I don’t care if it’s wrong, Marilyn Manson had his ribs removed so he could blow himself
I still want whoever decided that “I before E except after C” should be taught to children locked up. Im almost 50, and I still spell “their” wrong if I dont concentrate.
“I before E exthept after ‘th’” should do the trick. Just have to remember that the last part is pronounced “thee”.

“I before E, except after C, or when sounded as ‘ay,’ like in ‘Neighbour’ and ‘Weigh.’”

…Or when running a feisty heist with their weird, foreign neighbour, Keith.

They taught you that in school?
I learned that in middle school. It was from a kid on the bus but it was still middle school.
You do your most important learning outside of the classroom
Believe it or not, this rumor actually stretches all the way back to dianunzio from Italy in the 1940s.
Oh so we graduated almost at the same time it seems.
He responded to this rumor in his autobiography saying “If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own dick on The Wonder Years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own dick? I think I’m gonna call the surgeon in the morning”
Brian Warner can fuck right off tho