uhhh…am I missing something, or are you all forgetting about Alaska?

"There’s a small portion of the United States, Point Roberts, that’s
isolated from the rest of the country by Canada, the second-largest
country on Earth."

Knowing how to spell 'yolk' might not be crucial, but it's certainly desirable!

Forget Michael Chabon; Rex Stout has the best literary scrambled egg recipe, as put into the mouth of his famous detective Nero Wolfe. In one of the stories, Wolfe explains that the secret to scrambled eggs is just to cook them on as low a heat as your stove can manage, then stand there, stirring them, the entire…

that's the same reason I've heard the first ~3 seconds of a song called 'Ponyride' or something by the 60 Ft Dolls, like, five thousand times.

That wasn't really 'the arcade version of this'. They're just…both games based on athletics. Amazingly, more than one person had the idea 'hey, let's make a game based on athletics'. Surprising, I know!

These people are idiots. Don't they realize they shouldn't be wasting their lives like this, but spending them productively by commenting on pop culture websites?!

No. It's the one at Marshall Field's.

Millions of people still play it. Google Trends is a terrible indicator of ongoing popularity; it only tells you what people who read and write hot takes on the internet care about right this minute.

I was! A good point, well made.

I kinda felt like that scene was really nicely choreographed and directed, but slightly sloppily edited. I might be getting over-critical, though. It was still like five times better than any action scene in the first two seasons.

The first one's great. The second's a bit meh.

"Friends fanatics, for instance, might have genuinely enjoyed Girlfriends, a proposed series built around Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe Buffay character."

So you're saying that far from scoring porno movies, the members of PsOTUSA spend their days obsessively checking for comment threads that allege they score porno movies? That's definitely better!

This review says "Timberlake himself is a stunner", so I'm not sure where you're getting that from.

Same as it ever was!

"Go ahead, just try to fantasize about gazing into the smoky eyes of
Carolina wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin as he feeds you strawberries, on a
yacht, in the Mediterranean sun."

"Didn’t notice an uptick in the threatened “integrated advertising” yet. Anyone?"

on the other hand, I cut basically everything with one of the cheap henckels (one man, not two man, set of six for 30 bucks) steak knives, and that works pretty much fine. and I don't have to worry about hand washing and hand drying and sharpening my goddamn PRECIOUS KNIFE every time I use it, I just throw the buggers…

+1 for pun resistance.