Alas, the suck

There seems to be a good deal of suckage flying round this week. I can't say I'm immune from it, but it's like my house is luckily positioned at the fringe of the storm while the Eye of Suck is tearing up a different part of the neighborhood. So if you are suffering from degrees of suckage right now, much sympathy to you.

To help tide us over the suck, there's this:

Best Salmon Commercial Ever

One of my favorite cartoons (YouTube version)

Yoinked from gollumgollum

For the benefit of all academicites out there: This is so true

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I just realized that "plot coupon" plots, although one of the most despised plots in the fantasy genre, are actually pretty realistic.

Witness "in order to do task x, you must first talk to the three random people in BH, and follow their directions to the mysterious tower from which you can obain form 2a, which upon close reading will lead you to form 2b, which will need you to get the signature of someone in a completely different part of campus..."

Le sigh.