Small things 6 Nov

• "Dear White House movers: ask for the money up front." ~Conan O'Brien
• Who decided that eyes and teeth aren't part of healthcare?
• Geology rocks, but geography is where it's at.
  
  
  
• Rick Moranis! Watch this funny Mint Mobile ad. 
• Ever seen an actor nail an American accent so well the first time you saw them perform that you assumed they were American? Then saw them act in Brit TV and think, hmm, decent Brit accent. Then find out they are in fact British? Yeah. Gillian Anderson. I had no idea.
• The problem isn't misinformed people. It's confident misinformed people.
• The next time you notice people staring at their phones, just remember, they could have been staring at you.
• Toast is the ultimate processed food. Think about it. You have to process the wheat to get flour, process the flour to get dough, then bake the dough. Then cook it again in the toaster. It's so processed, it's got no flavour. So what do we do? Slather it with butter and jam.
• Dads hate stopping on road trips because then all of the vehicles they worked so hard to pass for the last hour get back ahead of them.
• Saying that Covid deaths were actually deaths from underlying causes is like saying that someone hit by a moving vehicle died of structural failure.
• Never try to catch a falling knife.
• Would you name your newborn daughter Karen at this point?
• To all those parents who want their 13 year old child to understand the importance of honesty, but also to understand that when 12 year olds eat for free, they're 12.
• "Fiction gives us empathy. It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over." ~Neil Gaiman