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A popular if snarky response to the horrible behavior of someone else’s kids goes a little like this: You need a license to own a pet, but they’ll let anybody have a child.

Much of Grok's snarky tone is drawn from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, iconic for blending wit with sci-fi absurdity.

At the same meeting, the city attorney tendered his resignation and the mayor tried to end the meeting by threatening to walk out — all to a chorus of snarky comments and jeers of irate residents.

“I can’t even get openly angry on the dais. I can get snarky. I can get passionate, but if I get angry I get written off.”

I asked the Roundtable whether it had anything to add, and got a rather snarky response from Michael Steel, its head of communications, that my question “seems a bit OTBE’ed at the moment.”