I have a cold. I have what is disparagingly referred to by many women as a “man cold”. I assure you, the Man Cold is nothing to be mocked. Men are strong like bull, so any cold that lays us out must have been dropped off by Typhoid Mary herself. The Man Cold comes in…
Category: Ridiculousness
Does “the forest moon of Endor” mean “the forest moon named Endor” or “the forest moon orbiting Endor”?
I enjoy late-night nonsense. Last night’s nonsense was parsing Admiral Ackbar’s phrase “the forest moon of Endor” from Return of the Jedi. I asked Twitter whether Ackbar meant to refer to the moon as Endor or just indicate a moon orbiting Endor. Almost every single person who responded told me that Ackbar meant planet. I…
The Stages of Laundry
This was a terrible idea for a post. If you’ve read down this far, two sentences passed the title, then I’m not sure we can be friends anymore because you have no taste. Who in their right mind wants to read about laundry, much less a laundry list (har har) of the stages of the…