Thus showing the Trump presidency is the sovcit version of politics.
…that’d be the asphyxiation part.
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What are they teaching these kids? In my stint at the London School of Economics, the first week was cost/benefit analysis of The Big Heist.
Now, the LSoE is adamant that the kid should’ve rounded up a decent Caper Crew: a Kasparov and a Cleric for planning, a Shifty Grifter and a Missus Doubtfire to get the ball rolling; and on the big day, at least two Schwarzeneggers, an Inspector Gadget, a first-rate Hacker-Cracker, and then, for the getaway, a Popeye Doyle and a Mary Poppins.
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I have classmates who are still doing time from a botched mid-term.
Actually, I didn’t know that, but it makes me laugh! George and Brad and Co. probably based their laundry list of “heist team nicknames” on the same vintage British humor I did…
Yanno, that is a really remarkably great explanation of the trump phenomenon.
Thank you. The scales have fallen from my eyes.
It pretty much is that kind of world-view, isn’t it? The magatoflatearthers don’t care about such niceties as facts, science, or laws. All they care about is what they want to be true. In their flateartheresque minds, what they want to be true automatically is true. And only those damn libtards are indoctrinating people away from the truth. And finally, judges are slamming the magatoflatearthers into prison for multiple years for acting on those magatoflatearther inanity.
^^^ This. ^^^
I read somewhere (possibly the trivia section on IMDb) that all of those things referred to actual elements of the con that they ran. The “two Jethros” are the Malloy brothers. “Ella Fitzgerald” refers to the “is it live or is it Memorex” commercial she did; that’s the fake vault and video they use to convince Terry Benedict that he’s being robbed. I don’t remember the others.
The only part that surprised me was the guy’s name Porntip.
Of course I knew how Carradine died, I was the one who brought the cite into the thread. I just hadn’t noticed that name in my own cite.
Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know;
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two –
Something noble and grand and good,
Won by merely wishing we could.
Woman’s name.
“…and in exchange, the diocese received Archbishop Michael Flanders and a pedophile to be named later.”
I didn’t read the article since I already knew about the autoerotic asphyxiation back in 2009… So I just assumed Porntip was a website.
I admit I laughed for real at that one.
Well played Good Sir!!
Honestly, I only looked it up because the name caught my attention. However, she seems to be rather famous in her country, even having a wax figure at Madame Tussauds.
Silicone would be more appropriate.
More National Park shenanigans: Porsche driver faces jail time after going off-road in Death Valley
The National Park Service says that two men drove their rented Porsche SUV into the mud…The men were headed toward a salt flat 2 miles from Badwater Basin, but only made it about 200 yards from the designated road before they got stuck. Instead of following directions and waiting for the park service to supervise the rescue, the men allegedly hired a pickup driver to remove their vehicles. The pickup ended up with the same fate as the Porsche SUV.
C’mon, people. Yes, we all know that transliterated versions of names from other languages, including the perfectly normal Thai girls’ name transcribed as “Porntip” or “Pornthip”, sometimes seem funny or stupid in English.
Your own given name doubtless seems equally funny or stupid in several languages that you don’t know. And if you encountered people who did know them, you would probably quickly get tired of jokes about your being called “goose excrement” or whatever your name means in that language.
Except I didn’t know it was a person’s name.
My own real life last name caused me no end of Hell growing up even in English so…
