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[Timothee Cazares]

Aboveis the terrifyingly good music video for Nelly's new single "Hey Porsche." There is no way to get around it; this is an unabashed pop-country song and it's done with the skill and precision of someone who's been making skilled and precise pop-rap since before most of us hit puberty. Reaction to the song has been mixed, at best. Duncan Cooper at Fader started his blog post on it by saying, "This is not a good song," and then goes on to write a fairly comprehensive paragraph on the song anyway. Meanwhile on Noisey's British side, Ryan Bassil called it "terrible" and "amazing" in the span of two sentences. He's only half right, because "Hey Porsche" is nothing short of stunning, and if you don't fully understand that you are on the losing side of the culture war that is engulfing America. It's Wendesday, and I'm already prepared to crown this the Best Thing I Heard This Week.

"Hey Porsche" is clinically perfect, hitting all of the exact same pleasure centers as songs like Taylor Swift's "Love Story," fun.'s "Some Nights," Flo Rida's "I Cry," and R. Kelly's storied remix to "Ignition," the gold standard by which all pop songs of any genre should be judged. "Hey Porsche" uses the same metaphor as a million other songs, that of the motorized vehicle as a metaphor for a girl that Nelly would like to have sex with. Obviously, it is not as good or as nuanced as Prince's "Little Red Corvette" or The-Dream's "Fast Car," but it might be a strong third.

Nelly has always been an artist with something of a split personality, jumping back and forth between making music to flex on people to to making music to soundtrack middle school dances. "Country Nigga Fly," his other recent single, is as hard and uncompromising as anything that might have fallen out of Young Dro's Polo cargo shorts, and we can't forget that the "Hey Porsche" dude is also the guy who started one of his most famous songs by rapping, "It must be ya ass 'cuz it ain't your face."

Nellie the elephant

Packed her trunk

And said goodbye to the circus.

Off she trumped

With a trumpety trump,

Trump, trump, trump.

You really want your daughter to be treated to that song every time she enters a room? Maybe not from the off, but I can guarantee during he teenaged years she would grow to HATE her name.

Nope, Not on your Nelly.

See? Too many references to the name in popular culture.

IMO you have it the wrong way around. I'd have Nelle (or Ellen or Helen or Fenella or Elena or Eleanor or any of those elegant proper names) as the name, and Nelly/ Nellie for a nickname. Otherwise... not on your nelly!

To be honest my friend at school was called Nellie then one day in assembly we were told she was now to be called Kelly. She had been given nick name smelly Nellie.

My other friend called her little girl Nellie and she is 7. She is also nick named Nellie Nellie. My friend is so upset. And thinking of changing it to ellenor . Obviously unrelated friends.

My dd is Polly. Some people like whereyouleftit told me everyone would sing Miss Polly had a dolly or Polly put the kettle on to her all the time. It's never happened.

Live Nell/Nellie - would probably name her Helen or Eleanor though to give her a choice.

Korda, 25, understands how dominant she has been on them. After suffering a double bogey to start her second round of the major Chevron Championship on Friday, she reminded herself about the chances on her best scoring holes.

Korda birdied all four par 5s Friday on her way to a three-under-par 69 that moved her to the top of the leaderboard at seven under as play continued in the afternoon. Through 36 holes, she's six under on Carlton Woods' par 5s.

From the beginning of Korda's win streak at the LPGA Drive On in January through the first two days of the Chevron Championship, she is 43 under on the par 5s, and that accounts for nearly all of her 47-under total in the stretch. Dating back to the records kept since 1992, Korda is on pace to eclipse the par-5 single-season scoring record of 4.45 set by Sei Young Kim in her two-win 2020 campaign. Yuka Saso, the 2021 U.S. Women's Open winner, has the best career average (4.57), with Korda (4.58) in second.

It took Korda capitalizing on par 5s during the final round of her first two victories of 2024 to get her streak started. In her hometown of Bradenton, Fla., she eagled the 499-yard par-5 17th at the Drive On to get to one behind Lydia Ko's clubhouse lead. Korda then birdied the 18th and beat the 20-time winner in a playoff. Outside of Los Angeles last month, Korda eagled the 509-yard 13th in the Fir Hills Seri Pak Championship, giving her the margin of error to still get into a playoff even after bogeying the last two holes.

Korda's caddie, Jason McDede, views her improvements in driving accuracy and chipping as helping Korda have the confidence to attack every par 5 in front of her. Even if she misses the green, Korda's touch with her wedges can still lead to a birdie opportunity.

"I feel like we get to the par 5s," McDede said. "I remind her to have good rhythm. She gets up there. She goes through the process. Hits the golf shot. And then from there, generally speaking, if it's a good one, we're normally going for the green. Honestly, I think it's just really getting to those holes and being locked in."

Korda's on-paper average driving distance (263.1) is 39th on tour this season and a far cry from what one would expect of a player succeeding on the longer holes. However, when she took seven weeks off, Korda missed four events in the heat of southeast Asia, bolstering her peers' driving stats. In the five events she's played, she's averaged 23rd on tour in driving distance. At the Chevron, she was third in length off the tee during the first round (298), facing the longest average par-5 distance (527.8 yards) in the last five starts.

Her 71st-ranked driving accuracy (74.1 percent) this season also is slightly skewed by her schedule. At Shadow Creek for the Match Play last month, one of the toughest venues on the LPGA plays, she hit 64 percent of the fairways, dragging her average down. Removing the outlier performance and including the first two days at Carlton Woods, Korda is hitting 76.1 percent of her fairways, matching her career best from her four-win 2021 season.

"Hit a really good tee shot, and then I was just on the front of the green on [8]," Korda said Thursday. "And the other one I was just on the fringe, too. I two-putted pretty much for birdie on those."

"I'm just at the halfway point right now," Korda said. "The amount of golf that I've played, I still have that to go. There is still a lot of golf left and anything can happen. Just going to stick to my process and vibe with it is what my coach says."

Alison spent her Saturday morning teaching us how to make Wet Nelly, a traditional Liverpool bread pudding. You see, when Alison is not volunteering at the local dog shelter, she spends her time helping people grow by teaching the Taste of Life courses offered by the educational charity www.liverpoolcommunityspirit.org. The program is aimed at adults with learning difficulties as well as prisons in the Liverpool area and is a personal development course focusing on world religions and cultural cooking. The stories that Alison shared with us were just heart warming. Cooking is truly an altruistic act and teaching people to cook helps them to build social skills, bond and grow. There is no doubt that food, is the age old way of breaking down barriers.

Wet Nelly is a dish born out of poverty, during the bombing raids of the 2nd world war Liverpool was devastated. The years following WW2 where stricken with poverty and scares food rations. When people have very little, they make the best they can out of that very little. And Wet Nelly, is just that, a delicious bread pudding made with very little.

My 1st tip is soak the bread well. I tried this recipe twice, the first time around we let it soak only for a few minutes, the second time around I let it soak for 4 hours. The difference was massive, the longer soaked bread pudding stayed moist and soft while the 1st one dried out by the next day.

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