They knew what they signed up for.

Wh… what are the consequences of this?

I’m just amazed by how narrowly targeted this joke is: the setting must have seemed so relatable and ubiquitous at the time, but is almost indecipherable now…

Is this a joke about motor brushes and electromagnetic interference?..

Let Lisa live like Lisa likes, lookitsjustin!

They must have used frame stacking to get everything into focus like this, I imagine…

That’s a great ad. A pity that it’s an ad and that it’s an ad for a billboard company, but nice work nonetheless.

Need to color in square nr. 8 I suppose:

That’s true. In the end nothing lasts, not even the greatest achievement magnified one thousand or one billion times. Time and the vast universe will wash away and dilute it all into background noise on any scale you can imagine.

One can only have their time and their space, and no more.

It must have been only a few days or so after the detonation, since the dog died from radiation poisoning just then.

Also, electricity was still running.

The fable of Ozymandias is doubly meaningful. Because Ozymandias was the Greek name for Ramses II, who happened to be

commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Ramesses II is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom, which itself was the most powerful period of ancient Egypt. He is also widely considered one of ancient Egypt’s most successful warrior pharaohs, conducting no fewer than 15 military campaigns, all resulting in victories, excluding the Battle of Kadesh, which is generally considered a stalemate. His 66-year rule was also the longest recorded reign of any pharaoh.

He was the epitome of ancient Egypt, which is itself the epitome of ancient civilizations. The dude was fully right to boast after all!

Make the biggest threats, buy on the dip; tout great progress, sell on the rise. It’s a perfectly reasonable activity for a president.

It’s a reverse nazi, so it cancels out the previous nazi, you see.

Both are admirable aspirations! And remember, if one doesn’t work out, you can always try the other.

But he plays one on TV in government!

He sounds worse now…

It’s more complicated:

In his song “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” songwriter Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf explicitly name several things the singer will never do.

Lie to you
Forget the way you feel right now
Forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight
Do it better than I do it with you
Stop dreaming of you every night of my life
See that it's time to move on
Be screwing around 

Meat Loaf explained in interviews that because the line “I’d do anything for love” is repeated several times right before the final refrain, listeners simply forget the specific preceding line (“I’ll never stop dreaming of you”) that defines “that”.

I just cancelled my monthly donation, explaining that this situation is the reason.

So you’re not upset at the witchery implication - just that someone was “burned” at the stake?

Have you looked at the story at all recently, or are you coasting along on allegations and jokes from 1990s tabloids?

Wikipedia is usually pretty neutral about such things. Give the article a skim, and see if it matches what you believe about the whole story.

I’m sorry, but this really bad in so many ways. And no I don’t mean shake-my-head laughing bad. It makes me sad to see such mean crap glorified.