Wait, so a craft bar welcomes your child in before 5 p.m.? That’s really awesome. A number of parents would be pumped that their favorite place has both a family-friendly and a sans-kids time. A ton of patio places here have got a kind of family hour, and everybody loves it. The bands’ early sets are more PG, the…

‘Grammaticians’ is a colloquialism; you’re looking for the word ‘grammarian.’

They didn’t have them on Pacific flights in (early) November, from what friends and family told me. So I think you got a ‘soft opening,’ you lucky ducky.

Admittedly, I think the male love interest roles are populated entirely by soap opera and sci fi actors, plus Steven Weber.*

Reading that whole Twitter thread about credit was a reminder that the internet is often full of really well-intentioned, locally sourced, organic, slow-release poison.

I can never find one. Navy people are obsessed with coffee, and it just appears to be one of the old wives’ tales that got passed around. Some people say yeah, it was totally something done on their ship, and others say they never encountered it at all. It’s equivalent to never washing the percolator with soap -…

Hopefully not. Seawater is deadly to drink. When potable water is brought onboard, it’s sealed. When it’s filtered onsite from the sea, it’s desalinated. I guess if a boat/ship uses iodine tablets, then maybe?

That’s a really good article. 

Word-of-mouth lore was that you salted your coffee to reduce the staleness of old coffee, not the good stuff. It used to be known as a sailor’s practice, though I’ve never thought to ask any old sailors if that’s true. In modern literature Tom Clancy refers to the habit in The Hunt for Red October, wherein a Navy…

They all sing, “Give Me Just One Reason” as they repair their damaged bots together, “We’re not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love agaiiiiiin!”

This is as plausible as my answer.  I like it.

I can answer the last question - the upgrades that the 2023 Time Crew had given to the Lifeboat’s systems are more advanced that what was in the Mother Ship. I probably still would have stripped out the Mother Ship’s plush interior and saved a couple of spare parts for the Lifeboat, though.

Liked for your ‘real detective’ observation.  I’m snorting coffee out my nose.

On it’s own the CD means something in its thoughtfulness. When laid side-by-side with the necklace there’s a different message, though. If you’re giving your hoped-for mistress jewelry, there’s nothing you can give your wife that would let you be considered thoughtful. It becomes a game of comparison when you deserve…

Boys’ Life has an archive of 4300 goofy Dad-worthy jokes:  

Ugh.

Does he? I hope not. Frankly, where I went to school all the rich kids were the cheap-asses who also liked to soak the straw wrappers and leave them stuck to the tables on a Saturday night. Nothing said, “My daddy’s a lawyer,” like ‘forgetting’ to tip. That ‘certain group’ was why one reason I didn’t go into tipped…

Happy Holidays to you and your crew, too.

I get Salty’s viewpoint about the owner and rent, but I’ve been to a few bars that are honestly happy to serve the sober patron under the assumptions s/he was the designated driver for a crew that were paying for drinks. I say this from experience as a one-drink or no-drink person at many bars who was, in fact, the…

Oh man, that sucks. My cousin got holiday pay for working part of Christmas at the movie theater. I figure the theater was making money hand-over-fist to do something like that. But that was back when some movie theaters were still individually owned franchises, so the practice probably varied a lot from store to…