in a truly equal society, ice cream theft would be a capital offense. Meanwhile, anyone got any chocolate sauce? Trade you some jimmies for it...

my favorite campaign from back in the late 70's had us running for our lives up a tower staircase (dumb idea, duh) from a pack of orcs when suddenly our wizard pulls out... a Slinky. A normal, ordinary slinky. He's been carrying it the WHOLE campaign and playing with it (the guy playing the mage had one of those mini…

but it was all about the trade! Beads, blankets, guns you can use against your own neighbors, alcohol, opium... totally fair and above board and not at all a system of making it look like an exchange and not a grab. Because we have to look good by our own laws, thus proving our inherent superiority. In fact, we'd…

it was a short story in an anthology, IIRC it was a guy who kept running into time travelers who would want something to take back with them to prove they had actually traveled through time, and he was basically making a fortune ripping them off of all their future tech.

I remember an old, by which I mean 1950's, science fiction short story where a time traveler used the phrase "Anglo you down" instead of "Jew you down" (an antiquated and obviously double plus ungood expression meaning "to haggle aggressively")

In high school the Australian exchange student caused my whole class to basically fall apart when he not too quietly asked to borrow a "rubber" (eraser) from someone. Best part was that the previous year, his family had hosted one of our classmates to Australia, and said classmate had caused the same reaction the…

Flashing back to that scene in "The Egypt Game" where the little boy (also 4? It's been awhile) who doesn't speak much/well is trying to describe the bad man who almost kidnapped his sister and another little girl; finally the (white) policeman finally puts his arm next to the kid's (who is black) and says "was his…

American chef Grant Achatz

LOL "Susan Fairchild" — my mother worked for Fairchild Semiconductor back in the 60's...

Don't remember the year but I distinctly remember having to go see E.T. with my family, hating it, walking out and ducking into the theater next door for most of TRON.

No but I can Woodward and Bernstein it all over the internet :-D

come for the verbal abuse, stay for the TAROT READINGS

seek out some more acceptable musical heroes?

Marvel vs. DC. IBM vs. Apple. Godspell vs. Jesus Christ Superstar.

same here, gave up after four seasons. People could not believe I would not watch further. "But it gets better, honest!" nope sorry.

how can cracker be a bad word when we're all Ritzy and Wheat Thin? It's a compliment! And as a white person who has white friends I can totally speak for all of us! Stop being so sensitive.

well ideally if you're doing it right you don't feel ANY temperature outside your own body, so... pretty good?

Flask isn't going to cut it. Just have a tanker truck with a hose follow you around. I've found that to be the most economical solution.

This is the incident that brought us the term "wilding," which was pretty much the 80's version of the knock down game, even being a thing which is not actually a thing. Colored Kids Acting Like Animals, Threatening White Folks Everywhere. Media scare! Hide your wimmen and children! Or some shit like that.

quick, someone get a clip of Bernadette Peters saying "SOME of us don't like the way you've been TELLING IT" because this is bull to the power of shit.