September 19, 2022

152. National Butterscotch Pudding Day's Eve

1 hour

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Lords:

Alex

Shannon

Topics:

Rebranding a Country

The single-celled dog

Joe Hart still hasn't cleared out the vampire dens

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i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious.

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National Butterscotch Pudding Day (Sep 19)

Microtopics:

Tying on the tiebreaker.

Cambodian street food.

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Two countries in the process of changing their names.

Whether sovereignty was ceded.

Tourism videos encouraging people to pronounce your country's name correctly.

History continuing to happen after you leave high school.

Changing your name to North Your Name to get an alliance with NATO.

A bonanza for globe manufacturers.

The United States of Mexico.

Germany's reaction to the United States changing its name to The United States of Germany.

Playing the wrong Korea's national anthem by mistake.

Switching to Roguelike Alphabetical Order so Zimbabwe doesn't always go last.

What does it mean to be a particular kind of animal?

Transmissible cancer.

A breed of dog that no longer exists as a dog but does exist as a strain of transmissible cancer.

CTVT.

HeLa cells.

Whether Henrietta Lacks is still alive.

How to fix 20,000 years of evolution.

A dog that is unlike extant dogs.

When you decide to change your evolutionary niche from macro to microorganism.

Cancer that is smart enough to not kill its host.

How cancer interacts with your mutant healing factor.

What this is and why it's happening to you.

Why a two year old wants to play in a copper mine.

What kind of mines New England vampires lived in.

Rearranging a corpse so that the vampire can't walk.

No Arizona Mine Draculas.

Joe Hart: defending our vampires.

Change that you can really make, if you live in Arizona.

Not getting the Google results you want because of sports mans.

The pros and cons of vampire bats.

Abandoned mines serving as habitats for 28 bat species that are crucial to the local ecology.

Persons currently experiencing vampirism.

Can't Have Shitting Gotham.

Adding line breaks to someone's complaint about a glow in the dark star to make a poem.

The imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white.

A life situation that is so poignant that it's impossible to write a poem about, so you describe it in prose and wait for a Tumblr user to come and add some line breaks.

A monologue that you could read in many different ways.

Returning to Tumblr because you have more thoughts on the painted-over star.

Responding to every text from your daughter as if it's a formal letter to a long-lost cousin.

Putting glow in the dark eyeballs on your closet door.

Putting you pudding under the Pudding Tree for Father Pudding.

How you grow the Pudding Tree.

Werther's Compromise.

Using Werther's Originals as dentures and you have to replace them every hour.

Removing the butter from scotch to get butterscotch.

Soft crack vs. hard crack.

Those terrifying Pillsbury tins that you bang on the counter and they explode and breadsticks come out.

How to determine if your candy in progress is in the soft ball stage.

What is pudding?

Having an existential crisis on Butterscotch Pudding Day.

Butterscotch Buttercream Frosting.

All the Lords that are fit to print.

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