From the Legendary Beasts series in Finding Out magazine.
Art for the Magic the Gathering card of the same name
Dick Van Dyke comes from an era where it would be real easy to do a lot of bad shit without anyone ever knowing, and I hope he never did.
The one toy I wanted more than anything as a kid was the Jurassic Park Compound.
I see them on Ebay going for $100-200, but that's just for the building itself. It'd be pretty pointless to have a big fence with no dinosaurs in it, so I'd have to buy some dinos too. And I need action figures to sit in the watchtower and watch over the dinosaurs, you gotta have that.
And then the realities of adulthood set in: I wouldn't enjoy this toy as much as I would have when I was a kid. Kid me would probably spend hours with this thing crafting big elaborate stories about wrangling dinosaurs and stuff like that. Nearly-40 me would set up the toys, make sure everyone's in cool poses, and then it would probably sit on a shelf. I'm not really sure it's worth it.
So while I'm sad I never got the toy as a kid, I think going back and buying it nowadays would be kind of an expensive hollow victory.
[laughs in trans man] no thanks, it's all yours.
The plan was to cover everything in orange, but as I was applying the skin I liked the orange/black combo so much I decided to leave it like that.
Being nice to waitstaff/receptionists/cashiers/etc, even if there's an issue.
You can be annoyed at the situation, sure. But being nice to the employee shows you know that 99% of the time the problem is not their fault and 100% of the time yelling won't solve anything.
Whether or not that song "Lil Boo Thang" is sampling "Best of My Love" by The Emotions.
It is, and I think my mom even realized she was in the wrong, but she kept playing dumb. Mostly because she knew how much it was driving my sister and I batty.
Thankfully it wasn't really an argument, just a goofy conversation.
["Autopsy report has been updated" sound]
Adam and Eve, not Adam and bees!
Say Gex? I would, but it's not tail time yet!
I would also add any sort of variation of "at this job, we're like a family!"
Congrats on the long horse
It was right around the release of Star Wars Episode I, and the new pastor thought if he brought modern pop culture references into his sermon, maybe The Youths would sit up and pay attention.
The sermon was a whole thing about "being a Jedi Knight for God" and it was insufferable. I'm not sure time has ever gone by slower. I was twelve and absolutely not won over, I wanted to crawl out of the pew and die.