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The @EYnews report larded with #AI #hallucinations was on ... wait for it ... #fraud.

The colonist stares right back: ‘I didn’t say it.’ It’s like that. #forgive open.substack.com/pub/orthodoxic…

Oversexed-and-over-here utterly unperturbed: ‘I meant the other one.’ The Brit goes, ‘that’s my sister.’

According to WFB Jr, David Niven once told of two officers, Yank and Brit, in a hotel bar. Two women coming down the stairs. The American says, ‘that is the ugliest woman I have ever seen.’ The Brit replies, ‘that’s my wife.’

Walking tour of London with six odd #churches and the author of V for Vendetta. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

@Jimfrombaseball George Will thinks the ump walked purposefully into a decades-old joke?

"Once when the Yankee's Lou Piniella was batting , Piniella questioned Umpire Steve Palermo on a strike call. Lou Piniella demanded: "Where was that pitch at?" Steve Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Lou Piniella, no dummy said: "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?" George Will. "Three Baseball Boys" Joseph Francis Kernan, 1928.

@ChazzStark And will he battle the Russian mafia instead of Italian? Contemporary take on the loafer? Gretchen Corbett? After *Pig*, why not recurring character, least cameo.

It won't be an authentic Rockford Files reboot unless it's 6 seasons of a hungover David Boreanaz getting punched in the gut and stuffed into the trunk of his own car.

@OnlyInBOS Now do Dunkin. ; ) Fair cop, though ...

How Far They Are From Boston: Chilli's Grill & Bar - 6 Miles Away Buffalo Wild Wings - 9 Miles Away Dairy Queen - 9 Miles Away Pizza Hut - 9 Miles Away Sonic - 14 Miles Away Arby's - 39 Miles Away Love's Travel Stop - 74 Miles Away

@miles_commodore Trained in Tibet, I believe.

Do you remember in 1985 Sports Illustrated did an April Fools story about Sid Finch? In the article he had a 168 mph fastball.

@EthelMonticue @JacobRubashkin In the book and film of *Wise Blood*, at the beginning. Hazel misspells it in the movie.

@JacobRubashkin Has anyone ever seen "chifforobe" outside of To Kill a Mockingbird? My sister was breaking up old furniture to take to the dump; she texted me "I'm bustin' up a chifforobe, gimme a nickel"

The magic of 30 Rock is the insanely out of pocket To Kill a Mockingbird reference Baldwin gets in at 1:20. Blink and you’ll miss it, but the show gets a dozen of those off in every episode and once you pick up on it you can’t stop hearing them.

@benelli14597445 @KentMurphy Dunno all how this works, but I believe that though it's an expression of probability, the '1' time cd be the first, second, third ... &c. In the '1 in TK billion' construction, we imagine it coming after 74,999,999,999 misses, but it cd actually come at any point.

@KentMurphy If the odds are one in 75 billion, how has this even ever occurred?

The odds of someone hitting two grand slams in the same inning is basically 1 in 75869795847. In ‘99 Fernando Tatis Sr. did it. He’s the only one in baseball history to ever accomplish this feat

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.” Things only got more bizarre from there…

@mhp_guy You shd include a picture of the bridge

This guy makes six figures driving people across a bridge they're too scared to drive over themselves. He charges $40 cash. 10 to 30 clients a day. Some have been paying him daily for years. He meets them at a truck weigh station, hops in their car, drives them across in four minutes, and gets driven back by his assistant to do it again. The alternative route takes four hours through Baltimore. Here's what's wild... and possibly a little concerning: He said Airline pilots have used his service. His wife even makes custom eye masks that say "I hate this bridge." Steven Eskew has been running this business for years and has made tens of thousands of trips. I'll let you do that math. There's a business for everything. I promise you.

@MavrocksGirl Mennen menthol aftershave.

Tell you what... I will post the name of the cologne before the pilot airs ... Unless somebody guesses it! So far, nobody has it right 😕

[from Dec] An #Orthodox #monk-#fool in Midtown #Manhattan jordanorthodox.substack.com/p/nikolai-the-…

@Variety He looks OK ... Jimmy Rockfish wasn't svelte ... that's not the car — he's just walking past it. Why do they do this? I guess bec cheaper and they know we'll watch. Expenses lower, income higher. It's a business, right? 'swhat they'll always tell us, and we accept it.

FIRST LOOK: David Boreanaz reboots #TheRockfordFiles, premiering on NBC during midseason. wp.me/pc8uak-1lHfKc

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@For_Film_Fans Read once he literally didn't know who he was. Had been so many others, multiple people in same film, always acting, pretending, people demanding he be 'Peter Sellers doing ... ' and not just Peter Sellers.

- Peter Sellers - Yeah - Genius? - Yeah - Comic? - Yup - Genius? - Yeah - Dark side? - Crazy - Crazy? - Certifiable - Certifiable? - I think had he not been Peter Sellers he very likely could’ve ended up in an institution. Blake Edwards on a crazy genius.

@rogue185263 You drive past that and the kids are squalling in the back, and you say, 'Keep that up and you'll get sent there!'

The new Barack Obama Presidential Library is nearing completion After roughly $850 million dollars spent, this is what the finally project looks like and is expected to open in just a few months Schedule to open in June Kind of looks like a silo