Defined as “the amount of an alcoholic drink (such as cognac, brandy, or whiskey) that is lost to evaporation when the liquid is being aged in porous oak barrels.”
I guess I kind of get where Arlo’s going here, but…
Category / Bill Bickel
Wall
Maybe not that day but yeah, at the end, the wall probably will be put on sale.
And even if, for some reason, this specific wall in this specific store won’t, it’s hardly a “weird offer,” as I’d expect somebody who worked in retail (or who ever saw a going-out-of-business sale) to know.
Mystery Solved
Friday Afternoon Bonus Oy
[OT] Darkest Hour
If you’re going to make a movie about Winston Churchill, and you want to fictionalize and trivialize the most important decision he made in his life, one of the pivotal decisions of the twentieth century… then just call the movie fiction, rename the character Wallace Birchill, and have at it.
(It’s safe to assume that the comments section will contain spoilers for the film, if that’s relevant in this case; I always err on the side of extreme caution)
Computer Synchronicity
Submitted by Mike Kruger:
This was sent to me as an LOL; on the other hand, though…
… at least they got it right: if test results I’ve seen are to be believed, a person’s ancestry is very close to random. Which I suspect it is not.
My brother, according to his, has an ancestry entirely different from mine (and no, we didn’t even have a milkman when he was born), while his wife’s is more similar to mine (and no, we are not from the hills of West Virginia).
Okay, so, the current template…
Not fancy, but it has a sidebar while allowing sufficient space for the comics to display. Amazing how many templates do one but not both.
I don’t see any major problems, yet
Hiding Art [an OT rant, sorry]
In anticipation of a trip to Chicago, I looked into ten paintings the Art Institute owns that I particularly wanted to see. Of these ten, FIVE are either “not currently on display” or in a gallery that’s “currently closed.”
The Charles Addams Mother Goose
The Charles Addams comic was accompanied by this comment:
The Charles Addams Mother Goose is pretty much what you’d expect, a macabre take on some traditional nursery rhymes. So what I’m wondering is… What’s the market for this thing? Amazon claims it’s for kids between the ages of 4 and 8, but I’m not sure I’d have given my kids this book when they were 4 (and my kids were hardly sheltered; my younger son, when he was 5, asked me to explain to him the difference between murder and manslaughter) — and a kid old enough to deal with Jack Sprat and his wife being portrayed as cannibals, without several episodes of nightmares, probably wouldn’t be caught dead reading a Mother Goose book even with subversive illustrations.
Just for the record, though (speaking of subversive children’s books), every preschooler should own The Z Was Zapped (the link has been updated)— and I’ve personally made sure that most of my nieces and nephews had theirs.
Comics I Don't Understand 