As a teenager / young adult, I had never heard (or at least registered) this song. In that timeframe, I once visited my older sister and her husband, who at the time had a pretty large collection of cats.

At one point, I stepped away from the group and, on my return, encountered one of these cats just hanging out around the corner from the gathering area. I said to it “what’s up, pussycat?” just to acknowledge it. Immediately everyone in the main room, from which they could overhear me, responded “whooooa-oh-oh-oh!”

Without the context of knowing that song, it was very confusing and almost alarming.

I, like most lemmings, object to the idea of having my bed be cloud connected … But putting that aside, couldn’t the bed just be unplugged? I don’t know if that would solve the angle problem, but surely the bed needs power to generate heat.

I see, said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.

Taking the approach to carrots might explain your username.

Me.

My grandfather owned a business, which meant he made and received a lot of phonecalls. I have no memory of him, as he died two months after I was born (on Halloween, in fact.)

However, my mother told me that he was also a diabetic and, for it, took medication that was a diuretic. That meant, in her words, that every morning he would take his medicine then “go pee for an hour and a half.” (I’m very ignorant of medicine so I can only parrot what she told me.)

The combination of these facts apparently resulted in him doing a lot of business (of both kinds) over the phone from atop the commode. He had a phone jack installed next to the toilet and got a phone specifically to keep there.

The phone was the same model as the one pictured in this post.

Bonus fun fact: it was long enough ago that the jack looked like this.

The only reason I know the story outlined above is that I, as a kid, did not know what that jack was and asked my mother about it.

Well, thank you for the information! I believe she was talking about the 70s-ish, but I don’t really know. No idea where, but almost certainly not Nebraska.

I believe she was 40 in 1987.

My mom once told me that, in her youth, you could ask whether smoking weed was okay in an environment by saying “is it cooool?” stretching out the word and making a sort of fish swimming motion with your hand.

I don’t know whether that’s true, nor - if so - how widespread it was. Probably it’s not still accurate in any case.

It’s pronounced “emm-preg.”

From now on, any time I wake up, I will immediately message you my very likely incoherent thoughts for your entertainment.

Honestly, the first thing that came to mind when I opened your post. I just wish I’d found the gif with the elephant eye refocusing.

There’s a bathroom on the right.

Maybe they were talking about consent.

You’re right, I should comment on things immediately after waking up less frequently.

I assumed from context that this was their first date, and maybe I’m old or old fashioned, but due to that my thought process went

Oh yeah she gets a ring

For sure! Call her back!

Wife her up OP

Maybe too early for that?

It’s not.

And the owner of Epic, which owns Fortnite, is rabidly anti Linux. I believe he’s made some concessions to lose less of the Deck market share, but he’s made many insulting and untrue statements of Linux and its users in the past as well as actively sabotaging Linux functionality in games that used to have it.

If they are eating bananas, they’re probably more than zero K.

Hopefully your proctologist is able to help with that!