I'm pretty sure my neighbor is an Indiana University fan and her husband is an Ohio State fan. I mean, there are red flags.

Those idiots didn't know he was *Master Chief* Halo, who had to find the ring, etc.

"Hello, God? Ahhh yes. I have a $10,000,000 (Ten Million USD) treasure which we cannot now spend due to the political situation in my country, and I will share with you if you will but give me your bank account number to facilitate the transfer..."

Attempted to put a cat in the state of "plasma," but only succeeded in achieving the "gaseous" state.

Grolak: So, some humans organize themselves into a fantastically loyal one-direction symbiotes, and they become happier or sadder depending on the results of a game of skill.
Blorgdork: Yeah, we know. They paid to attend the same educational institute, and their loyalty is placed there.
Grolak: No...not even. For some reason, people who were never even *in* the city which is the home to that "university" adopt that characteristic. Have you used the viewer to observe the Indiana group participate in the game of bouncing-sphere-in-net? Or the Notre Dame squadron participate in the running-and-kicking-oval-ball activity?

Having designed certain products, sure there were cheaper ways to do it. BUT...the specification required the product to work after five minutes immersion under 10 inches of water, work after exposure to a salt water mist and subsequent drying, a drop onto concrete from a height of 45 inches, and rigorous testing and statistical analysis to show that the validation testing would meet the specs (only some listed above) over a 15 year life. Under life-or-death battle conditions after years of use, I hope that X-Box controller still works.

A hippopotamus
Bit my bottomus.

There's an entire genre of...errr..."Japanese Literature" devoted to that...

"I lied to her bout something. How can I dig this hole even deeper?"

I think about that every time someone lies to impress a potential date...if the relationship starts going anywhere, then at some point you have to admit that there was a big lie at the beginning, and maybe even that was the initial attraction which means the relationship was FOUNDED on a lie. Or, the relationship goes nowhere and there was no reason to lie in the first place.

Think about George Costanza claiming to be a Marine Biologist.

What a jerk. I hope the authorities don't come over and rub him out. But maybe from his point of view, it can't be beat.

Arguing with someone at my 120th birthday part over how I got that old in perfect health with complete mobility, where the other guy is saying it's thanks to my vast wealth, and me saying it was thanks to the prodigious amount of bourbon and beer I could consume.

Doubly appropriate, because that's the generation where EVRYBODY is an All-Star.

1. Pretty creepy, so he's lucky to have gotten outta there.
2. You'd think a journalist would know that there are some thoughts you can have, but you shouldn't put in writing, and you REALLY shouldn't make available publicly.

If you wouldn't discourage a daughter from liking tractors, and even encourage that, isn't it sexist to *not* encourage your son to like whatever he gravitates to?

Weird scenes inside the gold mine.

I noticed that once the kids bought their own bags of snacks, I didn't have to remind them to seal up the bag so that they didn't get stale.

I see a lot of what's tagged as "anti-science" as actually being "anti-bad-science."

Example--"Global Warming has been *proven*." Well, "scientific proof" requires experimental confirmation, which can't happen. The same with evolution.

We may believe that science "indicates" some conclusion, but we often used "proved" incorrectly. That opens the door to an argument about the scientific method and not about the thing that was the original topic. It also doesn't help that we hear "trust the science" from someone who earlier or later doesn't go by the science but by emotion. For example, Kamala Harris said that she would never take a COVID vaccine during the previous administration, but was on the side of forced vaccinations under her own administration.

Several of those could each be covered in an article (in a magazine, or online)...and are!

Taxes: Get all the documents showing how much money you got last year, add the amounts on the appropriate lines on the form as directed by that form. Notice how things work "at the margin," that is, you may have paid 8% in taxes but the last dollar you earned might have been taxed at 24%. Also, there's a list of things that give you a tax deduction now (IRA, 403b, 401k) and some that you pay taxes on now but whose growth is tax free later (Roth). Some things are taxed at a lower rate (capital gains vs. earned income). There's a LOT more to know, but it wouldn't be covered in a high school class (Real Estate, small business).

Money Management: Step 1: Spend less than you earn. The rest doesn't matter if you can never tell yourself "no" to buying stuff that "you deserve."

Credit Rating: Pay all debts, pay them on time, paying interest does not improve your rating.

No class needed!

That employee...uhhhh...finds a way.