Topic Lords

168. Take A Gasket, Leave A Gasket

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Lords:

  • Erica
  • Jenni

    • Topics:

    • Stronger with Stogner
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0MwD8dyko
      • What is & isn't ahegao, prescriptivistly
      • Wanna Feel Old? 10 Hilarious Examples Of Anti-Piracy Measures In Video Games
        • https://screenrant.com/anti-piracy-video-games-funny/
        • The Lanyard by Billy Collins
          • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50975/the-lanyard
          • The "what the fuck" genre of narrative & why it frequently has an unsatisfying ending
          • Ed O'Brien on backing vocals
            • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWuAn6C8Mfc
            • https://floodmagazine.com/44288/ed-from-radiohead-sing-his-own-name/

              • Microtopics:

              • Fighting for credit.
              • The discord: it's fun in there.
              • Forgetting an entire lord.
              • A lot of work to get twice as many views.
              • A convenient thing you can put old food in so it doesn't go bad as quickly.
              • Gaskets: there's a name for them.
              • The British vs. the American conception of a frown.
              • Frowning with your face gaskets.
              • Doing a cartwheel to feel happier.
              • Alan Snape.
              • Doing a racy political ad on top of a 40-foot pumpjack.
              • What the Texas Railroad Commission does.
              • Getting the idea for OPEC from Texas.
              • A political ad using the Sugar Hill Gang cover of Apache as a soundtrack.
              • The suburban Texan mom solving the climate crisis single-handedly.
              • Twerking at the sunrise.
              • Field-dressing a moose.
              • Fantasy-footballing a female running mate for Theodore Roosevelt even though they didn't have women back then.
              • Getting so annoyed at an ad that you have to log back into Twitter.
              • Scrolling social media and getting angry by yourself.
              • The crucial elements that comprise the ahegao face.
              • Electronic Girl.
              • The phylogeny of the e-girl.
              • Is it Soup?
              • Looking at Zelda's face and thinking "okay, that's soup."
              • Whether ahegao or Betty Boop are sexy.
              • A face that people make to indicate horniness.
              • The Betty Boop ahegao: it's bad, folks.
              • What is otaku's plan for us?
              • Project Lords.
              • A web site with JavaScript implementations of video game code wheels of various 90s video games.
              • Everybody playing the free version of chess for thousands of years when the paid version is a way better game.
              • Why there is no Casio Loopy emulator.
              • Finding a tiny blood reservoir for the smallest blood sacrifices.
              • Who wrote the Vagina Monologues?
              • Moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano.
              • What a lanyard is and what it's for.
              • How to repay your mom for all the things that she's given you.
              • God's Eyes.
              • Replacing your son's butt-gasket.
              • Being old enough to remember when it was normal for schoolchildren to make their parents an ashtray.
              • Making a gumball dispenser in wood shop and using it to convince your mom to buy you a big bag of gumballs.
              • 1899.
              • A sequence of mysterious things happening.
              • A mysterious TV show that ends when you overwater all of your boyfriend's plants.
              • The final episode of Lost, where the giant panda shows up and explains that "I'm god and you're in my dream!"
              • Comedy typing directly into the Topic Bucket.
              • What makes a good ending to a mystery-focused story.
              • Mystery as marketing hook.
              • How to end a mystery-focused story in a satisfying way without solving the mystery.
              • The most normal-looking guy in Radiohead.
              • The one guy in Radiohead who doesn't have any fans.
              • From the Basement in Rainbows.
              • A super chill guy keeping time with his leg.
              • Does Ed from Radiohead only sing his own name?
              • A Pokemon Named Ed.
              • Idiosyncratic ways to describe your favorite band member, that unlock your unique adoration.
              • The only member of the band who smiles.
              • Absorbing it all as the luckiest person alive playing with your pals in a huge venue.
              • The kind of Radiohead fan whose imagination is so powerful that you can't safely let them into Radiohead concerts because they might imagine a bomb.
              • The kind of Topic Lord who listens to the show.
              • Having some delightful chats in Texas.
              • Posing on the pumpjack where nobody will ever see you.

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