Scare Quotes

The common hippopotamus, who resents being called "common" as he says he has varied interests and reads avidly. For example, he enjoys different types of grasses as seen here

mods r asleep, post potamus

At least he doesn’t shoot dogs? 🤷🏻

do you ever follow someone and think wow they’re really funny and cool i think i’d like to watch them through their kitchen window

replacing apple maps with echolocation

I could have fried in your arms tonight it must have been some kind of piss

After the police had that talk with me, I learned that being a person of interest and an interesting person are two different things.

Cinderella's Fairy Godmother was an excellent typist,
because she believed in carriage returns.

I'm always confused by people who block me for limiting replies.
It's like, "So you, too, actually DO believe in users' rights to set boundaries for who interacts with them?"

good news. wallet chains are alive and well in 2026

I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone of the New Kids on the Block dolls that had plastic Ken hair with real braided rat tails poking out the back.

bsky.app/profile/quot...

This is the correct answer.

Cop stroking and caressing bald head of a Marine while several people try to detain the marine.

Why the fuck is that cop caressing his head?

I’m onto watching marathons of shows that once I could only watch weekly. It’s a wild life.

What’s something you could do in the 80s that you can’t do today? I’ll start: sell arms to Iran.

My favorite Dragon Balls character is either Roku or Velveeta.

rosebud was the name of the housekeeper he murdered

the cover of "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," collected from folklore and retold by Alvin Schwartz and drawings by Stephen Gammell. the title is big up at the top. underneath it is an illustration in sketchy ink and watercolor of a bald, skull-like head growing directly out of the ground seen in profile, with a splash of blue down the center of the head and red around its nose and lips like the worst clown you've ever seen. the head is smoking a pipe. on one side of the head is a dilapidated barn, on the other side are a couple of gravestones, and a full moon floats in an ominous cloudy-dark sky above. the overall effect is UNSETTLING.

we must ensure the classics remain a part of the curriculum

These boots were made for walkin'

These shorts were made for cargo

This shirt was made for polo

These socks were made for lovin'

Exactly! I can’t read without a pencil.

For a second I missed the joke because I thought it was a poster for the exhibition of his archives a few years back at the New York Public Library www.nypl.org/events/exhib...

Still from the first teenage mutant ninja turtles movie showing one of the turtles sitting in a chair in the dark looking depressed

I never got this close in my own musical history, but I did have a song on my 2002 album "themamen" called "gem theme" that was an amalgam of my style up to that point. I also had an album called "specific" which is perpendicular to the theme.

generalmusician.bandcamp.com/track/gem-th...

H. R. 7661 by Mary E. Miller (R-IL-15) is more than a book ban.

"… to prohibit use of funds to develop, implement, host, or promote ANY PROGRAM or ACTIVITY for, or to provide or promote LITERATURE or other materials to, children that included sexually oriented material, and FOR OTHER PURPOSES."

In the cultural arena, the CEO of Global Arts Live sent an email about how they had to cancel several performances due regime's denial of visas:

Les Ballets Africains, Habib Koité (Mali), Tinariwen (Tuareg artists from southern Algeria and northern Mali), others…

It's impacting cultural exchange.

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I'll bite ... Anthropic is a suntan lotion right?