"BRAWK! Tell me about it!"

If it helps, magnitude 8-9 earthquakes happen there every 300 to 900 years, and based on Japanese tsunami records the last one was on January 26, 1700.

He's been reinstated.

Having been through various game show wringers, if she had "no personality" she wouldn't be on at all.

I tried that with Roger Craig (the 2011 ToC winner that I met at a trivia convention) at the end of the Battle of the Decades Tournament. Unfortunately, it didn't work, but maybe the tachyons like you better!

"Most of those so-called '49ers' seem to be in their twenties and thirties. Why the deception?"

SPOI...the hell with it, the book's been out since 2000.

Hmm.

Don't give them ideas!

"I don't know about that bobsled, though. It kinda looks like a train, and...you know..."

When Chicago* was eliminated in the first vote, I was annoyed by the reactions of "Hur hur, Obama's home town didn't get the Olympics like he wanted, so by the transitive property he sux LOL!" by certain political elements. In hindsight, the sting has certainly lessened.

But then there's only one opportunity for graft!

Could be a redo of 1976, when Denver pulled out at the last minute* and Innsbruck (which hosted the 1964 winter games) had to fill in.

+1 for pronunciation.

Did you check Batteries Plus?

"We're used to it."

Not all…

It's a standard RWNJ canard that beginning with Margaret Sanger, evil white progressives have promoted abortion and birth control with the intent to reduce minority populations.

I can see where this is heading, so I concede the point.

I'm quite possibly older.

(My dad had to schlep a VAX terminal with a 300 baud acoustic modem home from Lockheed to work on some project, and naturally this was available. Later on, when we got an Apple IIe and Zork I thought "This looks familiar…")