Dread Pirate Zed

"Lieutenant" literally translates to "place holder"; before it was a military rank it meant a person designated to stand in for a higher-ranking official (very similar to "vicar".)

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Periodic grammar/usage rant:
TENET and TENANT both come from Latin "tenere", to hold - when the Declaration says "we hold these truths to be self-evident", those are tenets.
A tenant is one who holds property (by title or lease).

They are _not_ interchangeable!

Absolutely 💯 Appomattox. Would (mostly) avoid the danger of demonizing the rank and file of the losing side - their descendants _are_ our neighbors and family, after all - but help pound home the message that this was NOT a glorious Lost Cause.

A guy can dream, anyway.

As a longtime nonbeliever, and a former member of two disparate Christian denominations, I am inherently in favor of religious freedom and against religious tests.

But I'm starting to rethink that: I've come to the conclusion that a belief in the desirability of Armageddon should be disqualifying.

STOP IMMANENTIZING THE ESCHATON

Wow - then these are even dumber than I thought (and I was already impressed by how dumb they were!)
Keep fighting the good fight, and don't let the idiots wear you down.

Dumb question: is it OK for the gatherer to pre-fill part of the line? Pre-filling the address seems extremely sketchy, but I can 💯 imagine writing "Philadelphia" all the way down the page if I knew I'd be there all day.
Even more basic: is the signer required to do anything more than sign?

I bought Hyperion on the earnest recommendation of [some guy I knew and whose taste I thought I trusted]. I noped out at ~ 3/4 when they were literally following the Yellow Brick Road and I asked myself "wtf is this BS I'm reading?"
Never followed his further career, never found out he was racist.

His name's not even Bruce

His grudges do have some entertainment value, though.

Years ago I went to Defcon with my friend and shared a hotel room. I awoke in the middle of the night to find him, fully asleep, standing next to his bed and peeing into it.
Autopilot is great, but it ain't foolproof.

🎶well, i'm not uptight
not unattractive
turn me on tonight
i'm-a radioactive...🎶

I was totally isolated from pop culture/music in the mid-80s, til one day in high school my art teacher brought in a tape of music videos recorded off MTV. "Radioactive" was one of the first I ever saw, and it's stuck.

Skankin' Pickle would like a word

Already Been Chewed

i for one welcome our new alien overlords

I'm gonna go to hell for this, but... in the long fallow period between Girl Scout cookie seasons, Aldi's house-brand knockoffs of Samoas are also really darn good. I forget what they're called - it's extremely generic - but they are surprisingly tasty.

please, sir, may I have samoa

Years ago I set my kitchen on fire because I kept turning down the wrong burner under a pan of frying oil. In my defense 1) it was my first electric stove and 2) a previous tenant had scrubbed off the labels that tell you which knob controls each burner. Still kick myself about it though.

YouTube video by ThePoliceVEVO The Police - Synchronicity II (Official Music Video)

I seem to remember a song about that

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🎶I can buy myself flowers
Write my name in the snow 🎶

delete your account, toenails

Exactly!

They're extraordinarily good at poking holes in socks and the lower ends of bedsheets, too. Real unsung heroes of the textile industry.

(I don't mean that they're a constant source of misery, just that I only ever notice them when they are. I guess they're basically armor plating for the phalanges, but if that's actually their job they're not very good at it.)

I'm sure they're a wonder of nature and all and there's probably some evolutionary advantage to keeping them around... but just as a personal matter, my toenails have never caused me anything but grief.

A hokey hotkey, if you will

Update: no need for Ctrl, Shift, Alt... it's just K. But only if you're already in Options/Advanced, and if you haven't scrolled down far enough you can't see whether it's checked or unchecked. What I _want_ is a toggle I can change and see the effect immediately; this hotkey is worse than useless.

Microsoft Word Options/Advanced dialog box. The text beside the option I keep having to check/uncheck says "Show bookmarks" with the first K underlined, but I have no idea which modifier keys to press with the K to toggle this setting. So it's File/Options/Advanced/scroll scroll scroll, over and over...

Traditionally, an underlined letter in a Windows/Office menu indicates a hotkey - e.g. Ctrl or Alt + letter - that lets you do the same thing without the menu.
Right now, I keep needing to hide/show bookmark boundaries - buried deep in Options/Advanced - and it seems K is the hotkey, but how...?