Ohhhh the smoked salmon one... I once worked the salad/apps station in the kitchen at a casual chain restaurant, and one our most popular orders was a salmon salad. The menu clearly said that it came with smoked salmon, but you couldn't go a week without having a server bring back the salad saying that the customer…

I once had a customer tell me that she didn't like the Tartar sauce, and demanded some without mayonnaise in it.

I prefer the home darks, but I say let the home team decide! We're well past the point where teams don't have the budget to travel with both sets of uniforms.

As others have said, there's no problem with the sample size. 10,000 is plenty for a population the size of the US if it's independent and representative. In this case, it is not really either of these things, which is what gets Neilsen in trouble.

I would argue that the concept of Outsourced was not as blatantly racist as this. I mean, there was a ton of potential for the characters to be racist stereotypes (and many were!) but the concept could totally have been pulled off without being offensive. In this case, the entire premise of the show relies upon scary…

Something interesting to see would be if there are some common "shapes" to the tracks in the 5-10 seconds preceding a made basket.

I've also heard the argument made (and I'm not totally on board with this but I can see the logic at least) that Twilight works in a feminist sense since it is, at its core, about a female character pursuing what SHE wants, often in a single-minded way. There aren't a ton of movies in Hollywood about a girl or woman…

One obvious downside of relying on route efficiency in a vacuum is that on some balls that aren't sharply hit the most efficient route (direct path) isn't the optimal route. If you have time to do so you'd rather catch the ball coming forward, both to set up a throw and it's simply better mechanics.

I'm not freaked out by a woman holding a door for me, but I am horrendously terrified walking beside someone you don't know while heading for the same door, that causes a ton of stress in my life. Should I hurry up to get there first then hold it open? Is that weird? What if I drop back a step or two? Will they open…

Not just that, but long arms are a great asset for a d-lineman. Maybe the bench press is not the best tool to evaluate strength at that position...

That's a really good point. But it is tricky though to draw the line though between art and sport, and I'm not sure where exactly that boundary lies. For that reason I understand the perspective of ballet not being a sport; at its highest level ballet is not done competitively. The world's best dancers (in most…

Half of a Yellow Sun is a great book, but depressing as hell. Go read it, but be warned...

They say sitcoms get by on the chemistry of the ensemble. In this case it was the chemistry and charisma of 3/5 of the ensemble, and SERIOUSLY JUST GO AWAY TED AND ROBIN. Let NPH and Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan have fun times without you.

THIRD BASE!

Downhill skating?

Many national Olympic programs operate on exactly this principle to fill out the rosters of less-popular sports. Bobsleigh is the big example, with sprinters or running backs being the perfect body type for a brakeman. (Lolo Jones obviously, but my first thought was Jesse Lumsden, former CFL running back that won a…

Another example along those lines: the response the media had to how the Canadian Women's Hockey Team celebrated winning Gold at the 2010 Olympics. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/otherspo…

Yep. The look of shock on her face is the look of a professional that's so used to get the canned "we played hard out there... so proud of my teammates... it's all about work ethic" kind of responses they get 98% of the time that she couldn't believe the goldmine she stumbled upon. She was smart enough to get out of…

They're both awful-to-substandard and shouldn't have made it out of the first round. BLUE CHEESE WAS ROBBED. This plastic-y abomination is going to win the whole damn thing at it's an outrage!

I'm surprised the grouped "beverages" together. You'd think Pepsi and Budweiser aren't really fighting for pieces of the exact same pie.