FlashpointJ24
FlashpointJ24 t1_jdtqmp7 wrote
The CEO of IKEA was just elected president.
His first order of business is to assemble his cabinet.
FlashpointJ24 t1_jdhm9ai wrote
Reply to My wife was just in a minor accident. She's told the police that the man she hit was on his phone and drinking a Coke at the time by Gil-Gandel
>I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."
--Henny Youngman
FlashpointJ24 t1_ja9xj96 wrote
Reply to comment by GetToSreppin in How Martin Scorsese's 'The King of Comedy' Predicted the Future, 40 Years On by MsWrite
Someone said something similar about The Simpsons: it's not that the show predicted the future, it's just that we still have the same problems we had in the 80s because we haven't fixed any of them.
FlashpointJ24 t1_ja0viam wrote
Reply to Why is your pig missing a leg? by EganaU
I heard the punchline as, "By God, man, you don't eat a pig like that all at once!"
FlashpointJ24 t1_j9ques3 wrote
How much longer until someone suggests simply euthanizing foster kids, because it's cheaper for the state?
FlashpointJ24 t1_j9lphdq wrote
Reply to Rep. Eastman sparks outrage after asking about the potential economic benefits of the deaths of abused Alaska children by HoboWithAComputer
What a fucking ghoul. What's next, he wants to start putting down foster kids because it's good for the economy?
FlashpointJ24 t1_j8zqlkj wrote
Reply to Sidney Powell cited woman who claimed to be headless, time-traveling entity in email pushing election conspiracy theories by Oldkingcole225
That headline is a lot to unpack...
FlashpointJ24 t1_ix1lzyv wrote
Reply to comment by Apocrisiary in TIL after a seizure left him paralyzed except for his left eyelid, Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952-1997) wrote the bestselling book "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by blinking to select each letter as an assistant recited the alphabet to him. by chumloadio
Also the movie Johnny Got His Gun.
FlashpointJ24 t1_iuhk1o9 wrote
Reply to comment by IBeTrippin in TIL Peter Weller, who played RoboCop, went on to get his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History and wrote his dissertation about Renaissance artist/philosopher Leon Battista Alberti by kamyizme
"Work quietly, or there will be...trouble!"
FlashpointJ24 t1_jegva84 wrote
Reply to comment by qwerty-keyboard5000 in TIL A newborn baby is 75% water at birth. A slightly higher water content than bananas, but slightly less than potatoes. by Imbiberr
You'd also be 100% in jail.