: "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."

#MaxEastman

#quotes #life

: "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you end your story."

#OrsonWelles

#quotes #life #movies #writing

: "The mob is the mother of tyrants."

#Diogenes

#OG

@stratkitten: Affirmative.

My problem this time was one inherited from the previous owner who was stupid, and it was undetectable by casual inspection.

I noticed it because of a small detail in the basement and on one side of the outside of the house.

: 'Tis Friday.

#CoSoFriday #weekend #mood

https://youtu.be/wkpnSn4B4v8

@QueenOfEverything: For my money, it's a "potato/potato" issue. They're identical, essentially, same as the old Aryan Brotherhood and the other WS gangs. Different jerseys, same everything else.

: Plumbing has been modernized here at the house. I am $7,200 lighter, but it's well worth it.

@AkomoCombine: Good.

@QueenOfEverything: The large egos were always the case, as was the xenophobia, corruption, and anti-federal and often anti-their-own-state beliefs. It was also quite often familial, as in local "royal families", as it were. I did research work for law school profs into the pre-Civil-War violence in Kentucky, Georgia, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania on the topic, and the thrust of their work was the straight line to what became known as "constitutional sheriffs" and the alt-white.

: The French title makes the film seem like it's maybe about a sauna or perhaps about some kind of sauce.

@QueenOfEverything: They want pre-Civil-War America back.

@awnaves: Too right.

@awnaves: Lilly's originally from Arkansas.

@AI78: Between Al-Qaeda and Y'all-Qaeda and their related, often overlapping causes, the West has its hands full.

: an oldie and one of my favorite memes ever, from ~2005

"Ode to Taco Bell and Spicy Foods"

an poem

#CoSoPoetry #highculture #classyAF

: when faux-Italians think their Italian food/recipe is more Italian than actual Italians' food/recipe because they think "Americans" can't cook "real Italian" food [like American non-Italians]

Folks often don't realize that immigrants make do with what ingredients their new countries have available, for the most part, and that things like recipes change over time.

Identity is weird and sometimes amusing.

#WaybackMachine @kismatt