That African princess grew up in a town very near where I grew up, and being a black person on the rural West Virginia-Pennsylvania border would be an adventure I wouldn't wish on anyone. Kudos to her folks for being of a nobler sort.

It was either Bevis or Butthead who said, "If I had boobs like that, I'd never leave the house."

(Or it's possible I'm conflating the quote with something else.)

Remember the face on Mars? Turns out that from other angles it doesn't really look like a face....

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A strong myth developed, holding that the Face was an artificial structure built by some ancient civilization. Surrounding pyramids—also just interesting-looking massifs—fueled the myth. Last year, a study helped explain why: People see faces that aren't there—on Mars or in clouds—because we have "over-learned" to recognize the human face.

Do you think he would feel erquired to pay himself for this service?

There's a good chance he's owed that--I'm betting he already fixes his own computer issues.

Humans? Over-recognising the human face? Now there's a shocker.

It was either Bevis or Butthead who said, "If I had boobs like that, I'd never leave the house."

(Or it's possible I'm conflating the quote with something else.)

It's possible, as I DEFINITELY remember them making a comment like that wrt a (Marilyn Manson?) vidoe where they showed a stop-motion arm going up and down at high-speed, and how "If I could do that, I'd never leave the house." However, I wouldn't put it past Mike Judge to re-use a joke that good though.

Yeah. Maybe the boobs quote was "...I'd spend the whole day in front of the mirror."

Sometimes I wish I could borrow ita's ability for cool reason sans my rage. I realized I can't make a rational argument about gender differences/scientific abilities/math/Larry Summers without going to a rage place. It's no good for debate.

I'm becoming convinced that I never should have quit my soul-sucking job to move to Chicago, because apparently, no one wants to hire me here.

There was a comedian years ago, and I can't remember his name, but I saw him live, who made a comment about oral sex, and if men could do it, they'd never leave the house.

It's the sort of joke that finds its way into a lot of different venues, though. Last season on Veronica Mars, * Logan Echolls sent Dick Casablancas to buy some drugs from the PCHers (a local gang) as part of his plan to figure out who might be framing him. When Dick returned to Logan, he made a quip about a PCHer suggesting he perform intercourse on his own person, and Logan's reply was a riff on the same joke. "Doesn't he understand? If you could do that, you'd never come to school." Logan's not really a Beavis or Butthead type, but Dick could be their bastard child who lucked into a lot of money. *

shrift, you have a soul now. Unsucked. The rest will happen.