Tom in Maryland

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@OliviaSiciliano @HOUSEPORN___ It's pretty damn close

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@wrathofgnon It's Japan, they could leave the store open at night with no clerk and a sign at the register saying "Honor System: check yourself out and pay".

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@nlyonne @OldNavy @bakeupofficial @vernonfrancois Kind of amazing that you promote both Old Navy and Bergdorf Goodman, and it works. Kind of like mixing Wal-Mart with Van Cleef and Arpels. You can walk between worlds

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@DaveCEsquire @joshstifter This is an outstanding movie and film schools use it to teach setups and payoffs

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@MattyWorthy32B @joshstifter @MingNa we love you

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@joshstifter Critters
Tank
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Street Fighter
Enemy Mine
Godzilla vs Megalon
The Return of Captain Nemo

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

I think this is one of the hardest six-month stretches of my life coming up, between funding the hospital, getting it built, staffed, and creating all the protocols that we need to launch it.

We really are starting to head towards the home stretch now. I have to be honest if it wasn't for Tina I don't think we would have got this far. It's a phenomenally hard thing to do to build a hospital in Thailand but every single day I wake up in the morning and I think of Tina. It pushes myself and the whole team forwards to create something incredible for these street dogs.

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@TheCriticalDri2 It's almost like Jean Grey has a suppressed darker side

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@TheCriticalDri2

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@Watchman_motto Sir, that is a brown corderoy blazer town if I've ever seen one

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@nlyonne

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@nlyonne It's like if William F. Buckley were a hot chick

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@nlyonne @Fendi @CSiriano @MaisonValentino @philcellphone @pamelalovenyc You look great although the sunglasses seem pushed up too high, like they're not resting on your nose any more

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@nlyonne

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@Birdyword These days you're lucky if they bring everyone's food at the same time

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@VHSDVDBLURAY4K

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@EcchiSketch13 @nlyonne I ask myself that every other time she tweets. It's kind of a mental exercise to see if I can understand this fellow human who in some ways seems very simpatico but in (many) others thinks so differently to me she is practically an alien lifeform.

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@nlyonne I think you could play this. Would definitely be interesting. Who would your crew of droogs be?

[Tom in Maryland @packleaderTom]

@zillowgonewild How do you like my quasi-futuristic house, Mr. Powers? I designed it myself