Dude discussing ninja movies on a Gen X Facebook page: “I’m just wondering where all the ninjas went after 1993.”
Me: “Oh, they’re still there. YOU JUST CAN’T SEE THEM.”
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Cover to “Out of the Shadows” #11, 1954
Standard Comics. I’m uncertain of the cover artist — but I have seen Ross Andru credited.
“Evening Reading,” Georg Pauli, 1884
Sign outside downtown Roanoke restaurant: “NEAT DRESS REQUIRED.”
I don’t own ANY dresses.
Seriously, though — I actually stood there for a second pondering what sort of sort of slovenly dresses women had worn in order to prompt management to make the rule. (Was it a wild Saturday night?) Because I am slow on the uptake.
“A Finch (Siskin?),” James Sowerby
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.
Source: Philosophaire21 on Facebook
Hey, in fairness, they aren’t actually “pandas” either.
True fact — I didn’t really know what red pandas were at one point and I kept referring to them as “those cinnamon raccoons,” and there are still people who laugh at me about it.
Photo credit: Mathias Appel, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sculpture of Roger Ebert by Rick Carney, 2014
Outside the Virginia Theater in Champaign, IL. Photo by “Bordwall,” 2015.
