I wrote a book review junior year of high school, and I got a D----! She said she couldn’t give me an F because it was clear that I had read the book, no matter how much I hated it and trashed it. I don’t remember what the damn book was, but the main character became born again, and I didn’t think it made the…

The only stuff I’ve ever dipped a fry into was one time I dipped one into a Frosty to see if I liked it. It was OK, but I prefer my fries with just salt on them. Ketchup? Hell no. Ranch? I shudder with disgust.

When I bought my used ‘79 Trans Am in 1981, one of the first things I did was shim the front of the driver’s seat up so I didn’t have to keep pushing myself back all the time. Under the seat in the otherwise super clean car was a complete large order of McDonald’s fries, in the red sleeve, just sitting there. They…

When my dogs King and Molly were younger, we used to take them to this one place about an hour away that had a “dog porch”. King loved it, loved the people, and most of the other dogs. As long as he was left alone, he was fine, if another dog got aggressive, it was time to go, as he wasn’t going to take it, no matter…

As a mayo hater, I don’t even understand the concept of a lobster roll made with it. I’ve only had one lobster roll in my life, a hot one with butter on a better than I’ve ever seen before hot dog bun. Great! I wouldn’t even want to go near one made with mayo.

I would have to say my ‘85 Caravan was pretty miserable, all because of that weak as could be 2.6 Mitsubishi engine. We were moving my friend’s little brother down to Ohio State in 1989, and due to a last minute pullout of a Suburban and it’s ahole owner, we were stuck with my Caravan, or my friend’s parent’s Camry,…

Screw extractors are my #1, with box/combo wreches a close second, not because of the tool itself, but time after time I had to go buy a cheap one and heat it up with a torch and bend it to get it to work at a useful angle where it stayed on and allowed meaningful movement at the same time. A distant third is any “Cres…

They did that a couple of times and found out that made grandma’s overcooked to hell sweet corn seem pretty good. The local mental hospital had a huge farm back 50 years ago, with most of it being field corn. There was a ton of traffic in that area, and I would bet the first 40-50 feet of the one field was stolen…

Green peppers ruin anything they are put in. There was a Chinese restaurant about 42 years ago in Vegas that put them in everything. Absolutely the worst Chinese food I ever ate. I complained to the owner/host, and he seemed shocked, “You don’t like green pepper?”. The place closed up less than a year later. Then…

It seems too long to me, but it can’t be as bad as the corn a family friend’s grandmother used to make. She would boil the hell out of it, and for a long time, I thought she was buying field corn or as we used to call it, “Horse Corn”, due to the total lack of sweetness, and a very odd aftertaste. I said something to…

We had some great places in the Toledo area, my favorite was a place called Yum Yum. It was Carol’s Yum Yum, then Gus’s at the end. The burgers were ok, not great, but those fries, cut while you waited, were fantastic. On top of the food, you got to see a bunch of chickens cross busy Summit St. while you ate. They…

You can’t see the obvious pink in the picture above? Time to see the eye doc. I agree with Melissa, the cooking method is not my choice. For $7(!), it had better be spectacular. As of now, the best fast food burger I’ve ever had is a Culver’s Double Butterburger. Make mine plain, no cheese, or anything else, and I’m…

Switch to Skippy? The horror, the horror! Why, you might as well say “Skip to Peter Pan!”. Nope.

I don’t remember the town, but it was somewhere around Columbus about 25 years ago, they were installing one of those more elaborate crossing lights and gates out on some county road that seemed to have little traffic on it, and the only time you could possibly miss seeing a train coming was when the corn was about…

I remember watching the Predator review and thinking, “WTF is wrong with him?” (Ebert) One of my favorite Arnold films. Siskel was the one I disagreed with most often though. Sometimes his take on a movie was just puzzling. 

Sometimes, I have to wonder if people have actually seen the old movies that they, for some unknown reason, give a much better take on than the public did originally. Ishtar is one of them. I saw it opening day, something else was sold out, I don’t remember what that was, but it had to be better than Ishtar. I have…

Stupidity is right! We had a couple of local high school kids, who both grew up near the tracks that passed through their town do something really stupid. There are 80+ trains a day (NS Chicago line, ex NYC/PC/Conrail), along with several Amtrak trains that go through the area. Some of the stack trains are doing 60,…

160? They run 300+ car ones now. Remote controlled locos(DPU=Distributed Power Unit) in the middle or end, and a lot of those trains don’t fit into most sidings and cause all kinds of delays. The RR’s are committing slow suicide by PSR. 

PSR is such a huge disaster in so many ways. The STB needs to just make rules to make it impossible to implement. But the big shot investors of the various RR’s would cry and moan that their Operating Ratio wasn’t so good anymore, and the poor investors weren’t making enough money. Screw them, this fall/winter could…

I love the chassis itself, I just can’t stand the looks of it, the front end is OK, but the rest of it just sucks. A friend had one of the first ones in the area and I liked driving it, but the looks, lack of space inside, along with the useless trunk, were total turn offs. He drives a Scat Pack Challenger now.