Tiger has been gone for a while now, but Dog In A Clog is eternally funny
🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇
@pwallinga.bsky.social
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Bluesky's favorite opera composer [citation needed]. Not tonal, not atonal, but a secret third thing. Posts about music, D&D, and loads of other nonsense. Adequate approximation of a teacher, if you squint | she/her | midwesterner in 🌉
![Cities most & least like you
Interpolated from the nearest survey responses.
Most similar
Denver, CO (49%)
San Francisco, CA (48%)
Milwaukee, WI (48%)
Least similar
New Orleans, LA (43%)
Atlanta, GA (44%)
Nashville, TN (44%)
What gave you away
Answers that point most strongly to Illinois.
What is your *general* term for the rubber-soled shoes worn in gym class, for athletic activities, etc.?
gymshoes
crayon
[æ] as in "man" (1 syllable, "cran")
What do you call the area of grass between the sidewalk and the road?
beltway
the second vowel in "pajamas"
[æ] as in "jam"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l2jdqeu7eagvdvnw4qrd3c57/bafkreif6dshy4qed57cacc7u5osrnxkooxbowxxtm7n2talzo7kwwp62zi)
![Screenshots of the Parks and Recreation episode where Chris brings a vegetable loaf to a party instead of a cake, with captions edited to the following.
Ron: But did they ask you to bring Einstein on the Beach or an opera?
Chris: No, opera. But this is so much more modern!
Ron: So not only does this thing exist, but now you have deprived everyone of opera.
Chris: [stares blankly]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l2jdqeu7eagvdvnw4qrd3c57/bafkreif5cyofpwsyfcmhafsznbmmw2neowpsg3o4ueigtadlgh3ftgigja)
![[White Hat stick figure talking with Cueball plain stick figure. They have wine glasses.]
White Hat: How do you stand this cheap wine?
Cueball: Wine all tastes the same to me.
White Hat: You've just never had good wine. If you paid more attention, you'd realize there's a whole world here.
Cueball: But that's true of anything! Wine, house music, fonts, ants, Wikipedia signatures, Canadian surrealist porn—
Cueball: Spend enough time with any of them and you'll become a snobby connoisseur.
[next panel same characters]
White Hat: But some things do have more depth than others.
Cueball: If you locked people in a box for a year with 500 still frames of Joe Biden eating a sandwich, by the end they'd be adamant that some were great and some terrible.
White Hat: You're exaggerating.
Cueball: Oh, really?
Next panel shows a box, with two star burst on the surface from where two voices emanate from the inside. Over the top left of the panels frame is a small frame with a caption:]
A year later:
[The voice from left side of the box:]
Sure, most closed-mouth frames are boring, but in #415, the way the man's jaw frames the mayo on his hand is pure perfection, and—
[The voice from right side of the box:]
What a surprise- you praising a mayo frame. Listening to you, I'd think there was nothing else in The Sandwich.
[The voice from right side of the box:]
Frankly, the light hitting J.B.'s collar through the lettuce would put #242 in my top ten even if he had no mayo on his hand at all.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l2jdqeu7eagvdvnw4qrd3c57/bafkreigcxjqly2hct74s5agxz5iz5ieuewpiywh3jkbhmtn52i43vm3yt4)