I am reminded of the youthful works of the Earl of Sandwich:
1741: Living in the country on a small inheritance, he works day and night, often skimping on meals to save money for food. His first completed work -- a slice of bread, a slice of bread on top of that, and a slice of turkey on top of both -- fails miserably. Bitterly disappointed, he returns to his studio and begins again.
1745: After four years of frenzied labor, he is convinced he is on the threshold of success. He exhibits before his peers two slices of turkey with a slice of bread in the middle. His work is rejected by all but David Hume, who senses the imminence of something great and encourages him. Heartened by the philosopher's friendship, he returns to work with renewed vigor.
1747: Destitute, he can no longer afford to work in roast beef or turkey and switches to ham, which is cheaper.
1750: In the spring, he exhibits and demonstrates three consecutive slices of ham stacked on one another; this arouses some interest, mostly in intellectual circles, but the general public remains unmoved. Three slices of bread on top of one another add to his reputation, and while a mature style is not yet evident, he is sent for by Voltaire.
I like the part of the story where nosflow knows what a condom looks like. Oh, man. Good one!
2: pshh yeah not likely with baby mamas in fourteen different states.
Well, rfts was there to clarify things.
3: The creepy part is there are only two baby mamas.
5: "baby let me show you this superposition that'll make you wild"
Is this one of those stories where the only point is to brag that he was with rfts?
3: The creepy part is there are only two baby mamas.
You think that's worse than the continuous digestive tract?
I think a continuous digestive tract is basically an immaculate good,* unless you're really keen on sepsis or something like that.
*in that its goodness isn't spotted or spoiled, not in that the tract is immaculate
As, yesterday afternoon, I and rfts were walking from campus to a nearby café
I see that I missed a major piece of news. Two, if there's some sort of hookup implicit in this scenario.
Given rfts's marital status, I expect that any hookup involving her and another man would not be discussed or implied on the front page of this website.
Although it's true that nosflow is not known for his discretion.
Don't you see? It's the perfect coverup.
No husband suspects the GRAMMARIAN.
Perhaps I have underestimated the man.
Anyway, I thought my location, both what it is and its nearness to rfts/snarkout, were generally known, but perhaps I was wrong; anyway, no violation of the sanctity of off-blog communications happened here, because I was cleared beforehand. (Certainly I could have simply said that I was walking from campus, etc., in the first sentence, but the prospect of doing so felt weird, like I was trying to conceal something. But in fact there's NOTHING TO CONCEAL. Honest.)
No husband suspects the GRAMMARIAN.
Perfect! I owe my 7 year-old nephew some drawings of original evil supervillains and was having a hard time coming up with evil superpowers.
11, 12: Nosflow, rfts, and I have all decided to seek the Republican nomination for president. Bring your A game, Newt!
Surely the condom would have been run over by bicycles, if it was lying there?
Surely the condom would have been run over by bicycles, if it was lying there?
Saltwater economics has its own rich store of aphorisms.
It wasn't lying there, essear, but a short ways off.
17 confuses me. What precisely is the evil superpower here? Correct use of "whom" and "lie"?
There is territory in or near IV that is "a short ways off" from bicycles rather than "anything here, including pedestrians, will be flattened by bicycles"?
Yes, precisely. I could show you if you were here.
if you were here
Oh, to be somewhere where "winter" means "a week or so of rain."
What precisely is the evil superpower here?
Terrorism.
17: Perfect! I owe my 7 year-old nephew some drawings of original evil supervillains
Make sure THE GRAMMARIAN has a nice red uniform.
One can only speculate at what precisely went wrong there.
Thanks, we haven't had a Friday Puzzler for a long time.
The narrator left out the part where he picked up the wrapper, removed the condom, dropped it on the ground, and carried off the wrapper.
We need the female version of what is going on. I don't trust the narrator.
Cripe. It's like you people never see condoms lying on the ground.
At first I was annoyed that the post title got Phil Collins' voice singing "But something happened on the way to heaven..." stuck mercilessly on repeat in my head for the better part of the day. But then I thought more about the post, realized the effect was intentional, and am now in awe. Bravo.
Yep. Have you heard of it raining men? Well, it's just like that, but we call it snowing MANDOM.
Wow. Yours sounds like the grossest town.
How many times can I say I'm sorry? (How many times?)
The title of the post made me think of the Joseph Heller novel about Bob Slocum.
I owe my 7 year-old nephew some drawings of original evil super villains.
Zoot de Suite et les Danseuses Macabres
The Foodie
Belle Bottom & The Narrow Lapel
The Slate Podcaster
The Downgrader
Braumeister Death
Nick Needle, The Natty Narrow Narc
Evil Goatee-Wearing Parallel Universe Pikachu
Charlie Sheen
I think I saw Belle Bottom & the Narrow Lapels at Hardly Strictly.
No one cares about your artisanal hipster burlesque locavore encounter group, neb.
The Contrarian
The League of Extraordinarily Serious Gentlemen
This show is rated PG-13 for brief Newtity.
The Newtrino, the Newtster, his Newtitude.
I'm not sure I understand the rules.
44000 people signed up for the online machine learning course that was mentioned here at some point? I bet they weren't counting on that....
48: made me think of the Joseph Heller novel
Ditto. "I get the willies."
44000 people signed up for the online machine learning course that was mentioned here at some point?
I bet at least 32768 of them are bots that can't parse right.
66: I think I signed up for that and then proceeded to ignore it completely. Anecdata?
How did I miss this outpouring of genius? I might roll CNN Contributor/Contrarian/Very Serious Person/Generic Talking Head into one character: The Pundit.
74: Ha. CA was just arguing with his mother on the phone about Newt, saying, "No. No. You do not have any insight into the evangelical vote in SC based on other people you know in Wilmette and Winnetka."
16: Well, I have been out of the loop. Mostly it just struck me funny, since last I knew you were ~2000 miles apart, and yet here you are, casually walking together.