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1. Member
   EDISONPARKS

   @user_54742

   

   9:34 AM EDT ⋅ Jun 15, 2017

   Eustace C. Scrubb (View Comment):
   There are some TV shows that don’t stick it at first, but are still worth watching. Parks and Recreation is a great show, but DON’T watch the first season.

   The pilot season(first 6 episodes) of Seinfeld was pretty mehh, but the 1991 Season may be some of best sitcoms ever made

2. Member
   LibertyDefender

   @LibertyDefender

   3:14 PM EDT ⋅ Jun 15, 2017

   Miffed White Male (View Comment):

   LibertyDefender (View Comment):
   Hey, where’s the link to the Jeremy Corbyn high five FAIL? Evidently he’s skipped high five practice every day this week.

   Holy cow, check out the dude in the thick glasses on the far right of the screen in that first video. Looks like he stepped straight out of a Monty Python sketch. Or maybe a Peter Sellers movie.

   That might be the guy P.J. O’Rourke was having dinner with in London:

   I was having dinner in the Groucho Club — this week’s in-spot for what’s left of Britain’s lit gritz and nouveau rock riche — when one person started in on the Stars And Stripes. Eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “your country’s never been invaded.” (This fellow had been two during the Blitz, you see.) “You don’t know the horror, the suffering. You think war is…”

   I snapped.

   “A John Wayne movie,” I said. “That’s what you were going to say, wasn’t it? We think war is a John Wayne movie. We think life is a John Wayne movie — with good guys and bad guys, as simple as that. Well, you know something, Mister Limey Poofter? You’re right. And let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us. WE BE BAD. We’re the baddest-a sonsofbitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We’re three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother’s side. You take your Germany, France and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn’t give us room to park our cars. We’re the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap D’Antibes. And we’ve got an American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go.” You’re right, little buddy. Because I’d like to see the needle-dicked foreigners who’d have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying ‘Cheerio.’ Hell can’t hold our sock-hops. We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, [screw] longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I’d rather be a junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen, and jack of all Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfast and [poop] them out before lunch.”

   Of course, this guy should have punched me. But this was Europe. He just smiled his shabby, superior European smile. (God, don’t these people have dentists?)

   –From Holidays In Hell, “Life Among The Euro-Weenies,” by P. J. O’Rourke

3. Coolidge
   FredGoodhue

   @FredGoodhue

   8:21 PM EDT ⋅ Jun 15, 2017

   Back when I was a school child in Hawaii, we were taught about the receding ocean and fleeing.

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   profdlp

   @profdlp

   5:16 PM EDT ⋅ Jun 16, 2017

   FredGoodhue (View Comment):
   Back when I was a school child in Hawaii, we were taught about the receding ocean and fleeing.

   Maybe that’s what Obama meant when he said the rise of the sea levels would slow – that there was a tsunami on the way.  The next eight years did about as much harm.

5. Coolidge
   Fresch Fisch

   @FreschFisch

   2:53 AM EDT ⋅ Jun 17, 2017

   Pixar’s Up is on my list for best movies of the century.

6. Member
   Eustace C. Scrubb

   @EustaceCScrubb

   8:15 AM EDT ⋅ Jun 17, 2017

   Fresch Fisch

   Pixar’s Up is on my list for best movies of the century.

   Intially, I didn’t see that Up was capitalized and saw this as a general endorsement of Pixar. Which would be fair.  There are a number of Pixar films that could be argued to be among the best of the century: Up, Ratatoulille, Inside Out, Toy Story III, Wall-E, and my favorite, The Incredibles.

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   Nick Baldock

   @NickBaldock

   11:46 AM EDT ⋅ Jun 20, 2017

   My go-to for ‘party name’ or ‘prison name’ is ‘wasn’t she a minor Bond girl?’

   As it happens, some of our constituencies play this game quite well:

   Cannock Chase

   Chipping Barnet

   Hazel Grove

   Saffron Walden

   Surrey Heath

   Sutton Coldfield

   Taunton Deane

   – could all have been Bond girls.

    

   Bill Bryson, in Notes from a Small Island, has a hilarious extended riff on British place-names.

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   MFitt

   @MFitt

   10:28 PM EDT ⋅ Jun 21, 2017

   The homeworld of the Klingon Empire is Qo’noS  transliterated as Kronos.