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Triple Dickhead (Moby 🐳, 🎸 Dale, PK 🛸) and erstwhile slacker
Not to worry, it will be down to $2 a gallon when the recession gets more serious and demand slackens.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Not to worry, it will be down to $2 a gallon when the recession gets more serious and demand slackens.
Well, the question is always answered with "he uses law as a bludgeon to bury opponents under the burden of legal costs and loss of focus", which has been his MO since he met Roy Cohn.
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Well, the question is always answered with "he uses law as a bludgeon to bury opponents under the burden of legal costs and loss of focus", which has been his MO since he met Roy Cohn.
I appreciate the writer in this article (from 2016) referring to its use as "part of the authenticity hoax."
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/f...
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/f...
Bespoke This, Bespoke That. Enough Already. (Published 2016)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I appreciate the writer in this article (from 2016) referring to its use as "part of the authenticity hoax."
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/f...
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/f...
All that noted: it's curious the term started coming back about 1990, and then really took off in the early 2000's, and then became (more) common in the last decade. Does anybody have any insight as to what the trigger here was? Where it was used, and how, in a modern context?
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All that noted: it's curious the term started coming back about 1990, and then really took off in the early 2000's, and then became (more) common in the last decade. Does anybody have any insight as to what the trigger here was? Where it was used, and how, in a modern context?
Mass manufacturing of 'off the shelf' clothing started in earnest in the 1840's and 50's, although it wasn't modern manufactured clothes so much as sewing machines enabling sweat shop production of patterned garments.
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Mass manufacturing of 'off the shelf' clothing started in earnest in the 1840's and 50's, although it wasn't modern manufactured clothes so much as sewing machines enabling sweat shop production of patterned garments.
Oh, in case this isn't obvious to others, I think the original use of the term to mean "tailored" or "individually prepared clothing" mirrors the rise of machine-created clothing, when a distinction became necessary.
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Oh, in case this isn't obvious to others, I think the original use of the term to mean "tailored" or "individually prepared clothing" mirrors the rise of machine-created clothing, when a distinction became necessary.
That said, I already see the meaning drifting, thanks to our friends crash commercialism and advertising. I've seen it used to indicate something 'worth paying extra for' or just 'cool and different', or skinning, and not truly sui generis. I wonder how long before it loses any distinction at all.
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
That said, I already see the meaning drifting, thanks to our friends crash commercialism and advertising. I've seen it used to indicate something 'worth paying extra for' or just 'cool and different', or skinning, and not truly sui generis. I wonder how long before it loses any distinction at all.
This still doesn't answer my question as to why the term suddenly rose into common parlance so rapidly, and how it leapt from meaning "tailored [clothing]" to "customized [anything]". Was it gaming? I have hints to that effect but I'm not in that world, so it's just a guess.
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This still doesn't answer my question as to why the term suddenly rose into common parlance so rapidly, and how it leapt from meaning "tailored [clothing]" to "customized [anything]". Was it gaming? I have hints to that effect but I'm not in that world, so it's just a guess.
I hope a private bill is sponsored to give her back pay for the 50 days!
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I hope a private bill is sponsored to give her back pay for the 50 days!
Let's also recall the GOP used (largely then) first-past-the-post primaries, which were winner takes all. He won a plurality of the vote, not a majority, to run up a huge margin of delegates. All these anti-democratic (small d) maneuvers by the party resulted in a travesty of a nomination process.
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Let's also recall the GOP used (largely then) first-past-the-post primaries, which were winner takes all. He won a plurality of the vote, not a majority, to run up a huge margin of delegates. All these anti-democratic (small d) maneuvers by the party resulted in a travesty of a nomination process.
Well, technically they drove crime up, by committing crimes all over town
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Well, technically they drove crime up, by committing crimes all over town
They've only been working on it for...ten years
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
They've only been working on it for...ten years
"carved brass" 😆😆😅🤣😂🤯
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"carved brass" 😆😆😅🤣😂🤯
Is a hot dog a sandwich?
not going there again
not going there again
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Is a hot dog a sandwich?
not going there again
not going there again
How is that pronounced? "Pope Ye"?
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
How is that pronounced? "Pope Ye"?
Also some really terrific baseball footage: Joe Jackson's one-shot triple is one of my favorite baseball scenes in all of baseball film history.
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Also some really terrific baseball footage: Joe Jackson's one-shot triple is one of my favorite baseball scenes in all of baseball film history.
I'd like to give him a gold watch and my best wishes on an early retirement
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I'd like to give him a gold watch and my best wishes on an early retirement
s/do/due
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
s/do/due
My favorite recent brain fart was when he, in the same post, took credit for raising prices on American beef and decried the increase in the price of beef in the grocery store. Then he jibed to blame the meat packing industry.
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
My favorite recent brain fart was when he, in the same post, took credit for raising prices on American beef and decried the increase in the price of beef in the grocery store. Then he jibed to blame the meat packing industry.
Because we're all willing to pay (takes out calculator...) 110% imposts to get to that three trillion, and imports won't drop at all as a result, cutting the purported revenue.
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Because we're all willing to pay (takes out calculator...) 110% imposts to get to that three trillion, and imports won't drop at all as a result, cutting the purported revenue.
You don't need to concoct a conspiracy theory to believe this. Tr*mp openly offered to due the oil industry's bidding if they gave him enough money. He's killing large-scale wind and solar projects left, right, and center, that would result in cheaper and cleaner energy.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
You don't need to concoct a conspiracy theory to believe this. Tr*mp openly offered to due the oil industry's bidding if they gave him enough money. He's killing large-scale wind and solar projects left, right, and center, that would result in cheaper and cleaner energy.
I rather think he might like it; it's all about moral choices, conformity, the lure of money, doing what's right -- or not -- in the face of injustice, class structure, what it means to be a role model -- one of the reasons the Asinof book, though flawed, was great, and Sayles' film was even greater
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I rather think he might like it; it's all about moral choices, conformity, the lure of money, doing what's right -- or not -- in the face of injustice, class structure, what it means to be a role model -- one of the reasons the Asinof book, though flawed, was great, and Sayles' film was even greater