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IIRC the Myrtle Beach Thong thing is from 2 years ago. Last I heard the lady in question was pushing to have the law changed (did a cursory look and didn't see any updates past Aug 2020 on the story).

Yeah, the first episode has that - Its Mr. Klepto and his grandaughter who own the car (the rest of the family doesn't matter to the story) Racer X has a repeatedly goofy expression - The henchmen is a giant brick Trixie goes in disquise - Spritle and Chim-Chim rampage Pops has to be reminded he used to be a wrestler - And the villain attempts a getaway by driving over a lake that Speed Racer goes underwater to follow him with no explanation.

Speed Racer - The Secret Engine Speed tries to help an old guy whose Model T engine holds the secret to stolen money. An episode that again proves that little on earth can withstand a sustained attack from Spritle and Chim-Chim. Some funny animation moments as well (my favorite is the weird expression Racer X has on multiple times in the story). Pretty enjoyable.

I'm not sure if linguists are shanky, or more glarey, to be honest.

IIRC, Japan will shank you in a dark alley for suggesting that.

Um...that sounds more like performance art (think Caroline Schneeman, Wolf Vostell, et al) crossed with either Dada (where Duchamp and other Dada artists rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works) or Transgressive (where artists like Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe and others, created works intended to outrage or to violate what was considered basic morals, sensibility or taste). Although a part of me wonders if they could have just been wanting to be a living Jackson Pollack (abstract expressionism). 😛 Impressionist art is like Monet and Renoir and was concerned with capturing the quality and changes in light more so than strict representation of figure or object (partially because the original artist in the movement was going blind and began painting what they were seeing rather that being able to do realistic representational painting, IIRC).

What desert?

Semi related - the Chronicle of Higher Education just had an opinion article on the impending impact of AI written student papers on higher education. Link is here - Will Artificial Intelligence Kill College Writing? (chronicle.com) but probably paywalled.

Er...that's the line where he slaps Gunsel, IIRC. Have I misremembered? EDIT: I haven't gone completely out of my mind, yet. But its Cairo, not Gunsel/Wilmer, he slaps

"When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it."

I did a test with a well known Pre-Raphelite artist asking for RPG portraits and the output mostly looked like the actual works of said artist with funky faces, which leads me to believe the thing was really only attempting to change the face.

My personal opinion is "bleh".

In '98 or '99 my supervisor at the time came in and announced that we were going to build a website for our department! ...and then he handed me a book on HTML. 😄

Yes, I had a brain fart on Rochefort vs Heston as the Cardinal which is stupid as I just watched the films within the last year.

IIRC Cardinal Richelieu doesn't have a patch in the book (nor did the real Richelieu), but in every adaption after Lee has been portrayed with a patch.