july 20 in idea barrages

As a teenager, Richard Nixon was a carnival barker for the Slipper Gulch Rodeo, which served as a cover for an illegal gambling operation. (A) Yes, of course. (B) How did you all not call him “Slippery Dick” instead?

Bryan Adams was probably just racist on twitter in a shrewd move to make people remember that he and John Cougar-Mallowmar are in fact not the same person.

Only at 4 in the morning does googling “who taught hong kong phooey how to fight” seem like a reasonable course of action.

I hope that people who develop slightly new combinations of the five or six items at a given fast food joint are referred to as “dinnovators” whose fruits are called “dinnovations”.

A modern whimsical way to refer to your break-up would be “a recipe involving bae leaves”.

A female variant human barbarian who starts off with the Magic Initiate (Bard) feat so she has the vicious mockery & minor illusion cantrips & the feather fall spell so to fight in a cartoonish manner & is called Hannah Barbarian.

A phrase we need to make popular is “With All Due Disrespect to Elon Musk”.

Cold comfort of a kind, remember that these rituals you lost, spring weddings, big graduations, were only normal since the mid 20th century. What we thought eternal norms due to the ignorance of short lives were flukes in time at best.