The Dumbell Prize for Addition.
- No one knows that “dumb” has a b, so dumbbell will henceforth be spelled “dumbell” in recognition of our Stable Genius winning the inaugural prize.
We all know that at some point during this administration, somebody had to explain to Donald Trump what happened in the year 1776 and why there was a celebration scheduled for July 4th.
Oh, so they explained the anniversary of the Continental Army taking the airfields?
The current administration now feels it’s necessary to warn visitors that the Smithsonian is woke.
The Trump Administration says it is preparing a dozen signs for its Washington, D.C., museum sites that will warn visitors about the Smithsonian Institution in general, and the National Museum of American History in particular.
The signs, which the administration says are temporary, will be placed on National Park Service land and will reflect President Trump’s July executive order, called “Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution.”
The Sept. 3 letter from Burgum outlines several grievances, including that Anthea Hartig, the director of the American History museum, “has stated that history is ‘a prime tool of social justice’,” and that the museum seeks “to legitimize illegal immigration and open borders.” It charges that several exhibits “present ideological viewpoints inconsistent with biology, including ideologies that sex is not binary.”
Link from NPR
Easy Peasy: Every S i’s s’eparated by an apos’trophe.
Oh! You wanted an accurate one. Well, then.
I think he misunderstood what, “Bless your heart,” meant.
Um, apo’strophe’s alway’s go in front of e’s’se’s
Methinks it would be interesting to speculate that if the original proposal had been, say $1,780, whether 45/47 would have responded ‘Wait a minute, for $4 less, it’s $1,776,’ which is pretty good.”
That’s a unique
speculation!
I say there’s now way in hell Trump thinks of that.
Ha!!!
‘But Sir, what shall we do with all the extra $4?’
‘Have you seen Superman III? No? Then this might come as a surprise.’
Context?
How about Office Space?
Richard Pryor plays a computer guy who notices that everyone’s pay was rounded down to the nearest cent. He writes a program that takes all those 0.1 cents and adds them to his own pay cheque. Lex Luthor is both horrified and impressed and hires him.
Those guys mention it’s the Superman III plot in “Office Space” itself.
Not Lex Luthor (they couldn’t get Gene Hackman and using the same villain 3 times in a row gets a bit stale. Also Luthor is too egocentric to be impressed by anybody else’s intelligence) but some generic evil capitalist type using computers to take over the world…hmm, maybe it wasn’t mediocre but simply ahead of its time.
I’m sure it was. I clearly remember watching this film when the ‘Breaking News’ flashed up about Nelson Mandela dying in prison.
(Good catch though. Thanks!)
The “Rounding Error” fraud (AKA “Salami Slicing”) long predates the movie Superman III (1983). I’m pretty sure I heard of it before then. Superman III and Office Space certainly helped to popularize the idea. Lots of classic scams end up being used in stories and movies simply because they’re time-tested and interesting.
Wait, what about Mandela dying in prison?
Edit: nvm, just got it. I need to drink coffee before posting
An ‘s’ alone is more than one.
Apostrophes possess the ‘s’.
What about words with a double ‘s’? Can you use quotation marks to save keystrokes?
Acce’s"s’?
If only it was so easy, but English is very complicated; it’s a language that has trouble keeping its rules consistent.