Better take a close look at your collection of vintage cigarette packages. 20 Marlboros, 20 Camels, 20 Winstons, 20 Salems - oops, only 18 Chesterfields.

Way I heard it:

What do a divorce in Alabama, a tornado in Kansas, and an unlatched fifth wheel on (highway near where joke is being told) have in common?

Someone’s gonna lose a trailer.

Standard practice. Have you ever heard anyone referring to Britain’s second longest serving monarch as Victoria I? No, because there has not yet been a Victoria II, so she is referred to as Queen Victoria. “The first” is only added when there is a need to distinguish them from “the second”.

I’ve seen (late 1980s/early 1990s) a magazine article about using a 16k DRAM chip as a low-res camera.

Neither. She’s based on “Lili”, a German “adult novelty” doll.

“The Hammer of God” is a short story by G.K. Chesterson. Why are you referring to it as a novel by Clarke?

FIFA is not only corrupt, they’re stupid. They should have, in the background, conducted negotiations with “soccer heavy” countries that already have facilities to see if they could handle a “pop-up”. Qatar announces a couple days before the start that a major sponsor won’t be allowed to sell their product? FIFA counters by announcing that the 2022 World Cup will be held in Country X in the summer of 2023, rather than in Qatar.

Having a “contingent host” that can handle things on short notice is just good sense - what would they have done if a meteor had destroyed the stadium?

As for the last-minute ban on the sale of Kosher food and Jewish prayers in public, FIFA should have countered with a package deal: on the event site, either religiously-certified food for all faiths is permitted to be sold, and public prayers of all faiths are permitted, or no religiously certified food for any faith will be sold, and no public prayers for any faith will be permitted.

Although if the person making the callout was looking at a screen of data from the telemetry, rather than a video (or Mark 1 eyeball$ of the launch, they might have assumed that the sudden stop in data was due to a major malfunction of the telemetry rather than a catastrophic failure of the craft.

Not new. He’s the asshole who, at the 2009 VMA awards, took the mic from Taylor Swift and went on a rant when she was supposed to be giving her acceptance speech.

Too bad the loot didn’t include a jumbo bag of sugar-free gummi bears, as reviewed on Amazon.

Don’t forget that the doctors have to operate under laws made by politicians with zero medical knowledge but plenty of fossilized opinions, so that in some jurisdictions following what panels of experts have decided are best practices can get a doctor thrown in jail and/or banned from practicing medicine. Recent law in Florida is a prime example.

I saw a documentary about that - doctor travelled back in time to give a kidney dialysis patient a pill to get her kidneys working again.