As large flat screen TVs became affordable, virtually overnight, the chonky big screen TVs of the 90s went from status symbol to joke. People didn’t want to pay the hefty fee to dispose of these heavy beasts properly at the landfill and thrift shops refused to take them because they were impossible to sell, so I started seeing them abandoned along rural roadsides so frequently that I was never surprised when I spotted another.
I know somebody who teaches in a district with a large population of south Asian immigrants. She told me those parents complain when she doesn’t assign a lot of homework.
According to character writer Jimmy Palmiotti, "Okay. When the character was created, Wally Wood was the artist that drew Power Girl, and he was convinced that the editors were not paying attention to anything he did. So, his inker said “Every issue, I’m going to draw the —s bigger until they notice it. It took about seven or eight issues before anyone was like, “Hey, what’s with the --s?” And that’s where they stopped. True story.”
I never saw a problem with eating the last donut. The last donut is a pathetic powdered donut that sits around in the box into the late afternoon. You’re doing the poor thing a favor by eating it rather than having it get tossed in the trash the next morning.
It’s the death knell for all of them. If one bird is confirmed with bird flu, the entire flock will be destroyed.