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Deceptive because it is deceived

I'm training for a marathon and this is just like Thursday after work, plus beer.

Can you explain that difference for us non-therapists so that we might make use of it in the future?

Maturing as time demands of us

Haha of course

David Macaulay's Way Things Work or his titles on Castle, Pyramid, City etc.

Stanislaw Lem's 137 Seconds

This is a great joke. Mentally upsetting.

Simply one of the greatest vocal performances of all time.

Marc have you listened to Andrew Hickey's "500 songs" podcast on People Get Ready? It's great.

Something to be said about the improvememt of the physical book here. The Peanuts and Pogo books were printed badly on poor quality paper. The later C+H anthologies - floppy covers, wide format - were easy to read and durable.

That's right. AMP also published the wildly popular Far Side desk calendars, and even published anthologies of strips not syndicated by UPS.

Very few comics were anthologized into discreet chronological books before the 80s. Peanuts, Pogo, and Mad magazine might have been it. Doonesbury's successful anthologies encouraged AMP to publish more. Marketing those books specifically to children via Scholastic emerged in the 80s.

This is absolutely true. AMU's creation of gocomics was designed to make use of this new distro channel just as newspaper syndication began to crater.

Followed by seagulls everywhere you go

Also Andrews McMeel Publications was distinct from Universal Press Syndicate tho they had the same owners. AMP allowed UPS to prosper outside of syndication alone, and was one reason they could survive Wattersons's "no licensing" stance.

Same age as you, worked at Andrews McMeel Universal as an adult. Can confirm this as a strategy adopted sometime mid-80s. One of AMU's major distro channels was Scholastic catalogs in public schools.

A cognitive elite

Pinkle bout

Wikipedia entry on the term bed-rotting with insanely repetitive definition. A note is appended to the wiki stating that this description may contain text generated by a large language model.

Damn that hurts

All this for that haircut

Shrinking brand disease

A lotta high-paying second jobs in Montgomery

You may be right. Perhaps some category getting used interchangeably here.

But those aren't the places people would get coffee. Diners served coffee. And like Chock Full O Nuts. But not delis.

Offramp to chronology

How do we downvote posts

Adding to the pile of shitty posts great