I'm thinking you're giving Hanksy so much exposure here because you're hoping he'll do something pun-derful with the Neatorama staff... John FURRYer, MISSILEania... don't know what he'd do with your name, maybe Alex SanTORSO...
Why haven't the folks in San Diggy ever hauled the snow machine down to Comic-Con? That'd be great for a Game of Thrones panel "Winter is coming... oops, there it is"
In my radio youth in L.A., Gary Owens (Laugh-In announcer, original Space Ghost, Powdered Toast Man, voiceover on a million commercials, and L.A.'s most entertaining Afternoon DJ for over 20 years) staged the first ever Gurning Contest in Los Angeles (and one of the few ever sponsored by and live broadcast on a RADIO station). I think it was an offshoot of his efforts to champion every nonsense-sounding word in the English language and invent a few of his own. (He used "fnork" before anyone used "fnord")
Well, the whole concept of the Lead Character being a stable center in a vortex of craziness goes back to the early 1960's sitcoms... Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke both had their comedy chops underutilized (Van Dyke less so), everyone in Green Acres left Eddie Albert in a purely reactive role (even Arnold the Pig got more yuks), and Buddy Ebsen played the least wacky of the Beverly Hillbillies. Wasn't Shirley Jones intended to be the capital-S Star of Partridge Family? She was upstaged by the 'kids' just like Gabe Kaplan in Welcome Back Kotter (but as they say in Hollywood, never work with kids or animals). Bob Newhart always played the 'dull guy surrounded by crazy, funny people'. More recently, Ray Romano on Everybody Loves Raymond (you don't get interesting by being loved), Jason Bateman as "the one son who had no choice to keep the family together" on Arrested Development, and Frankie Muniz as Malcolm IN THE Middle (the vortex of crazy).
In ensemble dramas, the 'boss' frequently got top billing but rarely had the best story arcs: Daniel J. Travanti in Hill Street Blues, Ed Flanders on St. Elsewhere... you could even argue it for Patrick Stewart on Star Trek: The Next Generation until Captain Picard got 'Borged' at the end of season 3.
Looks like somebody gave you a quote book for your birthday, to which I can only reply in the immortal words of Douglas Adams: "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
Hey, you've been busy Having a Life. I've just been on Metafilter (under multiple identities) and noticing how the links from there were my posts. (but not keeping count)
Seriously, dude, using an "Oxymondias" quote so soon after the Breaking Bad episode of the same title? Is that suggesting the creator is some kind of 'Heisenburger'? (I was very uncertain about using that joke myself)
I'm not really not all that impressed by that Leaning Tower of Mac myself. Not after the true awesomeness that was The In-N-Out 100x100, which was actually made by In-N-Out, thanks to their 'unlimited add meat and cheese' policy (since rescinded). The 'McEverything' is nothing but a Sandwich Jenga, and cheating at that with the bamboo skewers.
If I were doing this (which I am NOT, please don't dare me), I would make it into a single megametamagnasandwich, discarding top or bottom buns (depending on where the cheese is glued to) and stacking it as a Big-Mac-esque 43-44-decker. Then, I would use some of the surplus buns to accommodate layers of french fries and McNuggets. And what about McWraps? I'd unwrap them and stack the contents, with tortillas overhanging. (Maybe McD's in Wisconsin doesn't have the California-esque wraps... in fact, I wonder if the local McD's has ALL those bun-bearing wiches on its menu). One more thing... I'd do it while the McRib is available and place it at the bottom, just because.
So for lack of REAL effort, the McEverything gets a C- from me... or MC-.
I had just assumed "deep fried soup" was invented at either an American State Fair or a Scottish Fish & Chips Shop (that Mars bar did start something...)
"the Fresno and Anaheim peppers -- both of which are about as hot as their namesake cities." As anyone who has lived in more than one part of California should know, Fresno IS hotter than Anaheim, although the awkwardly named Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim were pretty hot in 2002. (I could make jokes about Fresno all day; it really fits the "there's nothing there there" description made of many cities... including Cleveland which was my birthplace before my parents wisely moved me to California and Stouffer's -originally a Cleveland restaurant- went national with its frozen foods)
(this is too much quality information for an internet comment... I should be calling somebody a ***)
Perfect timing for me to link to my latest contribution to the mashup/deconstructionist comic "Square Root of Minus Garfield": "Garfield Meets Tardarsauce", because Garfield was being grumpy for decades before Tard.
Hmmmm... I was half-hoping somebody would take my idea and run with it, but now I'm starting to regret going public about it. Then again, nobody reads the comments down here, do they? I wonder if Staples still sells pocket protectors, and should I get an Opus or a more generic penguin?
In ensemble dramas, the 'boss' frequently got top billing but rarely had the best story arcs: Daniel J. Travanti in Hill Street Blues, Ed Flanders on St. Elsewhere... you could even argue it for Patrick Stewart on Star Trek: The Next Generation until Captain Picard got 'Borged' at the end of season 3.
I'm not really not all that impressed by that Leaning Tower of Mac myself. Not after the true awesomeness that was The In-N-Out 100x100, which was actually made by In-N-Out, thanks to their 'unlimited add meat and cheese' policy (since rescinded). The 'McEverything' is nothing but a Sandwich Jenga, and cheating at that with the bamboo skewers.
If I were doing this (which I am NOT, please don't dare me), I would make it into a single megametamagnasandwich, discarding top or bottom buns (depending on where the cheese is glued to) and stacking it as a Big-Mac-esque 43-44-decker. Then, I would use some of the surplus buns to accommodate layers of french fries and McNuggets. And what about McWraps? I'd unwrap them and stack the contents, with tortillas overhanging. (Maybe McD's in Wisconsin doesn't have the California-esque wraps... in fact, I wonder if the local McD's has ALL those bun-bearing wiches on its menu). One more thing... I'd do it while the McRib is available and place it at the bottom, just because.
So for lack of REAL effort, the McEverything gets a C- from me... or MC-.
(this is too much quality information for an internet comment... I should be calling somebody a ***)
It should be "Should Neatorama offer its READERS romance training?"