This stuck with me: Years ago, someone on Reddit described their middle school in the ‘70s having to have an assembly to stop a potlatch/arms race between kids stacking Izod/Lacoste shirts. There were well-off kids wearing three or more stacked Lacoste shirts every day, and poorer kids wearing cheap generic polo shirts under real alligator shirts to try to keep up.
It was the spirit of Homer Davenport. Rejoice and have another slice of marionberry pie.
That was the joke, but I trust it’s much improved by the explication.
It’s what a manchild thinks is sci-fi.
Dixon.
Def my fave of that series too.
Random memory, but the early Norton suite on the Mac was like this amazing Swiss Army knife; it has fallen from great heights to the pit of hell.
Yeah, it’s really stark looking back at it.
Friends was a relatively well-written show, with strong comedic actors. It didn’t need this level of aggressive laugh-tracking.
If you want to be a bit poetic: There’s a thing I know nothing of.
Yeah, the comedic utility is inverse to actual.
You could get a card that entitled you to a free battery every month.
GBR has crazy jellyfish. Otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DswPLKfi00A
Hope they got all of the free battery of the month cards!
Piss-play fetish if you swim around the Great Barrier Reef a lot.
Maybe this is the equivalent of defending ethical capitalism, but an ad-supported model can enable poor users to access content they couldn’t afford if it were paid.
He had like 900 kids.
The Marching Morons
Piped sounds nice, but in use, it has more issues than King Moulay Ismail of Morocco.
Windowlicker.
I may have an outdated sense of what a potlatch was. I was using the term in the sense of destroying value, per this kind of definition:
“A potlatch involves giving away or destroying wealth or valuable items in order to demonstrate a leader’s wealth and power. “