“Bully!”

“You chose books, I chose looks.”

– Matilda’s mom

Unfortunately, that would effectively be a vote for Trump.

Let’s have all three. They are not conflicting goals.

And I can see his eyes.

From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.

I had left the thread before this sank in, and had to come back in to upvote. I agree, he is off limits again.

Old people like MTG and Boebert and Gaertz? /s

Agreed. For the Senate race, Katie Porter is the progressive choice, endorsed by Elizabeth Warren.

https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2024/02/07/katie-porter-is-the-progressive-choice/

Her competitor, Adam Schiff, is the old-school Nancy Pelosi choice. He has been running ads that boost the Republican Steve Garvey in an attempt to eliminate Porter from the race.

Sorry – it is a reference to Monty Python, where a father is trying to get his son to marry.

Edit: as one of your honorary fathers, I advise you to go watch the movie, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”

NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge … tracts of land!

And no singing!

So – I had to check that out, so that I can use it. Here’s a citation, or at least a corroboration:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-fred-rogers-evil/

Not since about 25 years ago. It was spun off from PepsiCo in 1997. And in fact it was not called Yum until sometime later than that – it was never Yum under PepsiCo.

Edit to add: I still don’t go there, of course.

What do non-Americans think it is?

I was sure that Buddy had done this, in “Elf”, but I looked it up and that had been maple syrup. This looks even better.

I wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?

Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.

That’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.

That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.

That’s a separate issue from pay scales. Quality of the courseware should be enforced by the institution regardless of pay rates.

But I am also curious, which campus is this?

Me too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer