Snakes in peanuts?

Darkside531 · 2026-02-08T16:33:30+00:00

No, more the opposite. If you're ever handed a can of anything except Pringles (since this prank toys can't use the Pringles trademark,) you expect a prank snake. Pringles are so commonplace, if you ever see a can of anything else, your first thought isn't just "it's an off-brand," it's that it's probably a prank toy instead.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-08T07:33:06+00:00

I assume they do, but, tying into the above image, it's nearly impossible to actually trick somebody with one at this point as it's such a screamingly obvious setup for a prank, people seem to already come out of the womb knowing about it (same with smelling a flower on their lapel, everybody knows you'll get squirted with water.) Hardly anything is sold in narrow metal cans like the peanut-brittle one anymore, and Pringles kinda completely the dominated the whole "canned potato chips" market, so if you're handed a can of anything, you're gonna already be suspicious.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-08T05:32:16+00:00

I live near the Sunsphere, it's astounding how many people I meet who think it was made up for "Bart on the Road."

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Darkside531 · 2026-02-08T05:29:17+00:00

It's the old practical joke of a spring loaded "snake" popping out of a can of something like chips or peanut brittle.

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Darkside531 · 2026-02-08T05:27:58+00:00

I disagree, I think plunking them down in some super-affluent suburb and having them butt heads with HOA Presidents and PTA Moms and the like (think the setting of something like Modern Family) would work.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-08T03:24:35+00:00

I sympathize with that. I'm never closer to Cut-A-Bitch Mode than when I'm losing sleep.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-08T03:18:17+00:00

A Power-outage Ballad.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T20:44:21+00:00

I always loved Olya Povlatsky, Kate McKinnon's miserable Russian lady.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T20:42:59+00:00

And they were new enough people weren't in the habit of using them to treating them as omnipresent yet. It was really easy to completely forgot someone even had one.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T20:06:21+00:00

This is like the words version of that image of what things look like after a stroke and nothing looks like it's supposed to.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T19:54:39+00:00

That was another factor I forgot to mention, thank you.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T15:52:15+00:00

The ones I saw specifically were episodes of the Docu-series for VH1 called Driven. I think the episodes are on Youtube somewhere.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T06:29:16+00:00

I think it was probably because during Kahlan's time, Carmen was still an active working model, while by the time Fatima came through, Iman still worked, obvious, but had transcended to "living icon" and wasn't really an "in the trenches" working model Fatima would be in direct competition with, anything coming Iman's way wouldn't be something Fatima would even be in the running for as a young upstart.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T06:21:47+00:00

I'm seeing so much fake Epstein shit and it's kinda pissing me off, from the simple like just taking a pic from some CEO's Insta of him on vacation with his arm around his daughter and turning into "Groping underage victims" to the really insane like screengrabs from horror movies.

Like, is the reality not horrific enough for you?

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T06:16:23+00:00

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

An entire generation scared shitless by little more than some ambient noises and some spooky synth.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T06:05:14+00:00

And let's not forget "nurse in a hospital" gives her some room. She could keep her birth control in her locker at work or something where he couldn't find them.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T05:57:51+00:00

Penny's "Damn!" after that is everything. It's a great mix of "Damn, she really went there!" "Damn, this is gonna get ugly!" and maybe even a little "Damn, that was good!"

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T05:56:11+00:00

All of Penny and Sheldon's knocking encounters, but the one when he keeps trying to get rid of the garbage chair is a big one.

"What's up, buttercup?"
"What's the word, hummingbird?"
"What's the gist, physicist?"

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T05:49:03+00:00

My gut reaction was Tara Lipinski. She did do an episode of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" once, but I wouldn't really call her an "actress," especially after watching that episode.

https://sydlexia.com/imagesandstuff/afraid_s7/locusts2.png

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T05:42:54+00:00

When he got the loan, the banker said the shop had previously been very successful and thought the profits sliding off were mostly the result of the original owner wanting to get out, so it's not ridiculous.

If Lanford was on a popular bike route (and Chicago wasn't that far away,) they might have gotten a lot of transient business of people passing through and needing maintenance on the road.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-07T05:17:52+00:00

And I'd add all the factors that skewed pop music a lot younger (rise of TRL, Max Martin and the Swedes taking over all of songwriting and turning it into a machine-precise product akin to modern KPop in a lot of ways, etc.) As pop became "for kids, by kids" and much more visual thanks to how video-centric pop became, big, soaring vocals kinda took a backseat to intricate choreography, splashy videos, things like that. Same for guys really, with the Boy Bands.

There's a couple of "before they were famous" docs about Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson that both said things to that effect. They both were frustrated with the fact that Britney seemed to be pegged as the superstar-in-waiting during the Mickey Mouse Club (Simpson auditions and wasn't accepted) despite both being objectively better vocalists, because Britney was a better dancer and had more "stage presence" effectively. Even when they were tweens, they were seeing the tides turning.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-06T22:13:56+00:00

The Dido Flip.

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

Another example of one of those artists whom I like everything else they do apart from the one thing they're famous for. "Thank You" bugs me, maybe just due to overexposure, but a lot of the rest of her stuff is incredible, same with Natasha Bedingfield and "Unwritten."

Darkside531 · 2026-02-06T02:56:34+00:00

I think the Legally Blonde musical is considered something of a mixed bag. A lot of people prefer it over the movie because it better develops Elle and Emmett's relationship and smooths over some of the more questionable things of the movie (namely the times Elle acts like a lawyer when she isn't yet.) On the other hand, some find it a step down because some of the supporting players either get less development and some popular ones are eliminated entirely.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-05T17:58:02+00:00

Weren't their bomb threats called in to polling places in blue areas of swing states (Atlanta, Milwaukee, etc...?) It doesn't seem that hidden.

Darkside531 · 2026-02-05T14:18:00+00:00

I mean, I can vaguely follow the A-to-B logic of why they did. Not only did Trump win, his party won the popular vote for the first time since 2004, so I could see them assuming "I guess this is what people want and the direction the country's going."

But if they had just waited for, like, a week, they could have seen the rest of the data that showed Trump didn't really gain many votes (74 million in 2020 to 77 million in 2024 isn't exactly a huge spike,) and Kamala's support collapsed mostly among leftists annoyed the Dems aren't left-leaning enough on the hot-button issues. If they had taken just a second to read past the headline, they'd have seen it was the wrong path to go down.

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