I’d like to imagine they took the short trivia fact and applied the inverse of the compression algorithm to bloat it into something that satisfied the editor.

As absolutely stupid as this is, it’s no different than changing the maps to show Denali rather than Mount McKinley. I don’t think you’re missing anything.

Bill in dollars and you’re going Far far away? Lol not without your car

Birth rates dropped hard at the '07-'08 recession, so the smaller cohort of HS grads arrives soon.

It’s also going to tank college enrollments and is likely to sink a bunch of smaller, less endowed institutions.

Read them all, with the novellas where the tin says they belong. It’s just unrelentingly good.

Spud Webb - 5’6", won the 1986 NBA dunk contest

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_Webb

Close. You don’t add liquid and flour. You brown the meat, and render out fat. It’s vital to have a couple tablespoons of liquid fat in the pan. If you don’t get enough from the sausage, augment with a bit of butter or oil. Heat around medium.

Then sprinkle in flour, about equal in volume to the liquid fat, and stir. You gently fry the flour in the oil to cook off the raw flour flavor. It’ll go from white to about sand color. If your proportions are right it will look a bit like wet sand, and will smell like roasted nuts a bit.

Now slowly stir in cold milk while whisking gently to mix and prevent lumps. Scrape the bottom to deglaze any browned on flecks of meat. You want to heat it to just bubbling not to scorch the milk. It’ll thicken up.

Then grind a bunch of pepper in to finish it off, and pour over biscuits, fried taters, or whatever.

All gravy works this way, pretty much. Gravy for turkey? Replace the milk with poultry stock. Gravy for steak? Beef stock it is.

Bad Santa. It’s cynical and hilarious and still ends up weirdly heartwarming.

You can’t go wrong with “they’re made of meat”, or “when the yogurt took over” ( warning, boring boobs for like 2.5 seconds).

https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ?si=9_jCNLRr_4KSfw77

https://youtu.be/lOpvxj_FRN0?si=Aa5_mwVvkrTxWMDb

Also: The World of Tomorrow is top tier scifi.

https://youtu.be/lOpvxj_FRN0?si=Aa5_mwVvkrTxWMDb

Before you pull the trigger on this one, figure out whether your daughter is of an age to understand why the tax agent has butt plug trophies. Not just because it could lead to awkward conversation, but also because if your kid doesn’t have the maturity to grasp that visual pun they won’t get the rest of the movie either.

It’s not so much two infants irrationally arguing. Israel has owned some of this land for three generations. So the folks living there have passed it down as long as they’ve been alive. But another group owned it first, and the oldest among them remember the days before the occupiers came.

It’s like if the Cherokee decided to go full on guerrila warfare in the 1940s. Would they maybe have a point? How would it square with folks that had already been there for 80 years? It’s the settlers generational home now, too. Everyone has legitimate greivances. It’s not about settling tantrums, it’s about mediating between people that have legitimate but mutually exclusive claims.

It’s loss. https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

Such an insightful commentary on the importance of the social contract and the irreplacibility of the individual. The only way forward is to share our personal experiences and strive for understanding. Once we know each other’s value, we will never surrender our common bonds, disappoint one another, go behind each other’s backs, nor do each other harm.

Well, it’s based on the books to about the same degree as “Starship Troopers” was based on its book. Not that this should stop you from enjoying it.

A great book, but it certainly includes a lot of invented vocabulary to deal with, and the reader is expected to just roll with it and sort the vocabulary out on their own.