L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer. He made a bet with another science fiction writer that he could get rich quicker by starting a fake religion, and collecting tithes, than he could selling science fiction stories. Scientology is the resulting pyramid scheme/ cult.

Crossbows come equipped with Hollywood style “silencers.”

Bailout was under Bush. Obama could have reversed course a few months later when he was sworn in, but I’m pretty sure that would have caused an even worse economic disaster.

Once you are moved out, and across the country, the song Cat’s in the Cradle, by Harry Chapin gives you the perfect believable excuse. I’d love to come visit, and I will once work isn’t riding me so much. We’ll get together then.

You watched The Terminal, didn’t you?

/s

https://youtu.be/PfsTk5i7mPw

There’s a mod for Factorio that adds these in for use in our circuit spaghetti

https://www.cracked.com/blog/how-90s-pop-band-secretly-sold-nazism-to-america

That was my first exposure to the theory, I’ve never been able to confirm nor deny it conclusively, especially since cracked.com back in those times was only mostly satire. Like 99% of the pieces were satire, and then they’d publish something that wasn’t satire, and this could be a good example of that. Either way, I bought their CD way back when.

"It won’t stop, I won’t come down

I keep stock with the tick-tock rhythm

I bump for the drop, and then I bumped up

I took the hit that I was given, then I bumped again

Then I bumped again"

That entire verse, but honestly rereading the lyrics, I’m amazed that got radio play in the Bible belt. I know it did, because I heard it uncensored in southeastern Indiana.

Fun fact: Semi Charmed Kinda Life made it into a late '90s Disney film about surfers. They didn’t even bleep anything because, I assume, they couldn’t understand what he was singing.

Oh, no. We make an exception for Canadians. We know that if you stop being polite, Geneva is going to have to cut down a forest to write new regulations.

Yes he did. Sherman stopped before he hung the traitorous leadership.

Unless I’m drinking alcohol, it’s all water all the time. I have a half gallon thermal mug that I keep filled with ice water. I’ll go through 2-5 a day depending on the heat.

Stupid Sexy Taxy Flanders

Is Google fighting itself? Seems like the Android dev team is almost literally indirectly addressing the issues that the Chromium and App Store dev teams just created.

Peter Jackson releases the ultra-extended 176 hour cut of Lord of the Rings.

Get tested early. Your mother’s dementia may not have been found till late stage. We have treatments for the earlier stages

You’re not OP, and only two of the characters appear to be what is displayed.

What you seem to have linked are the words, “first release”, but I’m uncertain if the characters for “first” are even depicted in the picture.

Edit: You are correct. I’m the luckiest bastard ever.

So your post title is “Here we go”(?)

What does the kanji say under Windows 7? Is it just kanji for “Windows 7?”

Animal Abuse! That chain needs to be at least 50% thicker so he can feel stylish with his doggy buddies.