Jay Willis: Haven’t seen a less believable opening anecdote in a long time www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Haven’t seen a less believable opening anecdote in a long time www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

hahahaha snapping their fingers in acclamation, because the NYT holds all its staff meetings at Cafe Wha? in 1959

Fuckin liberal media and their gotcha sandwich questions

Lmfao that’s good

It's true. I've got video of the meeting right here.

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A lot of West Side Story in the thread, but I'm hear to say, I won't stand for this David Bowie erasure! 😆😉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZnr...

David Bowie - Blue Jean (Official Video)www.youtube.com The official music video for David Bowie - Blue Jean Taken from Bowie's 'Tonight' album released in 1984, which featured the singles 'Blue Jean', 'Tonight' a...

That's probably the only Bowie song that I *always* skip over when it appears in a playlist.

How DARE you!?* *me, too.

Oh thank god I hate that fucking song. Only worse one is "China Girl".

Shhhhhhhh.

The song isn't his best (though I don't hate it) but the 20 minute short film the video is taken from is pretty entertaining, albeit the set up is sexist.

I love the way he painted his face on his face in this video. Screaming Lord Byron is an underrated Bowie character.

They all just loved Legally Blonde.

That didn't just not happen, it didn't happen so hard it unhappened things that actually happened.

This is doing numbers. Um... I don't really have anything to promote, but maybe you could send me money since I'm kind of short right now? $BunnyBismuth

Just checked -No record of the War of 1812 in any of my Encyclopedias. It’s completely gone.

I think if Chick Fil A were to pick something to gaslight out of the history books, that would not be the event of choice.

Guess we gotta rally Canadians to burn the white house down again

Isaac Newton was never born. we didn't figure out how gravity works until the mid-19th century. the number of flat earthers in the world is now a thousand times as many ignorant souls.

I think you’ll find it’s mavity now

i so badly wish there was an emoticon for snapping right now

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It's true! Isaac Newton used to have been born on Christmas. But now, thanks to this anecdote, he was born on January 4th!

Ouch. 4 more days of labour for his poor mom....

Well on this side of the Atlantic an entirely new era called «Napoleonic Wars» just appeared out of nowhere. Death and destruction everywhere. Look what you did!!!

OMG, I just saw that! Attributing the invention of guerrilla warfare to annoyed Spaniards during one of these "Napoleonic Wars" instead of it's well-understood origin in the fashion for fur-covered plate armor during jousts under the Holy Roman Emperors was a particularly bizarre touch.

Also, the animal that fur was from is called a gOrilla now.

I read the screenshot twice and I started disappearing and now none of my coworkers recognize me.

Turns out it reversed my circumcision! Thanks, journalist weirdo!

This is a brilliant response.

Is this how the Mandela effect happens?

What do you mean, Arnie was always the guy in Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot

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but chef's kiss to the little aside about the bougie sandwich that brooks' friend could never understand that is what makes good fiction

Looked for this reference, was not disappointed

What's even stupider? Russ & Daughters (founded in 1914) has a location on W. 34th that is literally a 15 minute walk from the NYT Building. Times staffers probably go there *all the time.*

He's the only one who sees things clearly... He thinks that the paper that reports on 50 million dollar weddings in the Hsmptons would be frightened by a local sandwich.

I'm sitting in a dive bar playing pool at 1:30 in the afternoon (don't judge, I'm on vacation) and looking at a $20 burger I think a bunch of writers in NYC could understand his sandwich

A beautiful tribute to a classic of the genre

NYTEU confirmed

omg, had forgotten about that!

The finger snapping just gives it away. Barely less obvious than "everybody clapped"

“Everybody clapped” would make more sense! People at least know about clapping - how did random other new hires know about the snapping????

They all went to Berkeley

They are all Wednesday Addam’s cousins and conquests.

If it was an open mic night in Berkeley, I'd believe the snaps

Underrated skeet.

The Times only hires beatniks.

It's part of your welcome kit to liberalism, along with that card you have to carry around

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