152. National Butterscotch Pudding Day's Eve

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Lords:

• Alex
• Shannon

Topics:

• Rebranding a Country
• The single-celled dog
• Joe Hart still hasn't cleared out the vampire dens
  • https://imgur.com/a/ODW4pBI
• i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious.
  • https://tooquirkytolose.tumblr.com/post/689145075338543104
• National Butterscotch Pudding Day (Sep 19)

Microtopics:

• Tying on the tiebreaker.
• Cambodian street food.
• Topic Time!!
• Two countries in the process of changing their names.
• Whether sovereignty was ceded.
• Tourism videos encouraging people to pronounce your country's name correctly.
• History continuing to happen after you leave high school.
• Changing your name to North Your Name to get an alliance with NATO.
• A bonanza for globe manufacturers.
• The United States of Mexico.
• Germany's reaction to the United States changing its name to The United States of Germany.
• Playing the wrong Korea's national anthem by mistake.
• Switching to Roguelike Alphabetical Order so Zimbabwe doesn't always go last.
• What does it mean to be a particular kind of animal?
• Transmissible cancer.
• A breed of dog that no longer exists as a dog but does exist as a strain of transmissible cancer.
• CTVT.
• HeLa cells.
• Whether Henrietta Lacks is still alive.
• How to fix 20,000 years of evolution.
• A dog that is unlike extant dogs.
• When you decide to change your evolutionary niche from macro to microorganism.
• Cancer that is smart enough to not kill its host.
• How cancer interacts with your mutant healing factor.
• What this is and why it's happening to you.
• Why a two year old wants to play in a copper mine.
• What kind of mines New England vampires lived in.
• Rearranging a corpse so that the vampire can't walk.
• No Arizona Mine Draculas.
• Joe Hart: defending our vampires.
• Change that you can really make, if you live in Arizona.
• Not getting the Google results you want because of sports mans.
• The pros and cons of vampire bats.
• Abandoned mines serving as habitats for 28 bat species that are crucial to the local ecology.
• Persons currently experiencing vampirism.
• Can't Have Shitting Gotham.
• Adding line breaks to someone's complaint about a glow in the dark star to make a poem.
• The imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white.
• A life situation that is so poignant that it's impossible to write a poem about, so you describe it in prose and wait for a Tumblr user to come and add some line breaks.
• A monologue that you could read in many different ways.
• Returning to Tumblr because you have more thoughts on the painted-over star.
• Responding to every text from your daughter as if it's a formal letter to a long-lost cousin.
• Putting glow in the dark eyeballs on your closet door.
• Putting you pudding under the Pudding Tree for Father Pudding.
• How you grow the Pudding Tree.
• Werther's Compromise.
• Using Werther's Originals as dentures and you have to replace them every hour.
• Removing the butter from scotch to get butterscotch.
• Soft crack vs. hard crack.
• Those terrifying Pillsbury tins that you bang on the counter and they explode and breadsticks come out.
• How to determine if your candy in progress is in the soft ball stage.
• What is pudding?
• Having an existential crisis on Butterscotch Pudding Day.
• Butterscotch Buttercream Frosting.
• All the Lords that are fit to print.