To the tune of “The Farmer and the Cowman”

The especially stupid thing about this is that we live in a time when it’s ridiculously easy (for kids and adults) to look things up! If you come across a reference you don’t understand you can find out what it means in seconds, maybe even with the same device you’re using to read!

Who called it The Free Press Supper Club and not The Free Fress

Why do these look like Tintin books

Alexander Payne or go home

Also the world’s first post questioning the platform it’s posted on

This energy bar company is pivoting to tinned fish (the common denominator? protein) which may be a great move but feels like a detail from a dystopian sci-fi story

“Yeah, I graduated from Harvard” “Cum laude?” “I can do whatever volume you want”

Spammed By Joshes: A Democrat’s Story

TIL in the French version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” the lion is, in fact, dead

Claudechism

@librarythingtim.bsky.social have you seen this

Can’t wait for the “AImends” feature where you plug in the email addresses of those you’ve harmed and an agent takes it from there

They’ve created a special department to hire workers for the project... . . . . Arch Manning

The Brazilians figured it out

No, YOU’RE out of order

We live in a game of Mad Libs played by a 4-year-old

Attempting seltzer-mediated travel to Flavortown, 2026 edition

Just found out Markwayne Mullin is a pen name. He was born Samuellemons Mullin

It’s been fun, over the years, to watch Anthony Lane calcify into a parody of himself www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My contribution to Star Wars discourse is this old headline, which I like to think of as “Jar Jar’s confession”

When Rudy brought rudy.coffee to market last year I became intrigued by his delivery of one word in the ad read

YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?

AltaKocka was right there

Wow, I’ll be impressed if they can pull this off

WHAT ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU POPPING UP ON MY MAC DESKTOP 10X/DAY

You really have to read between the lines here to glean that an equally effective and safe vaccine was available until antivaxxers drove it off the market

In an am-I-having-a-stroke moment in this Wayfair product video, Maeve confidently says “sizewise the headboard is more than 63 inches tall” while standing next to a headboard that’s clearly about 40 inches tall (it even shows her height for comparison)

This is an extremely funny way to describe the awkwardness of carrying bags without handles My arms!

Here’s a subtle one: Jake Thackray does indeed have a song called “The Gravedigger” but it is not in fact a translation of Brassens’ “Le Fossoyeur”

Sadly, I do believe “people also ask” this

Add one letter to make a movie body horror How Stella Got Her Grooved Back

Huh. Interesting AI contextual bias in Google Translate here (ChatGPT does the same thing, Bing gives “wise” in both cases)

In college we once joked about a plan to occupy an administration building with only one demand: amnesty for having occupied the building. Thinking about this today for no reason

So glad they rescued Solomon Grundy

The middle review here could use a bit more context

What does this mean? I’m using the printer, I swear! I just printed something!

You know the famous saying: “There are no second acts in this economy”

“An airplane ran into a fire truck.” Our nation is now a preschool. Tomorrow a dinosaur will arrest an astronaut

The Rooftop Pickleball League will never be the same sports.yahoo.com/articles/cha...

The rise in Alpine Divorces is being offset by Quicksand Honeymoons

Shopping at Costco really skews your sense of when to restock things. “Almost out of cinnamon!” In fact there’s as much cinnamon left in there as you’d have if you just got a brand-new normal jar of cinnamon from a normal store “We need sponges” actually we have a month of sponges

What’s your favorite digital service you pay for and use daily but have no idea how to pronounce? Mine might be Qobuz

Thought this was about ordering ecstasy online

Exclusive footage of Trump encouraging oil company CEOs to use the Strait of Hormuz

Men at Work. Their first two albums arguably belong in the top 200 of the 80s. Their third album is unlistenable

Nostradamus