ArtieShaw

I just wanted to comment that Bob Ross's name and image is controlled not by his estate, but by his former business partners. There are a couple of good articles out there, but the tl/dr is that they stole the business from him as he was dying.

https://flaglawgroup.com/a-not-so-happy-accident-bob-rosss-estate-planning-failures-leave-his-son-with-next-to-nothing-part-1/

It sounds like the painting being offered for sale was in private hands, but I hate to see a price point like that being set while the vast majority of his work is owned by the people who screwed him and his family.

The thing is, I can also hear him say

"tastes like wank" thanks to @thegiddystitcher

If you displease me again,

"Bwang-ang-ang-ang!"

Tons of potential for TIT(Trekked)U.

I can't go to San Francisco without thinking about the nuclear wessels. My husband is legitimately worried that I'll start asking random strangers about them.

Actually - considering the amount of unsolicited (and invariably wrong) advice we got from SF locals who saw us looking at transit maps and butted in to offer some friendly assistance... I may just do that at the next visit.

"Are you looking for Fisherman's Warf?"
"No."
"It's just down that way!" \
~~"I think we're good! Thanks for the help!"~~
"Actually, we're looking for nuclear wessels. Do you know where I can find nuclear wessels?"

\ He's right to be worried.

Ick. A fifty year old dentist with a girlfriend half his age, who he routinely hooks up to an IV drip cocktail of tranquilizers. That's just awful.

Not to imply that she wasn't a willing participant. Addicts usually are, which makes them such easy prey.

I do hope he gets a long enough sentence that he leaves prison as an old man or in a box.

Aw, I remember a confused new cat "owner" who wrote to a cat advice sub about that. He was extremely stressed out because he couldn't help himself from looking at his new cat. It was sweet. Weird and overly literal, but sweet. He seemed genuinely worried that being seen would bother the cat.

Everyone reassured him that he could look at the kitty if he wasn't weird about it.

Worf? Worf here is being weird about it. And holding him wrong. Worf's gonna get mauled.

I don't think that means what you think it means.

I just wanted to see a bigger picture of the kitty.

I hadn't even thought about the comparison to Guinan or Quark. The comparison makes Neelix so much worse. Guinan didn't need a redemption arc . Quark had a good one. Neither of them were annoying.

Neelix was awful, and probably made worse because I wanted to like him from the start.

Without getting into Kes - which compounded the Neelix problem for me - I started to hate him less in the last few seasons when he went all dark sad clown. I was still viscerally annoyed, but he turned into almost a Michael Scott type character. He was horrible, but you could see the the pain that made him that way.

That's a nice and succinct summary.

I've been following this story pretty closely. I'm nowhere near to being part of the press, but I do enjoy seeing clumsy attempts at suppression blowing up in spectacular fashion. As this one has done.