LOL

However, recent reporting about combination Applebee's | IHOP restaurants seems to exclusively use either a pipe with spaces or an en dash without spaces instead of a slash between the two restaurant names.

Thinking about this sent me down a brief rabbithole looking at historical reporting about combination Taco Bell / Pizza Huts, most of which does not follow the CMoS guidance. Once the subject was established, articles often abbreviconcatenated to "TacoHut".

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It sucks!

The cabbage-seller from Avatar: The Last Airbender smiles contentedly as he holds a cabbage up in cradled hands, pressing it against his cheek

"Ambergris and Butterkäse", Jordan Shriveley's debut into the romantasy genre, is a sweeping saga about the thousand-year courtship between the Queen of the Tooth Faeries and the Whale King.

The Whale King has always wanted to try cheese, but he has no teeth and also he lives in the ocean... (1/76)

A brown bunny stands on clover-filled grass with a clover leaf on its head. A wicker basket is in the background.

*imagines Lex in the shower, staring blankly at a wall with shelves containing milk crates labeled "Hands", "Feet", "Knees", "Heads", etc. and filled with the miscellaneous body parts described*

LEX: "Wait, did... Sh**."

A small white and brown lop-eared bunny is gently cradled in someone's hands.

(2/2) I suspect much of the stress you're responding to when using social media is about how the public square is interpreting data (e.g. labor stats) and picking a course of action.

That stress is grounded in societal dysfunction and wouldn't be reduced much by financial or professional security.

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social (1/2) You might not enjoy arguing, but you have a clear drive to contribute constructively to society and participate in collective decisionmaking.

Right now, the overwhelming majority of public debate occurs on social media. This compels the use of social media.

In colours of cocoa, coffee and creamy mascarpone, this Australian Boobook looks like a tiramisu, although she probably doesn't taste like one. Tiramisu is Italian for "pick me up", appropriate since the owl was found on the ground and unable to fly away; a clear sign of needing help. She's wrapped in a pale blue fabric and has green eyes fixed on the camera. As the original post says, she has some remaining fluffy down on the back of her head.

An Australian Boobook fledgling was found severely underweight and with parasites. Boobook Wildlife Shelter later posted she was looking much better and recovering well in rehab. Source: fb.com/638579802156... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

It's possible to put a thumb on the scale without triggering a walkout.

In this case, underestimating inflation makes it look like productivity has increased commensurately. And there's a LOT of political will to underestimate inflation.

Don't catch you slippin' now

An animated gif of fictional attorney Phoenix Wright looking thoughtful

They did actually put that show on

A friend of mine is a music teacher, and I recall having a conversation about that specifically a few months ago, and how there were nevertheless complaints about the "sexual" choreography (which was actually very tame). Any questions I should pass along?

Japan has bone-in sausages, where the bone works as a little handle, so why not bone-in caramel apples?

You could hand them out on Halloween and say "bone apple treat"

In this economy? Probably any kind of doctorate is plenty.

Papilio polyxenes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio... I think.

You might be a parsnip. Maybe ask a doctor.

As soon as I opened the door, the vampire grabbed me by the neck and pushed me into my house.

"But," I croaked, "I didn't invite you into my..."

With his other hand, the vampire slapped the papers I had signed yesterday for a second mortgage onto my kitchen table.

"OUR," he snarled.

Man, these new CAPTCHAs are intense

(2/2) The figurative use of "sticky" meaning "difficult" apparently started gaining real ground in the 1930's, presumably because of time travelers at the site of the Great Molasses Flood who wouldn't stop making puns

(1/2) This post made me dive into the etymology of "sticky" meaning "difficult", which apparently first showed up in print as the phrase "sticky wicket" in 1882 and referred to the difficulty involved in playing cricket on wet ground.