Hey, I live in Florida. This suit is perfect.
“I was thinking of buying something immediately after landing a new job,” I told my wife.
“That sounds nice,” she said. “What are you going to buy?”
“A new suit.”
Not all of us (myself included) were schooled in the United States, so you may have heard Donald Trump’s reference to Andrew Jackson’s opinion on the U.S. Civil War and not considered it unusual (and hey, same goes for many people who were schooled in the U.S. and studied U.S. history). However, it is unusual for this simple reason:
Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States, died in 1845, a full 16 years before the Civil War, which started in 1861.
Here’s a CNN report featuring the recording of Trump’s statements, which were made during an interview with the Washington Examiner:
It’s one thing to make stuff up, and it’s another thing to make stuff up about things in an age where facts can easily be looked up. But it’s a completely bizarro thing to try and spin this mistake, as Republican communications strategist Paris Dennard did:
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I love you, chicken nuggets!
I don’t care about the original version of this comic — I’m going to simply accept the “chicken nuggets solve everything” adaptation as The One True Version.
Thanks to Gian for the find!
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Current situation: Ulele
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Both contain a lot of self-loathing. Maybe the first line of Pretty Hate Machine’s first track, Head Like a Hole, should now be “God sugar, I’ll do anything for you…”
And while we’re on the topic of Head Like a Hole…
Thanks to Sean Montgomery for the find!
Because this is the real world in 2017, this picture says “Here’s Joey, who spoke at last night’s GDG Sun Coast Meetup about Android and Augmented Reality, with John, who attended and won the draw for the new Kotlin in Action book.”
(Thanks for attending my presentation, John, and enjoy the book! Kotlin’s a pretty nice programming language.)
If this were the TV world in 1977, this picture would say “We just started our own detective agency…in Hawaii!”
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This isn’t the future we expected
And in case you needed some background information, read the Daily Beast article Neo-Nazis Are Tearing the Furry World Apart.
Based on a tweet by @Takahata101.