WAIT...that masterpiece was an accident?

During the Spanish American War (~1898), the US government added a "temporary" tax on these newfangled telephone things that only rich folks had. It was just to fund that war effort. After the war, it grew into a tax on "communications services."

I had thought it was finally repealed 15 years ago, but in looking up the details to avoid providing bad info, I found that:
"On January 25, 2011, Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduced H.R. 428, a bill "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on telephone and other communications services"; it was referred to the House Ways and Means Committee,[33] but was not enacted."

We can't even get "everyone to just" do the rock bottom basics, like not steal from stores...shoot, we can't even get "everyone to just" agree that it's wrong to steal non-necessities and that it should result in arrest/prosecution.

My experience observing the generation older than I am and the generation younger is that "the grandkids" don't want 90% of those "treasures." Even a really nice, solid, beautiful cabinet like the one shown is too heavy and too big.

-The government is terrible
-Let's give the government more control and be the sole provider of more things.

That pie is round. I had heard that pies are squared.

This is a much better way to help the environment than to travel many miles by car to glue your hand to a road.

Amazing progress. Your blood pressure is probably much better, as is your A1C. There are things that start occurring in your 50s that will be MUCH better because of the improvements you're making today. Keep it up.

I can just imagine the letter that the Aquarium got:
"Now, I'm not writing to you because *I'M* offended, but I'm just thinking about the feelings of OTHER people who might find that language offensive..."

I can only dream of being that smooov.

Am I the only person whose mind added in the low whistling sound that usually goes with that tongue shape?

A roadside rest stop along a tollway I used to drive had stalls whose walls went from a foot above the floor to about four feet above the floor. IOW, you got to make eye contact with anyone sitting on a toilet. I heard it was because the state was worried about people doing drugs in the stalls, but that doesn't completely ring true.

The problems I see are not the one(s) that OP sees:
-Should be vanilla ice cream and not Cool Whip
-Nothing on the chocolate cake.

Why are people being criticized for doing what they want to (nothing) on their birthday, by people who are disappointed that the birthday boy didn't pick something *she* wanted to do??

In the '80s and '90s, a 4.5% inflation rate was baked into our thinking. That is, if you didn't get at least that much of a raise, you were losing ground in purchasing power. It wasn't 'til the 2000's that people got used to 3% inflation.

Countersuit? Only worth it if she has anything worth suing for. Some people are "judgment-proof."

Data entry clerks get paid for typing.
People in some other kinds of work get paid for thinking.
I hate to think how many times someone stuck their head into my cubicle and saw me looking at a CAD rendering of a part I was designing. Or looking at an equation in a spreadhseet thinking through the IF/THEN hierarchy.

Snoop Dog with Doggie Daddy.

Trivia: Checkmate comes from Shah Mat, Persian for "the king is dead."