Sam Corbin
@samcorbin.bsky.social
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🏁 crossword column for @nytimes.com ✍️ humor for NYer 📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse
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also I didn't have any rice on-hand so it's sitting in a bowl of farro, jic you need more material
I dropped my phone into my pho. there is a punchline here I just know it
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On Lt Columbo Day never let us forget the episode where Columbo explains to a fitness guru how Mrs Columbo is thick, that he likes her thick, and how he will do anything within his power to keep her thick
Screenshot from Columbo where Peter falk explains to Robert Conrad he likes his wife thick
they better not try anything, I have repacked the boxes three times now
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
same. parents’ names, birthdays and sometimes even home addresses, it was just a default
this book has wordplay specific to every day of the year. tell me your birthday, and I will reveal your topsy-turvy prophecy
holding up the book “An Almanac of Words at Play” by Willard Espy
it is becoming clear that I booked myself a writer’s retreat upstate just to procrastinate in prettier rooms
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Foaming! At the Mouth
it occurs to me that the word “refined” is good when applied to taste but bad when applied to sugar/food….and we “taste” food….black mirror episode
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leaf-peep, past tense leaf-pept
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unhinged things i see on hinge /17 (i approve of this one)
Prompt is something that’s a Non-negotiable for me is. Reply is at my funeral i want there to be a big live laugh love sign with the live crossed out.
omg, incredible loophole
Reminder: if you are not fasting on Yom Kippur, you can just eat today, and it's as if you are fasting today AND tomorrow 🤷‍♀️

I didn't make the rule, the Talmud (Berachot 8b) did.

Seriously though, eat a lot today, every bite is a good deed (mitzvah) 🤔
oh my goodness! i’m honored to have made it in!!
just realized that “copypasta” is a play on “copy-paste” and I’m hearing it with a delightful Italian lilt
going to one of my office’s soundproof booths so that I can choke on water in silence
shocked to discover that my editor kept my unhinged headline for this newsletter about mnemonics, “Finding Mnemo”
A snapshot of the Gameplay newsletter, titled “Finding Mnemo.”
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"edgelord" is such a great coinage, because it sounds as if it's about to describe something really stupid and then it does
not to brag but my husband’s name is in the NATO alphabet
for anyone curious, it was still delicious?? turns out that even overproofing cannot defeat the power of fresh bread
ok so you basically hate it
I have truly outdone myself. the width. the lack of height. the absent knots. no, don’t look away
maple syrup and nondairy milk for the egg wash, and stand by for results…the loaf has thus far expanded sideways but not upwards
stay tuned for morning as I attempt to salvage whatever this loaf is trying to become