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I was hoping it was the director's attempt at showing the internal joy and love that Richard Dreyfuss's character feels towards Dorinda, but.... I think it was just a scene from an '80s movie. They were all that kind of cocaine-fueled weirdness back then.

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Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune

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Ohhh, oh no! We need your tourism toonies in Las Vegas! We had no idea just how much Canadians spent on American stuff like bourbon and vacations! Ohh no, we're so sorry for those silly things we said, like threatening your sovereignty and being all condescending and dismissive.

Echoing your sentiment from the middle of America. Get fucked! Begging for visitors like that before doing anything to make amends, ugh.

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"It's important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination." -- rando convenience store customer in Clerks, 1994

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Major US Brands Sound Alarm Over Rising Anti-American Sentiment

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Please don't stop there. We need people to witness this and do like the boycotters abroad are doing.

It's about bullying and exploiting other countries with really high tariffs.

It's about our full support of Israel while they commit a genocide.

It's about our failure to uphold the deal we made with Ukraine to get them to agree to nuclear disarmament.

It's about deciding not to honor contracts made during the last administration, saying that they no longer apply, and allowing the people who benefited from USAID abroad (and tons of federal, formerly dependable paychecks at home) to fall off without even an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, while yelling that anybody who isn't hand-over-fist greedy isn't American.

I've been saying this since he first started campaigning: STOP GIVING HIM STUFF. HE GOES AWAY WHEN YOU STOP LISTENING TO HIM AND GIVING HIM YOUR STUFF.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity. It has been discussed in literature in various forms since 1967, when it appeared in Dmitri Borgmann's Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought. The sentence employs three distinct meanings of the word buffalo:

  • As an attributive noun (acting as an adjective) to refer to a specific place named Buffalo, such as the city of Buffalo, New York;
  • As the verb to buffalo, meaning (in American English[1][2]) "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and
  • As a noun to refer to the animal (either the true buffalo or the bison). The plural is also buffalo.

A semantically equivalent form preserving the original word order is: "Buffalonian bison that other Buffalonian bison bully also bully Buffalonian bison."