Occasionally, maybe once per paragraph, misspell a word intensionally. Your family, knowing how carefully you used to profread your own writing, will notice this as abnormal behavior. Either you captors have already damaged your menial health or you are trying to conceal a message. Gards reading you letters before posting them may be more used to bad writing among their detaines and not suspect anything deeper. Your family might reply using the same code, both acknowledging receipt of your coded message, and perhaps including a key for a more secure one.

The anal sex sense of the term buggery is etymologically related to the Bulgarian people. I think because Christian Europeans named a deviant sex act after their heathen neighbors who allegedly practiced it, but it might have been the other way around.

That’s strange, I thought you people would use kilometres for that? Anyway, I checked it out too and amazingly, she’s also exactly 9 miles away from me, even though I’m in Tennessee.

Q: What happened when the smartest Texan moved to Oklahoma?

A: It lowered the average IQ of both states.

Luigi Mangione tried, convicted of murder, and sentenced to life in prison. (I lose if no trial occurs in 2025, whether due to plea deals, procedural delays, or he gets Epsteined. I also lose if either NY or federal trial results in either acquittal or hung jury.)

That’s an invaluable lesson.

I can make the Vulcan “live long and prosper” sign, but only with my left hand.

Local news is reporting the shooter and one victim are dead. The other victim was grazed in the arm and is in stable condition.

I don’t know. James Upham is credited with inventing the Bellamy salute and may have been inspired by the Roman Empire, or more likely by contemporary portrayals of it. Anyway, by 1930, nobody was heiling Caesar that way, but the salute was in use by American schoolchildren. On that basis, I stand by the claim that the Nazis stole it, directly or indirectly, from either the US, the Roman Empire, or Mussolini’s Italy. It’s a kind of cultural appropriation I find more palatable when done by people who don’t then proceed to violently annex most of Europe.

The Bellamy salute was invented in the United States for peaceful purposes. The Nazis stole it (as they did with the swastika and the term Aryan) and applied it to evil. As Nazi symbols, they became more strongly associated with the humanitarian atrocities of that regime than with their original meanings, to the extent that decent people hesitate to use them anymore.

There’s no technical reason why you couldn’t. It’s probably just some stupid marketing reason like:

• A. Monster doesn’t want to sell its concentrate this way.
• B. They do, but not at a price that would justify including it as an option among other common self serve beverages.
• C. Stores don’t want to offer unlimited access to dangerously high levels of caffeine after a Panera customer with a pre-existing heart condition drank about a gallon of caffeinated lemonade and then dropped dead in the dining room.

What better way to honor the reverend’s legacy than by bulldozing some poors.

You just listed a bunch of mammals, not a representative sample of predators. You think lobsters and spiders are cuter than cuter than deer and koalas?

edit: oops, 4 mammals and a bird

Knowing what little I know about the fine art market, he can probably have the ashes authenticated and sold for a profit.

I’ve been to the Electric Fetus (Duluth). It’s not quite as weird as the name suggests.

I think you can get away with just about anything, so long as it doesn’t piss off anyone with a bigger navy than you own.

The least precision expressed on my monthly utility bills is 1000 gallons. Usually I either get rounded down to 0 or up to 1000 Gal. Check your bill again and find out what sort of units apply to 13 and 24 – it isn’t gallons/month.

Yes. I didn’t like it.

The pedestrian crossing looks Australian, in which case the price is per litre.