Good excuse to link to hero construction as a possible corrective to the LessWrong version of Harry Potter. Not that I know where the latter is going, but after skimming LessWrong I see why essear is not optimistic.
show a particular fondness for people and/or animals doing embarrassing things on camera. (What can we say, really? It's never not going to be funny to some of us to see someone getting clocked in the
I'm sure the kid is just rushing ahead to avoid that she looks taller than her dad in the picture.
Must be about half the distance when the picture is shot.
The truncation point of the spam in 3 is kind of wonderful.
5: I concur (and left it but for the link and weirdo email address).
I deleted the other nine instances of it that appeared at the same time.
Isn't it a quote from some regular commenter? I feel like it came up in the past month somewhere here.
Here's one of my favourite pics in the genre of bad-ass kids and their families: the Obamas coming back from vacation.
Obama's suit is mis-buttoned: awesome.
Maybe it doesn't fit him properly. I mean, has anyone really seen the guy's girth certificate?
Stanley, I worked with Goethe, I knew Goethe, Goethe was a friend of mine. Stanley, you're no Goethe.
It's a little-known piece of musical trivia that the composer Peter Maxwell Davis once wrote an oratorio based on "The Sorrows of Young Werther". It premiered amid widespread publicity at the Edinburgh Festival in 1989, with the poster tagline "Made in Scotland from Goethe".