Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

It’s a doggy dog world.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Bark louder, little dog.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

So many bastards, so little time.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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  5. 5.

    beltane

    What year was that? I have absolutely no memory whatsoever of this commercial and I was a tween/teenager during the 80’s.

  6. 6.

    RedKitten

    Nope — don’t remember that one, but it might not have aired here.

    But now I wish that Sour Cream and Onion Doritos still existed.

    I love ’80’s ads. I’ve been looking for one for months now. It’s from an Atlantic Canadian convenience store chain called “Green Gables”, and I can hear the jingle in my head and picture the ad just as plain as day. But of course, search for videos relating to “Green Gables” and you just get pages and pages of Megan Follows.

  7. 7.

    kid bitzer

    yup, i remember that one, john.

    jeebus–the internet is like the land of lost memories.

    some of which were better unfound.

  9. 9.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    @Incertus:

    “So Miller is saying that its beer is indistinguishable from piss?”

    Ye gods… apparently so.

    No doubt this ad campaign was dreamt up by the same folk who came up w/ the old ‘Country Crock/Shed Spread’ one.

  10. 10.

    conumbdrum

    I remember Avery Schreiber farting flames in his portrayal of a bad-guy neanderthal in the Ringo Starr comedy vehicle Caveman (a surprisingly fun little flick, by the way).

  13. 13.

    RedKitten

    @General Winfield Stuck: That dog looks like he knows all of the secrets of the universe.

    Oh, and for you SamKitten aficionados, we now have video! (No, he’s not doing a ton of stuff in the video — he’s only 4 months old, so there’s only so much he CAN do. You do get to see a few cute smiles, though.)

  14. 14.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @RedKitten:

    That dog looks like he knows all of the secrets of the universe.

    Don’t know about that, but he has figured out where I hide the bacon flavored Beggin’s./ The little scamp. :)

  16. 16.

    RedKitten

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Go easy on those Beggin’ Strips — they’re packed with sodium. Our old Lhasa had failed kidneys, and the vet was pretty emphatic in blaming the dog’s previous owner’s habit of giving him Beggin’ Strips on a regular basis.

  17. 17.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @RedKitten:

    Jeebus, I never thought of that, but it makes sense with bacon. Thanks for the tip, And Sam is a happy healthy little fella. You doin’ it right.

  18. 18.

    hamletta

    Speaking of sour cream ‘n’ onion dip, I made this last week for my office potluck, and it was Sofa King good. I licked the bowl afterwards.

  19. 19.

    Linkmeister

    Speaking of Doritos, those turkeys have stopped selling the plain ordinary toasted corn chips out here. I’ve been to three different grocery chains, the Navy commissary, several general drug stores and other food emporia and the plain ones are not to be found. I can’t stand the flavored ones when I make a taco salad, so Frito-Lay has lost me as a corn chip customer. I’m sure that breaks their hearts, but still…

  20. 20.

    Mike E

    @Linkmeister:
    Try Abuelita brand, sold at Costco, manu’ed in VA, 2 lb bag is good buy. If you are in or near VA they have two other lables: from Nana’s Cocina, and Casa de Carmen

  22. 22.

    Andy K

    @Linkmeister:

    Uhhhhmmmm….Tostitos?

    They’re both made by Frito-Lay. IIRC, when introduced, Tostitos came in both plain and nacho cheese. At some point, Frito-Lay just dumped flavored Tostitos and non-flavored Doritos.

  25. 25.

    Linkmeister

    @Andy K: Yeah, that’s what I’ve bought recently, because Tostitos suddenly brought out a yellow corn chip. Previously they’d only been selling white corn chips. I don’t like the flavor of those with my taco meat; somehow it doesn’t seem “authentic” to me not to use corn tortillas or a variation thereof.

  28. 28.

    Mustang Bobby

    I had the privilege of knowing Avery when I taught at his son’s school in California in the early 1980’s. He was a warm and loving man who knew more about theatre history than a lot of theatre scholars. His wife and family took me in as a member of the family during a personal crisis and I miss him a lot. Thanks, John, for the reminder of what a funny man he was.

  29. 29.

    BongCrosby

    I used to love Burns & Schreiber’s “Cab/Taxi” sketches, although 40-ish years later I’d be hard pressed to remember a single one.

    One of my favorite shows as a kid as “My Mother The Car,” a show TV Guide called “the second worst ever.” Avery Schreiber played the villain in that series. What’s really funny is that the guys who created and wrote “Mother” later created and wrote for shows such as Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Lou Grant, Room 222, Taxi and Barney Miller.

  30. 30.

    Mustang Bobby

    Oh, thanks, Bong; now I can’t get the theme song to “My Mother the Car” out of my head:

    “Ev’rbody knows in the second life we all come back sooner or later… as anything from a pussy-cat to a man-eatin’ alligator…”

    Make it stop….

  31. 31.

    I Was There, Man

    @beltane: You don’t remember it because this isn’t from the ’80s. It’s from the late ’60s, early ’70s at the latest.

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