{"id":591,"date":"2009-05-05T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=591"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:02:27","slug":"entry-164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Humor feeding itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A section of an IM conversation with a college friend tonight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> So, Amy&#8217;s going to end up in Detroit teaching some folks about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drupal<\/a>.<br><strong>Tony:<\/strong> Cool. Are they providing a flak jacket?<br><strong>Me:<\/strong> Quite possibly. We also figure she needs to take an extra $50 with her so that she can buy a house and a few acres of land.<br><strong>Tony:<\/strong> Heck. With $50 she could buy half of GM.<br><strong>Me:<\/strong> &#8230;and all of Chrysler.<br><strong>Tony:<\/strong> *LOL*<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Tony was my roommate for a year. We lived in a&nbsp;ghetto-like apartment, him this big black guy, and me the scrawny little white boy. I used to joke occasionally that I was his bodyguard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, Tony is the <em>king<\/em> of the snappy comeback. Keeping up with him for a few lines tonight was an accomplishment. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A section of an IM conversation with a college friend tonight: Me: So, Amy&#8217;s going to end up in Detroit teaching some folks about Drupal.Tony: Cool. Are they providing a flak jacket?Me: Quite possibly. We also figure she needs to take an extra $50 with her so that she can buy a house and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,20],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}