Amanda Peterson Puns

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"Happy Birthday to Amanda Hills Podany, my best friend since high school. Here's a pic of teenaged us conducting a scientific study on potato chip branding. If she wasn't such a brilliant academic mind, she'd be a professional kick-ass bass player, something she's displayed often as an Auxillary Bangle.❤️"

Send me a message if you know one of them!!! From Smyrna, Delaware. Can bring your wallet to you or otherwise I will bring it to lost and found inside the festival grounds tomorrow.

Okay, I know the movie Heathers starred Amanda Peterson as the bitchy blonde alpha Heather. But then I look it up on Wikipedia and I find out the role was played by some dead chick named [Kim Walker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Walker_(actress)). And then I found out Peterson got hooked and drugs and died and she's mainly known for Can't Buy Me Love.

That is crazy, son.

The votes have been cast and counted and it is now time to reveal who the users of R/MMA have chosen to honor with this year’s R/MMA awards.

MMA Podcast of the year

5. Heavy Hands (5%)

6. Morning Kombat (14.8%)

7. Believe You Me (21.3%)

8. Jack Slack Podcast (28%)

9. The MMA Hour (30.9%)

It didn’t take long for Ariel Helwani to announce he was bringing back his podcast The MMA Hour after leaving ESPN in June of 2021. The MMA Hour’s first episode back aired in August of 2021 and the podcast immediately reclaimed its old slot as one of the most influential media outlets in the sport. Ariel mixed fighter interviews, analysis, and feuds with other members of the MMA world to make The MMA Hour bigger than ever. Not bad for a podcast that wasn’t around for more than half of the year.

Best MMA IG/Twitter Account

5. twitter.com/Grabaka_Hitman (9.8%)

3t) twitter.com/darrentill2 (17.4%)

3t) twitter.com/KPetersonUFC (17.4%)

2. intagram.com/thebeastufc (23.2%)

3. twitter.com/ARIELHELWANI (32.3%)

Ariel Helwani’s Twitter account was time and again the place MMA fans turned to find breaking news about the sport. Whether it was fight cancellations, fight announcements, clips of interviews with fighters and other personalitues, or Ariel just giving his takes on the sport itself his Twitter was a relaible source of information for fans of the sport.

Best MMA Website

5. fightmatrix.com (0.8%)

6. mmafightcards.org (2.2%)

7. 4chan/sp (3.3%)

8. tapology.com (9.2%)

9. R/MMA (84.5%)

Hey look we gave ourselves this award. However, it is hard to argue that there is a better source for mma online than r/mma. Over 1.7 million users come together every day to discuss breaking news, share highlights, watch interviews and press conferences, watch the fights together, engage with the fighters in AMAs, and share the occasional shitpost. Here’s to another great year in 2022.

Gym of the Year

5. MMA Factory (5.7%)

6. Tiger Muay Thai (14.2%)

7. American Top Team (16.9%)

8. Elavation Fight Team (30.5%)

9. City Kickboxing (32.6%)

Eugene Bareman and Doug Viney’s gym has made a name for itself as the top gym in Oceania producing UFC Champions Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski. Whil Volkanovski has since left the gym, there is no doubt it’s role in his rise to the title. On top of their 2 champions, City Kickboxing is home to 3 other ranked UFC fighters in Brad Riddell, Dan Hooker, and Kai Kara-France along with numerous other fighters both in the UFC and on

I have way too much time on my hands so I decided to make this lol. Maybe I'll update it with future returnee seasons, I don't rly know, I just thought this would be fun since I'm super into Survivor statistics and shit.

• Natalie Anderson: 1.5
• Michele Fitzgerald: 2
• Ben Driebergen: 3
• Reiman Bledsoe: 3 (or 3.5 if you consider him a 3rd placer instead of 2nd placer in Cambodia)
• Tai Trang, Denise Stapley: 3.5
• Nick Wilson: 4
• Tasha Fox: 4 (or 4.5 if you consider her a 3rd placer instead of 2nd placer in Cambodia)
• Keith Nale, Big Tom, Danielle DiLorenzo, John Cochran: 4.5
• Amanda Kimmel: 4.67
• Kim Spradlin-Wolfe, Erik Reichenbach, Gervase Peterson: 5
• Sarah Lacina: 5.33
• Sophie Clarke, Troyzan Robertson, Stephen Fishbach. Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien, Jenna Lewis: 5.5
• Parvati Shallow, Abi-Maria Gomes, Phillip Sheppard, Lex can den Berghe, Aras Baskauskas: 6
• Dawn Meehan: 6 (or 6.5 if you consider her a 3rd placer instead of 2nd placer in Caramoan)
• Colby Donaldson, Jeremy Collins, Coach Wade: 6.33
• Adam Klein, Courtney Yates, Kelly Wiglesworth, REDACTED: 6.5
• Andrea Boehlke: 6.67
• Ozzy Lusth: 6.75
• Tony Vlachos, Wendell Holland, FFGCSDTA, Eliza Orlins: 7
• Cirie Fields: 7.25
• Jerri Manthey: 7.33
• Russel Hantz: 7.33 (11.25 if you count AUS Survivor)
• Yul Kwon, David Wright, Richard Hatch: 7.5
• Aubry Bracco, Tina Wesson: 7.67
• Brenda Lowe, Laura Morret, Kass McQuillen, Woo Hwang, Alicia Calaway, Shii Ann Huang, Monica Culpepper: 8
• Sandra Diaz-Twine: 8.25
• Ami Cusack, Sue Hawk, Brad Culpepper, Tom Westman, Jenna Morasca: 8.5
• Boston Rob: 8.6
• Tyson Apostol: 8.75
• Amber Mariano, JT Thomas, Kimmi Kappenberg, Terry Deitz, Rob Cesternino: 9
• Kelley Wentworth, James Clement, Stephenie LaGrossa: 9.33
• Rupert Boneham, Zeke Smith, Corinne Kaplan, Bobby Jon Drinkard: 9.5
• Jonathan Penner: 9.67
• Ethan Zohn, Malcolm Freberg, Danni Boatwright, Debbie Wanner, Rudy Boesch: 10
• Michaela Bradshaw, Kat Edorsson, Brandon Hantz: 10.5
• Joe Anglim, Candice Cody: 10.67
• Yau-Man Chan, Andrew Savage: 11
• Monica Padilla, Peih-Gee Law, Sugar Kiper, Jonny Fairplay: 11.5
• Ciera Eastin: 11.67
• Hali Ford: 12
• Randy Bailey: 13
• Shirin Oskooi: 13.5
• Jeff Varner: 13.67
• Russell Swan: 14.5
• Vytas Baskauskas: 15
• Colton Cumbie: 16
• Caleb Reynolds: 16.5
• Francesca Hogi: 19

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It doesn’t get much more Gothic than France in 1348. This book is so gothic I'm tempted to use it for my Gothic Fantasy square. I really want that to be one of the ultimates in the genre, you know?

At the same time, I wanted my Genre Mashup book to excel in every genre it smooshed together, and Between Two Fires certainly did that. As a historical, it was well-researched not just in its setting details but in its ability to convey the mindset of another place and time. As a horror, it did quietly creepy just as well as in-your-face brutality. And the vividness of the fantastical elements were on par with any high fantasy title, with character archetypes that would appeal to fans of grittier, sword and sorcery style fantasy.

Also, all of the content warnings. None of it felt tasteless or without purpose, but I’m thinking in particular of a scene involving a dead infant and the frequent threats of sexual assault. The horror is just a lot even when you’re prepared, and I’d hate for someone to go in unprepared.

In fact, here’s a brief but not comprehensive list of fairly neutral things that are creepy/scary now because of this book:

1. Fish
2. Hands
3. Knocks at the door of the house down the street
4. Broomsticks
5. Jellyfish
6. Hands again (“A f****** hand!”)

OTHER BINGO SQUARES:

Backlist Book (Normal)

Revenge-Seeking Character (Normal)

Found Family (Hard Mode)

Has Chapter Titles (Hard Mode)

SUMMARY: And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…”

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict.

Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.

*As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Many thanks to u/Unknown_Seagull for recommending this weird little book to me in the distant past of 6 months ago. While I can’t meaningfully compare it to the original French version, I thought the English translation conveyed the story, tone, and style really well.

I had a dim awareness of Harry Dickson, The American Sherlock Holmes, but didn’t make the connection that this was the same author who wrote those pulp detective stories (over a hundred within seven years!) until I read the introduction to Malpertuis. It turns out Ray was asked to translate the stories from German, but found them so bad that he asked his publisher if he could rewrite them instead. The publisher was like, “Sure, Jean. Whatever. Just make sure they’re the same length and still match the covers.”

Why do I bring this up? Because this boss move is just one of many anecdotes about Jean Ray that paints a picture of a fascinating personality with a jaw-dropping work ethic and a prodigious capacity for playing games with the truth. He truly deserves an Author Appreciation post by someone more familiar with his oeuvre, but I’ll try to keep this focused on Malpertuis, a hidden gem for fans of Gormenghast, House of Leaves, and The Haunting of Hill House.

If you think that tells you all you need to know, I’m begging you to trust that feeling and go in as blind as you can. DO NOT GO TO WIKIPEDIA. It’s only a stub, but it describes the entire book in one line that completely spoils one of the coolest things about it. Dun do it.

OTHER BINGO SQUARES:

First Person POV (Hard Mode)

New to You Author (Hard Mode probably)

Mystery Plot (Normal)

SUMMARY: Malpertuis is a puzzle box of nested narratives wrested from a set of manuscripts stolen from a monastery. A bizarre collection of distrustful relatives has gathered together in the ancient stone mansion of a sea-trading dynasty for the impending death of the occult scientist, Uncle Cassave, and the reading of his will. Forced to dwell together for the remainder of their lives within the stifling walls of Malpertuis for the sake of a cursed inheritance, their banal existence gradually gives way to love affairs and secret plots, as the building slowly exposes a malevolence that eventually leads to a series of ghastly deaths.

*The eccentric personalities it houses―which include an obsessive taxidermist, a hypochondriac, a trio of vengeful sisters and a former paint store manager who has gone mad―begin to she

Hello there!

This year, I'm doing a themed bingo square with trans or nonbinary characters in every book. As such, I've spent a lot of time (too much time) compiling books that fit for each square. I had originally intended to post this list after finishing my board with a write-up, but seeing as we are past halfway through the bingo year and I'm on track to finish pretty late, I’ve decided to put this up early so it can hopefully actually be helpful for people still looking to fill their boards.

Books are listed under each category they fit, but I didn’t always check for some of the harder ones (eg. first person, forest setting) if they fit something obvious (eg. published in 2021, cat squasher). Books are sourced from the recommendations thread, the focus thread, the queersff database, readsrainbow, various Goodreads lists, and various threads in other subreddits. Also, disclaimer, I haven't read all these, so categorizations may be inaccurate. Please let me know if you notice that this is the case, or if there are any books I should add or remove!

Without further ado, here's my list of 250+ books that qualify for the trans/NB character square plus at least one other square:

Five Short Stories

Behind the Sun, Above the Moon edited by Brooklyn Ray

Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories by Sandra McDonald

Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K Jarboe

Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die edited by Dave Ring

Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead

Love: Beyond Body, Space, and Time edited by Hope Nicholson

Maiden, Mother, and Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes edited by Gwen Benaway

Meanwhile, Elsewhere edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett

No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll

Portland Diary: Short Stories 2016/2017 by Jamie Berrout

The Other Side: An Anthology of Queer Paranormal Romance edited by Melanie Gillman and Kori Michele Handwerker

Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers ed. by Ly

They were cooked in Greece.

Experts

Dr. Robert W. Malone, who holds patents in the base technology for all the western COVID-19 vaccines https://www.rwmalonemd.com/mrna-vaccine-docs. To this day, his work involves virology, immunology, infectious disease, mRNA technology, and pharmaceuticals.

Peter McCullough, one of the world's top cardiologists and professor at Texas Christian University & University of North Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine and editor-in-chief of the journals Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiorenal Medicine with 850 research works with 41,545 citations.

Dr. Robert L. Bard, internationally recognized for his advanced clinical work in non-invasive cancer diagnostic imaging.

Dr. Tess Lawrie, director at Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy Limited and EbMC Squared CiC, whose work involves giving recommendations to the World Health Organization on treatment protocols for disease.

Professor Luc Montagnier, recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus that refers to the Covid vaccination program as an "unacceptable mistake".

Dr. Franz Allerberger, Chief Epidemiologist of Austria- Dr. Michael Yeadon, former Former Vice President and Chief Science Officer of Pfizer for 16 years. Founder of successful pharma start-up.

Dr. Knut Wittkowski, a world class epidemiologist, who last worked at Rockefeller University in NY as Head, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, Center for Clinical & Translational Science.

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, the most cited microbiologist in German academic history.- Dr. Scott Jensen, Family Doctor, Minnesota State Senator, Voted Best Minnesota Family Doctor in 2016.

Dr. Simone Gold, doctor, lawyer, and founder of America's Frontline Doctors.

Michael Levitt, Stanford Prof. of Biophysics, Cambridge PhD and DSc, 2013 Chemistry Nobel Laureate (complex systems), FRS & US National Academy member.

Professor Martin Kulldorff, Professor at Harvard Medical School. Disease surveillance methods. Infectious disease outbreaks. Vaccine safety.

Dr. Claus Köhnlien, specialist in internal medicine in the Dept. of Oncology, Univ. of Kiel. Private Physician.

Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, former Publish Health officer, former German Parliament member and Council of Europe member

Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, Independent Vaccine Research Consultant Vaccine Discovery & Preclinical Research.

Dr. Pierre Kory,ICU & Lung Doc, Teacher/Researcher. Co-Develope

“I’ll trust a doctor over a mom on Facebook.”

Ok cool👍🏼. Here ya go. A huge list of doctors willing to risk everything they have to get you the truth and the information you need.

Don’t go to Google—search for them on uncensored search engines and platforms such as Duck Duck Go, Telegram, Bitchute, and Rumble. Happy digging. Although, ya might not be too happy about everything they are coming forward about.

Hint: if it’s being censored, you NEED to read it.

Tip: copy and paste this list to save to the notes on your phone in case this post gets removed for “not following community guidelines” because, you know, heaven forbid you listen to THESE doctors.

Dr. Michael Yeadon (Former Pfizer VP) Dr. Robert Malone (mRNA inventor) Dr. Peter McCullough (most published on CV) Dr. Vladimir Zelenko (Nobel PP Nominee) Dr. Kary Mullis (PCR inventor/Nobel PP winner) Dr. Rima Laibow Dr. Naomi Wolf Dr. David Martin Dr. Luc Montainger Dr. Roger Hodkinson Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche Dr. Sherri Tenpenny Dr. Judy Mitkovitz Dr. Carrie Madej Dr. Vernon Coleman Dr. Ben Tapper Dr. Michael Lake Dr. Christiane Northrop Dr. Simone Gold Dr. Sean Brooks Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai Dr. Jane Ruby Dr. Ryan Cole Dr. Kevin Stillwagon Dr. Afzal Niaz Dr. Rashid A.Buttar Dr. Paul Thomas Dr. Vanessa Passov Dr. Jessica Rose Dr. Christopher Rake Dr. Charles Hoffe Dr. Mark Mcdonald Dr. Jeff Barke Dr. Andrew Kaufman Dr. Manuel Alonso Dr. Amir Shahar Dr. Patrick Phillips Dr. Bryan Ardis Dr. Franc Zalewski Dr. Daniel Griffin Dr. Zandra Botha Dr. Rochagné Kilian Dr. Joseph Mercola Dr. James Lyons-Weiler Dr. Henry Ealy Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Dr. Michael Palmer Dr. Eddy Bettermann MD Dr. Harvey Risch Dr. Steven Hotze Dr. Dan Stock Dr. Sam Duby Dr. Francis Christian Dr. Chris Milburn Dr. John Carpay Dr. Richard Fleming Dr. Gina Gold Dr. Kevin Corbett Dr. Michael Mcdowell Dr. John Witcher Dr. Jim Meehan Dr. Chris Shaw Dr. Anne McCloskey Dr. Reiner Fuellmich Dr. Christiana Parks Dr. Robert Young Dr. Amandha Vollmer Dr. Judy Wilyman Dr. Michael McConville Dr. Stella Immanuel Dr. James Nellenschwander Dr. Julie Ponesse Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi Dr. Paul Cottrell Dr. Lee Merritt Dr. Rochagne Killian Dr. Larry Palevsky Dr. Natalia Prego Cancelo Dr. Hilde de Smet Dr. Elizabeth Evans Dr. Brian Hooker Dr. Joel Hirschhorn Dr. R. Zac Cox Dr. Mohammed Adil Dr. Ralph ER Sundberg Dr. Johan Denis Dr. Daniel Cullum Dr. Anne Fierlafijin Dr. Kevin Corbett Dr. Pior Rubis Dr. Pascal Sacre Dr. Nicole Delepine Dr. Lorraine Day Dr. Y

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