ChickenLadyLovesLife

In The Blues Brothers, the heroes drove a bunch of nazis into a river while declaring "I hate Illinois Nazis" and nobody batted an eye. In my youth, I thought that meant their ideology had been permanently placed in the realm of the pathetic joke. I never imagined they could crawl back out from underneath their rocks like they have.

Washing the literal chicken shit off of mushrooms does not make them absorb water.

Seriously, wash your fucking mushrooms.

If you're the 12th US President Zachary Taylor, you could always die from eating too much fruit and milk (true story).

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe this was from an era when the artist typically never touched the stone or the tools himself (and rarely herself). Very skilled craftsmen did all the actual sculpting, under the direction of the artist. Source: Antiques Roadshow (possibly misremembered).

Ancients of Mu Mu!

It was Yes ("Going for the One") for me. Led Zeppelin was for the burnouts!

I bought my first album in 1977 for $7, which is $37 in today's money. It's pretty insane to think that the entire music industry back then was about getting people to pay $37 for a piece of plastic. Avocado toast eat your heart out.

I have severe osteoarthritis in one knee and one shoulder. As of right now, I'm still able to bicycle 25-50 miles a day, but I'm terrified of eventually reaching a point where I can't do any sort of cardiovascular exercise. I know that I'm going to swell up and die in a very short time.

I think you really only get an "endorphin rush" when you're just starting with exercise and you over-exert yourself to pain levels.

500+ extra calories is a lot of exercise

And it's like one cream-filled donut on the food intake side of the equation.

Bombast retired this app three years ago, so they at least realized they weren't making any money off of it. It was always understood to be a loss leader of sorts, but I don't think they were ever really fully aware that even its utility as a loss leader was being greatly exaggerated.

Bombast is strangely competent in a weird way. During my time there, I frequently worked under vice presidents (they have hundreds of these in their corporate structure) who ranged from grossly incompetent to clinically insane, but they were always disappeared within weeks of my being assigned to them. I assume they were fired and escorted out of the building immediately, but I wouldn't entirely rule out murder.

Also strangely incompetent in weird ways. The founding Roberts died in 2015 and many people wore his signature bowtie to the corporate memorial service to honor him. The scuttlebutt was that everybody who wore a bowtie was fired shortly afterwards. I know for sure that this was the case with my own boss. I could never hope to explain why this was done.

I wrote a web app circa 2001 (Visual Basic 6 and Classic ASP) that is still in use. Unremarkable except that this app was a graphical UI front end atop a clunky mainframe app from the 1970s. The fact that my app is still running means this mainframe app is still running.