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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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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 21h

also I didn't have any rice on-hand so it's sitting in a bowl of farro, jic you need more material

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 21h

I dropped my phone into my pho. there is a punchline here I just know it

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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 2d

they better not try anything, I have repacked the boxes three times now

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

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?

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 2d

same. parents’ names, birthdays and sometimes even home addresses, it was just a default

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 2d

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

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 3d

it is becoming clear that I booked myself a writer’s retreat upstate just to procrastinate in prettier rooms

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Allison @ajoff.bsky.social · 6d

Foaming! At the Mouth

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 8d

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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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 12d

leaf-peep, past tense leaf-pept

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 14d

omg, incredible loophole

Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 14d

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) 🤔

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 14d

oh my goodness! i’m honored to have made it in!!

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 14d

just realized that “copypasta” is a play on “copy-paste” and I’m hearing it with a delightful Italian lilt

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16d

going to one of my office’s soundproof booths so that I can choke on water in silence

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16d

readable here for the week, I think?
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Gameplay: Finding Mnemo

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 16d

shocked to discover that my editor kept my unhinged headline for this newsletter about mnemonics, “Finding Mnemo”

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20d

"edgelord" is such a great coinage, because it sounds as if it's about to describe something really stupid and then it does

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 21d

not to brag but my husband’s name is in the NATO alphabet

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 21d

for anyone curious, it was still delicious?? turns out that even overproofing cannot defeat the power of fresh bread

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 22d

ok so you basically hate it

Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 22d

I have truly outdone myself. the width. the lack of height. the absent knots. no, don’t look away

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 22d

maple syrup and nondairy milk for the egg wash, and stand by for results…the loaf has thus far expanded sideways but not upwards

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Sam Corbin @samcorbin.bsky.social · 22d

stay tuned for morning as I attempt to salvage whatever this loaf is trying to become

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