I always figured Bert & Ernie were kids.
I wasn't sure how they got to have their own apartment but it looked like a pretty sweet deal to me. I was jealous. I really wanted my own place. From the time I was five.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Jun 28, 2013 8:12:03 am PDT #27485 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Jesse - Jun 28, 2013 8:14:47 am PDT #27486 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think mostly I just want to live next door to her in the Hamptons, because a) Hamptons!, and b) she could cook for me and bring me flowers from her garden.
Oh yeah. The snotty thing my mother likes to point out is that she is actually a caterer, so when she's making food for her "friends"? Possibly paying clients, not actual friends.
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2013 8:20:02 am PDT #27487 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
until death do us part doesn't have a clause that says you take it all back if one of or both of you just ain't up to or up for that piece of it
Technically you can take it back for any reason you please.
But, yeah, "they can't be gay because they can't have sex!" just screams of so little sense-making I'm surprised it made it to print. Especially, as Matt notes, in a larger muppetverse with straight people.
P.M. Marc - Jun 28, 2013 8:21:28 am PDT #27488 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Technically you can take it back for any reason you please.
Well, depending on if you live in a no fault state or not, but true.
tommyrot - Jun 28, 2013 8:35:06 am PDT #27489 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How many states don't have no-fault divorce? I have vague memories of no-fault being controversial in the early '70s.
Tom Scola - Jun 28, 2013 8:36:18 am PDT #27490 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
New York was the last state that didn't have no-fault, and it enacted it several years ago.
tommyrot - Jun 28, 2013 8:38:05 am PDT #27491 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. I would have figured a more conservative state would be the last to adopt it.
Tom Scola - Jun 28, 2013 8:38:47 am PDT #27492 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
New York, as you might imagine, has a powerful lawyer lobby.
Jesse - Jun 28, 2013 8:39:36 am PDT #27493 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So my coworker just asked if anyone had a sample of an "HTML postcard" that she could look at. I was like, "WTF is an HTML postcard." So someone sent me one, and you know what it is? IT'S AN EMAIL. Not even an exceptionally short and/or graphic email! Jargon, man.
hippocampus - Jun 28, 2013 8:56:53 am PDT #27494 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Sparky, we really should write that book sometime.
Thanks, Laura.
I love that New Yorker cover so much.