This wasn’t just a quirk of Burns, but a joke about his age:
Alexander Graham Bell initially suggested that the standard greeting when answering a telephone should be “ahoy”, but instead “hello” (suggested by Thomas Edison) was adopted.
This wasn’t just a quirk of Burns, but a joke about his age:
Alexander Graham Bell initially suggested that the standard greeting when answering a telephone should be “ahoy”, but instead “hello” (suggested by Thomas Edison) was adopted.
The thing that stands out the most to me is when he said that London was no longer an English city. What he meant by that is that it was no longer a mostly white city.
Actually, it will be super easy, barely an inconvenience for them to meet my expectations, because they’re so low. But they probably still won’t.
New Orleans is the only parish in the entire state where he didn’t win the vote, with only 16.2% voting for him.
As long as the bag is under a guillotine, I support this.
“That man’s name? Hannibal Lector.”
My guess is that in order for life to survive long enough to get to the point where it becomes sapient, it has to be selfish and short-sighted, which becomes a tragically fatal hindrance.
“We’re not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.”
“It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.”
“Yeah. Major drag, huh?”
A vote for Trump is a big fuck-you to the establishment.
This was true in 2016, but it isn’t any more. Trump IS the establishment as far as the GOP is concerned, and voters are doubly stupid for believing otherwise.
Not impossible, but very difficult. Only a handful of Lemmy posts made within the last few months have gotten that much.
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Yes, he’d be an asshole for giving her them as a birthday present, regardless of the fact that he got her other presents as well. Just ask her if she wants them after he gets his new ones.
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?
“So use medicine to cure me so I can keep going!”
Good caption to put on every photo ever.
Guess you missed the part where two private citizens involved in a lawsuit is not the government.
“Bubbe” only meant grandmother originally. The “baby” meaning almost certainly comes from it being a false cognate with the English word.