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Keep talking fuckers, it only moves your names higher on the list when the time comes. They will get their desserts.
lol I love this—but the phrase is actually “just deserts”
Well, actually, it's "just desserts".
Nope. It’s pronounced “desserts” but actually it’s an old phrase and is spelled “deserts.”
Huh, well I was confidently incorrect. TIL.
The fastest way to get the right answer is to be wrong on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln never said that!
It was Napoleon.
Napoleon… Dynamite!
Yeah I only learned that pretty recently myself. I was very excited to get to share that useless bit of trivia when I saw the comment lol