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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes. I can't believe so many dealerships offered that promotion. What did they do with the kids? Congress shouldn't have allowed it.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was about an exchange program.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And you always get a bonus low-speed chase!

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm glad that more recent shows have returned to the archetype of "extremely street-level detective who's one step from broke," but modern examples lack the genuine feel of Rockford.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Audiences needed a pause from the breakneck pacing of various gentle comic antics of Issac helping Carol Channing find love or whatever.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Somehow I find The Rockford Files' endless scenes of tailing someone in a car relaxing rather than boring.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Weird, that's my nickname too.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had to correct the spelling error in my otherwise A+ world-shaking joke.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

*a* ffliction? no thanks, I'd rather watch THE ffliction. #jokesfornobody

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A man tells his doctor he's depressed and the Doctor replies, "In town tonight is the great clown Pagliacci. Go see him.” The man crying says, “But doc, I am P-(dynamically-inserted ad) ASK YOUR PHARMACIST ABOUT BINGO! IT’S THE ONLY DRUG THAT REMOVES YOUR SHAME SO YOU CAN RETURN TO SPORTS GAMBLING!

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OOOOOH THEY MAKE ME SO MAAAAAD!

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

they'll never recover from this

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've finally got all my ducks in a row.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"(people who think they're) smart (listen to these) talks"

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

can we file a false advertising suit against malcolm gladwell for hosting something called "smart talks?"

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Puppet Masters/Castle Freaks Podcast @castlefreaks888.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨New Episode!🚨 Ep. 194: Vengeance of the Dead (2001) w/ Dan McCoy We finish out our @flophousepodcast.com collaboration month w/ an odd regional, rural curio. It’s kind of an interesting little film; lots of leering grandpas and lots of immolation. Check it out! linktr.ee/puppetmaster...

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah that one's basically all killer. And they still had some great albums to come!

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Seán Lynch @naes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very glad I signed up to the Deathbed newsletter - reading @dankmccoy.bsky.social's short story Sheep this morning was a fun, spooky way to start the day, with some killer lines - "He’d tried memory foam, and foam he was sure couldn’t pick him out in a line-up." deathbed.ghost.io/sheep/

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Oh me? Just chillin with my creepy tree."

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, press. Good start. Now start showing these kind of balls when you're not personally being threatened.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lesson learned. Sometimes knowledge and understanding alone are not enough.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm calling it the "most confusing to me" joke of 2026.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Whalefall: "It's okay your dad was an asshole to you, because it prepared you for the common occurance of being swallowed by a whale."

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Puzzling over a vanity license plate that said IDEALGY. Misspelled "ideology?" Or does it mean "ideal guy?" Because that's factually incorrect. No ideal guy has a vanity license plate that says IDEALGY.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Shocktober is already full, but I'm sure we'll address this one once it's streaming somewhere.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's one of the most entertaining showbiz booke ever -- you just have to be cool with knowing around a quarter of it is heavily embelished, to say the least.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Consider me proof that opinions vary.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nope! I'm arguing that viking is a thing a kid would think it was fun to be -- like "Oh boy sleep! That's where I'm an astronaut!" Or "that's where I'm a wizard!" Or "that's where I'm a fireman!" Totally different than making viking an avatar for success or excelling.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(While I believe in my interpretation, in the larger sense I truly do not care. At this point I'm just chatting because I find the enthusiastic response to all this amusing.)

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

OR -- while he's a failure in school, in sleep he gets to be a viking!

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He wants to go where he's a viking!

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I find that interpretation totally funny. Maybe not so much as a cold abstract thought, but in context -- an enthusiastic kid unexpectedly going "Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!" in response to his worn out teacher? Funny.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I would be SUPER awkward about it! (but thank you!)

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh neat. Mirkin's character rationale is simpatico with mine!

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not because it's conceptually complex but because it doesn't really have a premise so much as a bunch of general topics of conversation they tend to return to.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

relay.fm/rd/295 A delightful low key podcast, and one where I could absolutely not explain to you what it's about.

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Reconcilable Differences #295: If I Adjust for Europe - Relay

John eventually tells us what it is he's so mad about.

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