At least when “The Million Dollar Man” Ted Dibiase would bet a kid $500 that he couldn’t bounce a basketball ten times and then have his bodyguard knock the ball away after the ninth bounce, they actually gave the kid the money backstage afterward.
Oil company in Wisconsin said they had a “2 gal” spill, then they said it was “126 gallons”.
It was 70,000 gallons.
To be fair, I’m sure at first only 2 gallons spilled, then 126 gallons, before 70,000 spilled.
It’s possible that 2 gallons spilled in a split second, and seconds later it was up to 126…
It’s like if you told someone that you bet $15 at the casino. You neglect to mention that you bet $500 afterward, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t true.
Or in the words of Mitch Hedberg:
I’d give you that if they reported it in real time instead of 6 weeks, and a series of inspections, later.
I’m imagining Maxwell Smart reporting it.
“DNR? Enbridge here. We had a tiny spill… About… 2 gallons.”
“Wouldja believe 126 gallons…?”
“Okay it was around 70,000.”
“Missed it by that much.”
I nominate my next-door neighbor, though it is kind of dishwater stupid. Recently, he has taken to flying two flags on angled poles on his front porch. One is a red flag bearing a USMC device. The other would be described as “sable canton bearing array of fifty stars sable, a field of thirteen stripes alternating sable with sable” – IOW, it is solid black, but if you study it with backlighting, you can see the US flag.
Now, a black American flag can have a few meanings, but the one that seems to fit in this context, with the Marines flag beside it, is “no quarter”. He seems to be declaring, “I am a badass, don’t fuck with me or I will kill you.” It is possible that he is concerned about MAGAts running wild (not entirely without justification, IMO, though this is a quiet-ish neighborhood), but standing up and declaring your badassness strikes me as utter folly. He is attracting unwarranted attention to himself. I guess people who think they are badasses do that.
I think it is the opposite. He’s a Trump cultist.
“I am a pirate”, perhaps?
Perhaps you could recruit a crew of stern, husky gentlemen to seize his vessel by force of arms and bring a claim against it in Prize Court.
He does not really behave like that, though. He was not showing signs of celebrating the election (there were a few distant fireworks shot off election night, but not him. And, he has a Chevy Bolt EV, which does not seem particularly MAGAty. I think he is just a guy, not really aligned one way or the other.
Flying an all-black American flag is certainly intended to convey some message. Have you thought of asking him what that is?
People who want to signal to others they’re badasses.
The black American flag is a sign of resistance against the government. If he’s not MAGA, then he doesn’t know what he’s proclaiming.
A desire to abolish democracy and replace it with a ninjaocracy… Shadowy assassins from Japan run everything from the shadows.
This reminds me of an old episode of The Carol Burnett Show in which the cast were all singing the national anthem of a country composed solely of the border lines as seen on maps. The anthem referred to the flag as “White, white, and white”.
He only first put it up about a week ago – a MAGAt would have been flying it all year long. It is possible he is disenchanted with how things are trending.
I had to flip a coin to decide which omnibus thread to put this story on Yahoo in.
Prankster arrested after reportedly filming himself spraying food at Walmart: ‘Reckless’
I’ve seen such stories in the news a few times in the last couple of years, but this bit takes the cake.
A prankster was recently arrested and charged after allegedly spraying bug killer on food in an Arizona Walmart, police say.
BUG KILLER?!
Yep, bug killer. And that brought some serious charges to this “prank”.
Charles Smith, 27, was charged with felony-level poisoning and misdemeanor-level criminal damage, in addition to misdemeanor charges of endangerment and theft. The Mesa Police Department confirmed the arrest in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Have fun explaining away the conviction for poisoning when you get your next job interview, genius.
If he’s not MAGA, maybe he intends to resist the incoming MAGA government.
I think that we, at any rate, don’t know what he’s proclaiming.
Isn’t the ‘thin blue line’ flag mostly black and white? Yeah. It only has one blue line, that might not show if it was hanging diagonally.
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