lobsticle 🦞

It sounds like what you are looking for is a form of an object request broker. Provide the name of a class as a string (or, if the set of desired objects is more constrained, an integer or enum or something similar) and then build an instance based on that key. Generally, all these objects typically inherit from some base class like Object so that the broker can return an Object* and the client can dynamic cast it down to the actual thing. I’ve used a pattern like this in the past that worked pretty well using macro magic to enable classes eligible to be instantiated through the broker (register the key and the class name with the broker). This was pre-C++03, so doubtless there are cleaner and more modern ways to implement such a thing these days.

There are fine edible products that you could ingest which would have a similar effect without the need to smoke or vaporize it.

After School Satan Club would be such a great name for a band.

The Wang Gang strikes again!

We need to find out what churches folks like this are being indoctrinated in and forcibly shut them down.

Very disappointing not to see an #if 0 (my personal go-to for decades) in this meme. 😞

Love it. Learned so much as a teenager about what was healthy and normal from her radio show in the 80s.

There is so much to unwrap here.

This is good too.

I thought OP was looking for minced oaths that could be used in its place, and this is the first thing that came to mind for me. I use this one all the time because I try not to drop the big one around my five- and three-year-olds.

And the program finally completed today! 🎉

Bystander: She’s apneic and has no pulse! I’m beginning CPR!

Commences compressions

Patient: Uh actually I have a boyfriend

I’m not super familiar with a lot of 3EB’s work, but I do like “How’s It Gonna Be”, and you’re absolutely right, they lean on that third pretty hard as a melodic element. The third tends to be sung a lot against the ii in that particular song (so yielding a ii9), but when they do use the IV, I notice the melody will often do the same, and it serves as kind of a tension breaker given how much emphasis is given to the third against the other chords leading up to the IV. The bass line is also great in this song, not just using the root of the chord, but different degrees and transitions between them for interest. That said, I can’t speak to the rest of their catalogue.

🎶🎵 The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down… 🎵🎶

Great. Something new to have nightmares about.