time to time
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"Moe, I need your advice."
"Yeah?"
"See, I got this friend named Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo."
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A piece for 16 grand pianos laid on their sides (“sound icons”). I remember scouring the Internet for a lousy MP3 of this.
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Dad at the pool swimming with his baby… with a black sun tattoo on his chest
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A therapist is like a private lesson teacher. If you're not vibing with them but you don't want to quit all together, you probably just need to find a better match--and you should shop around until you find one that works for you.
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Mr. Pickles, a critically endangered species of tortoise at the Houston Zoo, finally became a father at the age of 90. He and his partner, Mrs. Pickles, welcomed three tortoise hatchlings: Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeño.
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Getting to the age where I can only do this for 90 minutes before crashing. G'nite Eastern Hemisphere.
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When you have two young kids and a wife who works from home, waking up in the middle of the night to grade while everyone is asleep is like a little vacation.
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guy hearing rap for the first time:
“Melle Mel”
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“and I'm here to say”
oh word?
“I was born on the 15th day of May”
I think this guy’s rhyming
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I love when rappers say their names and then that “they are here to say” something
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I think it’s beautiful that we’ve immortalized Issac Newton’s contributions to science with the Fig Newton.
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Just figured out that we recorded this 11 years ago and I’m feeling pretty old
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Riley might be sobbing in her new school but at least her dad got Peter Thiel to invest in “Shavvr” the uber for haircuts
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Watching Inside Out with my daughter and I REALLY hope they say what the company that Riley’s dad founded does. It would be great if all this childhood trauma is because the dad needs investors in a subscription service for belts
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The students that do the least make you work the most at the end of the quarter
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honestly kind of hilarious how many of the problems I had in my 20s were because I had (but was not yet diagnosed with) 1. depression and 2. lactose intolerance
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I don’t think I even know 40 different types of seeds
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The Tollund Man who lived during the 4th Century BC, was so well preserved on discovery that that he was mistaken for a recent murder victim. His internal organs were intact & it was concluded that his last meal was porridge consisting of 40 kinds of seeds buff.ly/3xOFM0P
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I couldn’t think of a “for the benefit of Mr. kite” so I just called it “for the edification of Mr. slaps”
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1960, Orson Welles explained how he wrangled complete creative control for his first film, Citizen Kane, as well as the value of “ignorance” to break through old ideas.
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Starting to get those Vallas dark money ads and #1 hilarious that they don’t mention the name Vallas #2 they’re way overestimating how the differently the CTU strike played in the city VS the suburbs/RW news… which is unsurprising
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We need a $250 million, live-action, Michael Bay directed Carmen SanDiego movie. Magic School Bus, too.
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Having a late-Dylan Thomas-style St. Patrick’s Day today: being sick as a dog, shivering in bed, fighting the temptation to drink through it
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