Dread Pirate Zed

No, I didn't say the bathroom is a post-apocalyptic wasteland. I just said that - since we installed a bidet with cold water only - it's been one ICBM after another.

I'm old enough to have played with steel-tipped Jarts™️lawn darts; it's become a right-wing punchline to mock American society as wussified for banning those things, but dag nab were they a stupid thing to put in the hands of kids.

It's an unbreakable rule of nature: there can be no toy so useless, so inherently deranged, and so physically and/or morally dangerous that SOME idiot won't buy it for their kid.

Same same. Every damn time I put on a backpack, I start with both straps - but before I've gone a quarter mile, it's on one shoulder.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

🎶 Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed*
That will disclose
What everybody knows.🎶

*crapper

The spice must flow

I confess that I like the way Tom Steyer talks - but I am deeply uncomfortable with the idea of electing a billionaire.
With as much money as he has, he already has (practically) as much power to do good as the governor - so why does he need to buy the office too?

The longest decade of your life begins when the washing machine says 0:01

One of my nephews really, really loves LitRPG and was after me to try them; haven't dipped into DCC, but:
"Heretical Fishing" and "He Who Fights With Monsters" - more RPG than lit, but OK
"Going Home" and "Monster Rancher" - hells no

$84 million would be huge to me, but in the context of the world oil market, that's basically less than 10 minutes, innit? Strong Dr. Evil "one MILLION dollars" vibe.

You don't know him like dat

dad.7z for the Windows crowd

I was generally pretty happy with Villaraigosa as Mayor; I've subsequently realized that that was mostly because I didn't know what was going on behind the scenes. Sit down, Tony (or should I call you Captain Herbalife?)

Drinking coffee on the back porch in the morning, I've noticed that LAX-bound planes coming in from the northeast are invisible from the horizon until they cross a particular area of sky, then they pop into visibility as bright dots before resolving into airliners.
It's like a United spawn point.

Jamme, jamme 'ncoppa, jamme jà!

We like to mute the TV during commercials; I recently discovered that it's really funny - in a grimly ironic way - to watch a Miracle-Ear commercial with no sound.

pale fellow well met

(note: not an usher, but a stagehand. My bad.)

Don't just watch the car in front of you - watch the car in front of them, if possible. The two cardinal laws of driving are "Don't be surprising" and "Don't be surprised."

In most of your interactions as a customer, you're going to be a blip, forgotten in an instant - and that's OK! But if you absolutely must be remembered by the person serving you, let it be as the best thing that happened to them that day.

Freddie Mercury, Robin Williams, and Anthony Bourdain. There have been many others whose loss hurt, but those were the three that rattled me worst.

Cover of Russian edition of "1984" by George Orwell, which (in Russian) is spelled Джордж Оруелл - Dzhordzh Oruell.

One of my favorite examples:

I never read the book (or followed up the background details), so I don't really know - but that was certainly my impression watching the show. That made the actual Dudamel cameo even funnier.

They had SO MANY cameos (and even recurring roles) for major classical music figures; as far as I know, Dudamel was the only one to not appear as himself. All of them had really good senses of humor about themselves, though.

Another bit that still cracks me up: they play a gig at Hollywood Bowl, and Rodrigo talks to an usher in the wings who encourages him to come conduct in LA - because "they hate their current conductor".
The usher was played by Gustavo Dudamel, who was then the VERY popular conductor of the LA Phil.

So many great moments, storylines, punchlines! In the very first episode, the Styx jukebox musical made me do a spit-take, and it still makes me chuckle every time I think of it.
A few years after we watched the show, I started hearing "Lisztomania" at Panera and such; made me smile.

Yes, but have you tried putting the lime in the coconut?

I was going to suggest Aldi - their house-brand corn chips are a pretty decent Fritos substitute - but I just checked their UK website and they don't carry them there.

I had no idea the UK was such a wasteland. My sympathies!

How we made Starship Troopers ‘I borrowed from the films of Leni Riefenstahl to show that these soldiers were like something out of Nazi propaganda. I even put one in an SS uniform. But no one noticed’

The movie subverts the book's premise by making the whole thing a big, shiny propaganda piece while letting you see behind the curtain. It's certainly possible to see it as an endorsement of fascism, but only if you slept through most of it.
Verhoeven certainly minces no words in interviews.