Scott

“wait a minute…this lesbian bar doesn’t have a fire exit!” is one of the all time simpsons jokes. god dude y’all ever heard about this show. i guess if you watched this every night for years and also read a fuckload of terry pratchett books as a child it would probably shape the way you think about humor forever or something like that

ITT post your favorite simpsons or terry pratchett jokes. sorry if this takes off and it clogs up your timeline but the nice thing is you can silence this post rather than writing a bitchy little complaint about it merely because you refuse to engage with a basic feature of the website. yes i’m feeling kinda punchy why do you ask. anyway my other favorite one is hank scorpio’s “sorry it’s not in packages.” little obvious but it’s really good

I'm so bad at coming up with these on the spot but I do dearly love "I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right!"

As kids/teens, my brother and I would read the Discworld novels voraciously, especially when traveling (which we did a lot) and would often show our parents the best pages or jokes.

My mom's favorite has always been,

The detritus of the night rolled through the gutters, some of it protesting feebly.

I have many favorite moments, but I will always remember the favorite of my late dad, who didn't watch the Simpsons:

(silly voice) "Hello, my name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have a letter for me."

Alll right Mr. Burns what's your first name.

"..."

...

(same silly voice) "I don't know!"

how do you even choose a favorite Phil Hartman joke from The Simpsons tbh

babe, it's the only thing it's okay to write about

So there's an adage in computer science, it comes from Fred Brooks and his very important book The Mythical Man-Month. I think of it as "Brooks's Other Law" ("Brooks's Law" being the more famous dictum, "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."): regarding building pilot or prototype versions of complex systems, he writes, "plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow." That is, if you dive right in to building what you intend to be your production system, you will make all kinds of mistakes, and instead of noting them for next time and moving on, you will have to cobble together solutions in-place, and by the end either you'll have Ship-of-Theseus'ed the whole thing or it will simply be unfixable and you'll have to start over. If you plan to build one to throw away from the start, you'll end up having done the same or less work, and you'll have an equivalent or better end result.

All of which to say: perhaps it's the case that whatever your conscious intention when you set out on a writing project, one way or another, whether by unconscious obsession, conscious inclusion, or conspicuously deliberate avoidance, you will, anyhow.

Imagine Dragons - Children of the Sky (a Starfield song)

by Bethesda Softworks

I find "Imagine Dragons - Children of the Sky (a Starfield song), by Bethesda Softworks" so hilarious, but god help me, I do.

Imagine Dragons - Children of the Sky (a Starfield song)

by Bethesda Softworks