Mechanismatic

And now the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

(Why did my autocorrect suggest Hadrian’s chicken?)

The history they taught you in school was wrong. The wall was built to keep out the chicken.

“Sorry, guys, but I gotta bail.”

Yeah, it can be controversial. Best not to plant it near a foundation. There are few in a mostly empty field near where I live and another few in a park where the trees are spread out.

Empress Tree. Paulownia tomentosa

It has fragrant purple flowers shaped like fox glove that bloom and fall April and May.

No, I read yesterday (Lightning McQueen) as juxtaposed with today (Thomas the Tank Engine), as if you were implying that Lightning McQueen predated Thomas the Tank Engine and TTTE was a newish show.

I’m not sure I understand the “yesterday’s” part. Thomas the Tank Engine predates Cars by decades.

You have it backwards. It actually used to be the standard.

“Until the 18th century, the apostrophe was extensively used to indicate plural forms. Its use for indicating plural “possessive” forms was not standard before the middle of the 19th century.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe

But in language, generally, usage can alter standards, so you may see a shift of grammarians saying it’s acceptable if enough people see it as valid.

I’ve had dreams where I’ve pulled out my phone to take a picture of something beautiful that I want to remember and then I wake up upset that I didn’t actually take the picture.