Is that Highway 36 across Missouri from Hannibal to St. Joe? You’re going to be going by General Black Jack Pershing’s house in Laclede. That highway was just recently (in the last 10 years or so) made 4 lane all the way across the state, but it’s not limited access - almost all the intersections are at grade once…

In some states, they treat it as a conditional gift, but they’ll analyze fault in why the marriage didn’t take place. So, bride breaks it off, she gives back the ring. Groom breaks it off, he forfeits the ring. There’s a Missouri case, at least, that analyzed a grand piano given “in contemplation of marriage”.

It’s probably either in Chapter 407, the Merchandising Practices Act, or in Chapter 301, the Vehicle Registration Act.

It was like a 1934 Ford roadster (bright blue) that he raced against Bob Vila in a Plymouth Prowler...and lost.

The thing I remember about the Astros in the playoffs that year is Game 5 of the NLCS, when Albert Pujols crushed Brad Lidge’s will to live.

Early 90s John Kruk, maybe? It seems like all of the comps are going to be baseball or football players, really. It’s not like Phil’s “fat”, either, he just looks like some schlub you’d see propping up the end of the bar at 3:00 pm on a Friday afternoon after his shift at the tire retread factory was over.

Sean Bean once got stabbed in a bar fight and then ordered another drink. Steve Buscemi was a firefighter in New York and picked up shifts after 9/11.

I actually visited Lorain last year for Thanksgiving because my wife’s grandmother lives there. They have a nice park by the lake with rose bushes in it.

“After police [in Pevely, MO] got several calls late Tuesday about a clown in the woods behind Pevely Pointe Apartments, officers encountered several armed people in the woods ... ‘There are vigilantes armed as, for lack of a better term, clown hunters’ Moutray said.”

Who was that guy who did Mambo No. 5? He was in a halftime show where he was wheezing and gasping trying to sing the refrain to his own damn song, even though he was only singing like 30 seconds of it. That’s about the only halftime show that I remember, non-Prince edition.

Cards still have the chance to make the second wild card, half a game back of the Mets. But it’s not like they’re going anywhere after that.

Chevy Avalanche and the Ford Explorer Sport-Trac. Again with the SUV-with-a-bed thing. I never understood why they were making these at the same time as more and more trucks were coming with four door crew cabs. They didn't ride or handle any better than a crew cab truck, and the bed was just worthless. Same story…

William Faulkner wrote a book called The Reivers that has a description, IIRC, of an old-timey auto trip, I think from Mississippi to Memphis, TN. It's crazy - they talk about taking along baling wire, three jacks, a winch, levers, crowbars, spare tires, puncture kits, and enough tools to outfit a decent mechanic's…

Would engine/propeller torque have anything to do with making one wing dip like that? I'm no expert on airplanes, but the way it was described makes me think of torque-steer in a car. I know it's not analogous, since you don't have different length driveshafts in an airplane, but that's just what sprung to mind.