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by mbg721 4y ago
The more dire the serious situation, the funnier the joke.
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by mbg721 4y ago
"All right, I just got down from the mountain, and the good news is that I have some simple rules for living in harmony with God. The bad news is that there's something a little awkward that will need to be cut off..."
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by mbg721 4y ago
I was going to say something snarky about Hugh Grant and Pierce Brosnan and other charming Englishmen in suits getting to embrace the full national experience with Benny Hill, except evidently Pierce Brosnan is actually from Ireland. Today
604.
by mbg721 4y ago
I would expect a similar result if someone had a record of the "The Price Is Right" theme music.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Stephen Fry is an absolute delight; he has a series of recent books on Greek mythology that are very much worth a look.
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by mbg721 4y ago
To appreciate Benny Hill, you have to recognize both time and space. It's not 1965 anymore.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Americans may not be familiar with Rowan Atkinson's non-Mister-Bean career; I recommend the song "I Believe".
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by mbg721 4y ago
If their checks clear, it's a good place to work.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Wisconsin, duh.
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by mbg721 4y ago
What about the San Diego style burrito?
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by mbg721 4y ago
Yeah, that's clearly wrong. The Nazis were about as far away from Luddites as you can get. The whole point of the post-WWII recoil at the horror of Nazi-ism was the realization that a culturally-advanced high-tech progressive society
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by mbg721 4y ago
1984 didn't have the concept of outsourced manufacturing. (For that matter, I guess the Soviet view of the world didn't either.)
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by mbg721 4y ago
It takes a few years before even something as simple as a walk to the park isn't exciting anymore. And I think the thing that's implied in most of the pessimistic responses here is "you have to start early or you lose contro
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by mbg721 4y ago
Spending time on the Internet doesn't make you understand computers. (It does make you understand that you get a hit of happy-brain-juice when you press the Play button.) My wife teaches college courses and laments that her students,
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by mbg721 4y ago
Being in Ohio, we assume that in the Bay Area it costs $15 just to look at a menu.
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by mbg721 4y ago
There are a few diverging forms of Mexican food in the US; Taco Bell is the mass-market version of the 1960s school of thought that said "I've already browned this hamburger meat; if I put the rest of our old jar of ground cumin o
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by mbg721 4y ago
Fat or not fat, there is a point where pork shoulder day in and day out ceases to be appealing.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I appreciate the added perspective; the Anglospheric view is often either "Look at those monsters, we would never do that" or "If only the German language had the concept of humor, they wouldn't have taken that guy serio
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by mbg721 4y ago
I'm a little surprised that Skyrim runs on Windows PCs and consoles as well as it does. Bethesda has such a reputation for releasing ambitious-but-buggy games, I half-expect the headline "after 11 years, Skyrim bug-fix patch rele
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by mbg721 4y ago
This is true (unless you're okay eating the same thing as leftovers for a week straight); cooking for two makes it a lot easier and opens up more options.
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by mbg721 4y ago
So...despair to the point of suicide is a marker of racial privilege??
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by mbg721 4y ago
Was Hitler particularly good at that, or did he just have a desperate audience? The usual downfall that people point to with autocratic governments is that their leaders think they're in touch with their citizens but are really a mill
623.
by mbg721 4y ago
You can be Thurston Howell and bribe Gilligan to go make your coconuts different from everyone else's coconuts.
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by mbg721 4y ago
There's a lot of "redneck pride", but I don't think anybody has "white trash pride".
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by mbg721 4y ago
Maybe I'm unusual, but when I hear about horse-meat eating, I don't think "Gross, I'm eating a pet" as much as I think "Gross, I'm eating a car".
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by mbg721 4y ago
I suppose it is in fact possible to say "Super Genius" without prefacing it with "Wile E. Coyote..."
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by mbg721 4y ago
I don't object to expecting everyone, regardless of skin color or ancestral origin, to act polite, intelligent, and law-abiding.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Is that from the "Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?" school of celebrity perception?
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by mbg721 4y ago
I'm a little surprised you got downvoted on this. Where I am in Ohio, "white trash" doesn't mean "poor people who happen to be white (in addition to brown people who are by default trashy)", it implies going a
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by mbg721 4y ago
Sure, but they're only doing that because they're desperate and have no other ideas. They'd make way more money if they had a monolithic gaggle of 18-35 fans, and they don't.

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