My folks’ house was painted this exact color for many years - it was an Olympic Stain color called Avocado Green, if memory serves. Painted it that color in 1979, lasted till about ‘83 or four. Amazingly, my first job in high school was at a hardware store, and we not only stocked it we sold quite a bit of it. This…

Wasn’t it Dikkens with two K’s, the well known Dutch author?

I’ve said it before - if they’d sold one with a regular Civic drivetrain along with the hybrid, called the former the “Si” and the latter the “HF”, they’d have sold a boatload more of them.

I’ve read the same thing about Cecily Strong - that she’s the best at purely acting on the current cast. Kate McKinnon’s strengths lie in her impressions and in her ability to just completely inhabit a completely off the wall character, but she’s just kind of there (I will admit I’ve never seen her in anything else,…

Versatility. In addition to impressions and wacky characters, he can also play the lone sane person in a sketch (and still steal a scene doing that). I imagine that makes him pretty easy to write for, and he can be slotted into almost any sketch.

CP because of the “because racecar” tow hooks. My experience is that someone who runs them on the street is probably needlessly beating the hell out of the car.

So, my father refers to IHOP as the “International House Of Bratwurst”, because he claims it was an old advertising line. I always smelled bullshit on that, but I kind of want him to notice this, cause he’ll just dad joke his way through it.

SPOILER ALERT!

You know that the “First Lady-as-spy scenario is exactly the plot of whatever they’re going to call the sequel to The Americans. It’s the only logical thing to do with the daughter.

I talk a big game and would like to say I’d get a 944 or XJ or something cool, but I know I’d just end up impulse buying an AMC Eagle hatch or one of those old Ford vans with the porthole window or a ‘73 Olds wagon.

Here in the States Ford sold these under the new name “Merkur”, at Lincoln dealers (along with rebadged 3-door Sierras as the XR4Ti). They tried to market them as an upscale sports sedan like a BMW or Audi. Not many sold, as I recall - the XR4Ti was more popular, I think, as it was sportier.

TIL Fangoria is still around.

Can confirm.

I think May, Edd, and Adam Savage would be the best trio for a show about tech geekery.

Rebadge them as Lancias, and now they’re exotic. Boom. Done.

I’m not sure he knows the difference.

They used the old Brach’s candy factory in Austin in that one, I think. I do remember commuting on the Metra (West Line goes - or went - past it) and seeing the preparations for the filming.

I’m told that if you remove the old sticker before putting on the new one, it’ll be impossible to remove cleanly (I know that when I remove mine they’re always in bits). If you leave them on, eventually you can peel off several layers in one piece - I think that sticker thieves look for old cars with a thick layer of…

You have license plate brokers? Please explain. (Here in Illinois if you need brand new plates they’ll mail them to you, but if you’re buying a car at a dealership they often have them ready to go. When I bought my last car I wasn’t transferring my old ones and the new plates were on when I drove off. I believe they…

I worked in a record store back then (I was in college, the hours fit my class schedule. Don’t get too excited it was in a shopping mall, I wasn’t working in High Fidelity), and I read a lot of the British music magazines and consequently listened to a lot of then current British music. A lot of those albums are still…

I’m aware of it’s durability, I’m just vain enough to not want it getting all beat to hell. Even at less than $200, it’s enough of an investment to me that I’m going to be particular about it.