Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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5·6 hours agoA paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?
2·3 days agoPirate King: HE DID?!? … oh… oh, yes so he did… I was there.
5·3 days agoNow wait a second. I don’t think Quark ever sold shoddy merchandise. Overpriced? Sure! Stolen? Probably! Contraband? Absolutely! But low quality merchandise doesn’t breed customer loyalty. It doesn’t generate repeat business.
Remember the 57th rule of acquisition: Good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them.
Who grades the test? Who judges the competition?
The true captain will give up the chair rather than see it cut in half.
There are three things you need to remember as a starship captain: 1) keep your shirt tucked in; 2) go down with the ship; and 3) detailed knowledge of ornithology.
Replacement panel 4: “Surely, you can’t be serious?”
New panel 5: “I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley”
Gotta be Phantom of the Paradise. It’s a rock opera and spiritual successor to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The story is a mix of Faust, the Picture of Dorian Grey, and Phantom of the Opera, set at a nightclub called the Paradise.
God dammit Loch Ness monster, I ain’t gonna give you no tree fiddy.
31·23 days agoHalley is the one who predicted its return mathematically. I’d say that’s more significant than seeing it twice in one lifetime and supposing that it’s the same comet.
27·23 days agoSorry, I lost the world’s smallest violin. This is the best I can do: 🖕
Homer, give him what he wants!
spoiler
Mr. Burns cuts off beer after Homer refuses to give him Bobo. Barney reacts in character.
After he finished, [official scribe Jacob] Shallus had to deal with several mistakes that he had made during that rushed weekend of exacting labor. […] But he also used a penknife to scrape away an entire line of text near the bottom of page one, leaving behind a roughed-up band that now appears gray from grime.
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/fall/const-errors.html
So it would seem to have been a transcription error that was scraped off.
Makes sense that he’d use an antique.
What, am I meeting the Pope or something?