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What'd it take, like 45 minutes before the damage control team came up with "he's surveying the plot of the new ballroom?" They're slipping. Sean Spicer would have been screaming that at reporters before the cameras could focus on Trump doddering around up there.

Yeah, if they didn't have creative control—if the order was just "shrink the characters down to 3% of the frame and fill the rest with brightly colored landscape"—then fair enough, they did their job and they're right to be pissed that someone else is stealing the credit.

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, 19th century African American History, Bates College
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Scene from the "Stargate: SG-1" episode "200." The real-life actor Christian Bocher, appearing as himself, addresses an off-screen interviewer, explaining that he (the real-world person) is portraying an actor playing a role based on another role played by two other real-life actors.

My power ranking goes Spader < Shanks <<<<< "Christian Bocher, portraying the character of Raymond Gunne who portrays the character of Dr. Levant which is based on the character Daniel Jackson portrayed by the actor Michael Shanks originally portrayed by the actor James Spader in the feature film."

Michael McKean as the psychotic computer-generated clown from the Voyager episode "The Thaw," with various oddly-dressed alien creatures behind him

Ronald and the McDonaldland gang wait for their Happy Meals

whoa

If Trump can't* make money in the hospitality industry, NOBODY can** make money in the hospitality industry.

* in the sense of "is not capable of"
** in the sense of "is permitted to"

YouTube video by King of the Hill Luanne is a Communist - King of the Hill

Ahaha, I forgot about Luanne's communist phase. Good times.

Pff, I have a music BA and a history PhD, and I can write worse code than these punks.

And I can do it in assembly, too. These jokers have to wait 10 minutes for their programs to compile before it'll throw a bunch of nonfatal errors. My code will be permanently bricking your computer in 10 μs.

They say this cat Shaft is one centrist mother—

I'm not going to pretend I understand what brought the parents to this point, but Acosta had a responsibility to say "no" and the LEAST damning explanation is that he was just hungry for clicks to his blog, which is still awful.

Oh my god. This is absolutely ghoulish. My first thought was "why didn't they get some TV psychic to pretend to channel him" but that would be much less disrespectful.

Shame on Jim Acosta. Horrifying and sad even by the usual standards of AI ratings stunts.

Mind you, the sexual violence rate for places like college campuses actually hasn’t changed at all since we started measuring it 60 years ago.

The risk of victimization just drops significantly after age 24, creating an illusion among older women that there is less violence.

Negative net migration AND three straight months of job numbers on life support. Not easy to fuck both of those up at the same time, but here we are.

It may seem like odd behavior, but insects will do this sometimes to convince their fitness trackers that they've met their distance goals, set new PRs for speed, etc.

to say nothing of a step up

The details are even worse than the headline.

I want to believe this is true, and if so great, but then I gotta wonder why Harvard let itself suffer another week of reputational damage and internal angst before it finally refuted the story.

Maybe there's a galaxy-brain "let the baby have his bottle" play at work, but that seems unlikely.

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

1985
KRAFT HEADQUARTERS
BRAINSTORMING SESSION

"Lunchoids"
"Lunchlike"
"Paradinner"
"Lunchulacra"
"I Can't Believe It's Not Lunch"
"Simuluncheon"
"Now You Lunch Meat, Now You Don't"
"Lunchables"
"Lunching and Nothingn—wait, Dave, say that last one again."
"Lunchables?"
"Gentlemen, we're done here."

What a loss for our field.

Willow (Warwick Davis) and Madmartigan (Val Kilmer) argue over what to feed Elora Danan (a baby)

Willow: What are you doing?

Madmartigan: I found some blackroot. She loves it.

Willow: Blackroot? I'm the father of two children, and you never, ever give a baby blackroot. You give them delicious Jell-O™, in eight great fruity flavors!

They should have gone full product integration and had Willow just constantly snacking on Jell-O.

Damn straight. I'm almost 50 and I'm getting creamed in the early battles of the final boss castle because the only resource I've been able to farm even a little is gold, which is useless at this point. And to do THAT, I had to pass on pretty much every stat boost.

Also, I don't play video games.

While Pennsylvania has a surprising number of Bigfoot and UFO devotees, and New Jersey and West Virginia have the Devil and Mothman, respectively, the Keystone State does have some lesser-known, unique cryptids — and there’s a handful of people who want to hype up the lowly Squonk. This weekend’s third annual Squonkapalooza, at a former bottling plant turned artist hub in downtown Johnstown, Cambria County, will feature live music, artists, and more. “My motto is like ‘Pennsylvania is home, and sadness is all we know.’ That kind of thing,” said Johnstown native Joe Fogle, the festival’s organizer. “For Squonkapalooza, you think about a lot of the issues we have nowadays: health issues, mental issues. The Squonk is kind of a representation of that status.” [Picture of a man in a Squonk costume. It is a vaguely pig-like creature.]

I am also a clinically depressed cryptid from Johnstown, PA, but the Squonk and I are not related.

Mick Foley as the pro wrestling character "Mankind"

It's a typo for Mick Foley, better known to wrestling fans as Mankind. He's famously buddies with Tori Amos, so it's plausible he knew Aimee Mann through her.

Now, I recommend you join me in closing the window and never ever thinking about the matter again.

The other thing about it is IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT THE BEST USE CASE SCENARIOS ARE. STUDENTS ARE USING IT TO CHEAT AND NOT LEARN ANYTHING. HOW YOU INTEND FOR A PRODUCT TO BE USE DOESN'T ALWAYS MATTER

I think the background checks are going to be limited to "does this person bear a vague resemblance to their driver's license photo."

P!nk, a border collie, launches herself like a missile into the body of her owner at the conclusion of the 2019 WKC Agility competition.

I don't care about dog agility but I will watch it for an hour just for the part at the end of each run where the dogs, now maximally hyped, launch themselves like a missile at their owners for pets.

I'm genuinely curious if Hassett understands that the bad jobs numbers are an argument FOR the interest rate cut Trump so desperately wants. That's day-one macro stuff. He's the Director of the National Economic Council. Does he actually know that?