I always tell car salesmen that I’m thinking about buying a cheaper car than I really want just to have that price point dangling over the conversation.

I used his techniques to ask him to lower the price of his iPhone app... he didn’t budge. His techniques didn’t work, so what’s the purpose of buying them?

Water people, oh, just wait until you get to the poop people.

First, the HR lady gave me bad directions. Second, she looks at my resume and says, “Oh my, we have an opening for a junior person and I can see from your resume that you are qualified for a senior position”. They did have a senior position that was opening up in a few weeks though, apparently one of their admins was…

If he skates through him with a shoulder then I wouldn’t have an issue.

The Seahawks won a Super Bowl by employing the exact same strategy.

Who would ever give a tow company a good review?

401k plans are universally terrible because the mutual funds available in them have unbelievably high fees that eat all the returns. Buy some low-fee ETFs and you will actually get some returns instead of handing them over to the incompetent fund managers.

Well, practical experience (my ex-employer's 401K) has shown that positive returns aren't to be had. Thankfully, I got the option to pull it out and just stick it in a retirement savings account that at least gets me a couple of percent every year.

You're forgetting what works for the vast majority of the wealthy:

It's no coincidence that the Red Wings are spearheading this movement, seeing as how Jimmy Howard is having one of the worst seasons against the shootout as a goalie has ever had. He has stopped 9 of the 24 shots he's faced this year and the Wings are 3-9 in the shootout. Honestly he'd have given up more goals, but…

Am I the only one who LIKES the shootout? There's nothing more interesting to me than a 7- or 8-round shootout.

Pictured: the only current Buffalo Sabre who is likely to be in the NHL five years from now.

Is there anywhere I can find an analysis of how this season's standings would look without the shootout? I'm sure this is something I could do on my own if I had the time and energy, but I lack both of those.

Hockey bloggers love to complain about the shootout. How many of them have ever laced up skates at any level of play?

Years ago I had a senior coworker give me this advice: never care more about the company than the company cares about you. It took me a while to realize it, but that advice was priceless.

Extraordinarily good advice. I'm always baffled about (and a little sad for) people who mistake their office life for the real thing, and their colleagues for friends. Now, some colleagues can become friends, of course, but in my experience that's rare, and even more rare for the friendship to continue to prosper…

"I have full confidence in my teammates to execute that play because we had run it so many times."

I like to use a square cake pan as a form to shape the meatloaf. After I've squashed the meatloaf into the pan, I flip the pan over onto a cookie sheet covered with parchment and drop the meatloaf onto the parchment. I like my meatloaf cooked all the way through so I only make 2 pounds at a time and I keep the…