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He paid for my college. He bought me and my ex cars. I always thought of myself as lucky.
This is just a whole 'nother level.
To clarify: I'm not _mad_, I'm just _gobsmacked_.
My father got a settlement from his boss for being fired improperly. He gave me $5000. (I think the settlement was $30k and it went $5k to each kid, $10k to him, probably paid down the mortgage, knowing him.)
(If you don't know where it's from, don't look. That guys clearly has his own problems, it's just that making rent isn't one of them.)
Since everyone is on about this, I'll put in my two cents.
That's more than a year's income for me, and I'm a relatively successful adult with two children.
That's the purchase price of a small house, outside of Silly Valley.
Alice: Do you believe X?
Eve: I believe it's valuable to profess belief in X. I try not so sully myself with low-level concerns like if X is actually true or false.
I saw a large tent with a cross on top of it in a Walmart parking lot.
So, for those predicting another great awakening, there's some evidence.
Alice: It's not fair of you to dislike that song just because your ex liked it.
Bob: Yes, I'm sure Cher's lawyers will be sending me a sternly worded letter any day now.
I thought they'd have given up by now, but I guess there's a lot of ruin in a franchise.
Let's see if they can pull out of the nosedive.
_Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki_ Season 5.
_The Machine Stops_
A Science Fiction Horror Story of people who are isolated from each other and only connected by machines.
Written in _1909_!
If you think it's a Constitutional Crisis when the other party wins elections, get a grip.
Good Old-fashioned, Just reload the page on a timeout-based update.
Alice: Well, potato potato.
Bob: ... You know, you're supposed to pronounce the two "potato"es differently.
Alice: Why would I want to mispronounce "potato"?
Bob: Let's back up. What do you think the phrase means?
I'm really intrigued by the fight over memorable terminology that's currently going on in discussion and media.
"Race scapegoating" vs "banning teaching history".
I think the fight over terminology is more interesting than the thing they're actually fighting over!
Old: I love America.
Bold: ... but I also acknowledge its flaws and failures.
Foretold: ... but I don't dismiss its good qualities.
Gold: ... especially on the fourth of July.
My work's policy I'd that if the fourth of July is on a Sunday, you get the following Monday off.
My kid's summer job doesn't have today off, so I still have to get up and drive him into town.
"Region 0". Yeah right. Only if you're rocking a European TV.
My Unplayable Disks collection is now up to three.
I have an HD-DVD, an UltraHD Blu-ray, and now, a PAL DVD.
(Okay, I can play the PAL DVD through VLC if I manually set up deinterlacing. Hope the old laptop that still has a disk drive doesn't die.)
Reminder: The Bechdel Test is the setup for a punchline about skipping the movie and going home.
Wikipedia shows half of the strip, making it look like a non-funny Explainer Comic, rather than the sarcastic joke about movie quality that it is.
Here is the full strip.
