I'll start my own political party / With blackjack and hookers
A bender blackjack and hookers post.
You decide to start your own project because the committee is useless. The first meeting is in your head, and it already has a better agenda, a snack budget and a logo. Someone in the group chat says "we should do our own thing". Forty minutes later there is a shared document, a name, and a rule that nobody from the old group is allowed in. It has blackjack, sort of. Your team's tools are slow, so you build your own over a weekend. It has one feature, a dark mode, and a login page that works only on Thursdays. You are thrilled. The meeting overruns again, and you say, quietly and without any proof, that you could do this better yourself. Three hours of reading later, you have a plan, a mission statement and no sleep. **Why it caught on:** the picture is Bender, the foul-mouthed robot from the animated series Futurama, in a white fur coat, pointing and looking furious. The line comes from the show, where he declares he'll make his own theme park, with blackjack and hookers, and people reused it for anything where someone storms off to start a better version of a thing. It spread because the format is simple: name a grand plan, then add the same two extras to it.