There's only one double dash in my universe!

140K is an after-tax income of 100K. If you spend 75% of your after-tax income on housing (which is utterly insane but people do it), that's $6250 per month, which could support a house price of $800,000 to $900,000. Not a lot for Manhattan.

You could also pay $6250 a month for rent which is also utterly insane, but would at least get you a somewhat normal apartment with some actual space.

Because of the deportations they have to hire demons as line cooks.

I know people have made this point before, but alcoholic is alcohol + ic, so someone addicted to work should be a workic.

Hey man nice shot

I've been on planes and watched the shadow of the plane I'm on passing over the ground.

I had never even heard of an em-dash until I started reading comments about AI using them. I had always just used a hyphen in the same way. Since I like to think of myself as an educated writer, I started using them. Now people think I'm AI lol.

{{tell amusing story about being mistaken for AI}}

Uh, do you buy a car from a phone number scrawled on the inside of a porta-potty?

Ellison had attended University of Southern California’s film school for two semesters and then left in 2005 and traveled the world.

Lol totally qualified on her own. The very definition of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

I used to eat lunch at Taco Bell in 1991. They had a fifty-cent menu so $2.50 could get you rice and beans, two hard-shell tacos and two meximelts, which was a more than adequate amount of food for lunch.

Last week I bought lunch for my mother and I at Five Guys. Two burgers, one order of fries and two small fountain drinks came to $44. The fries were so greasy that the bottom of the bag broke open in my car.

Rupert Murdoch is so old that his fucking dad (not grandfather or great-grandfather) orchestrated a successful smear campaign against Australia's best general during WWI, over a century ago. Reason: the general was Jewish.

The "running man" hypothesis -- the idea that our ancestors a million or two years ago were casually jogging after prey animals until they dropped from exhaustion due to our supposedly superior endurance -- is utter nonsense. It's absurd on its face and there is absolutely no evidence of any kind supporting it, yet it has become generally accepted as an incontrovertible fact about our past.

The man who initially proposed this idea in the 1960s (Grover Krantz) has become utterly forgotten and is never referenced by the idea's modern proponents, and for good reason: he was better-known as a staunch believer in the existence of Bigfoot. Also, for no reason I've ever been able to figure out, his skeleton and the skeleton of his favorite dog are on display at the Smithsonian.