Mokey, I did the exact same thing. Fucking this shit seems a little extreme, and I have nothing against advertising in general, but this is annoying.

No one knows who Von Hayes is!

Yeah, he talks about the weather, and maybe that's a factor. But he never mentions the fact that people don't care about LA teams because no one is actually from LA, which seems like a much bigger factor. That's my point.

Palin 2012: Apocalypse (three years from) Now
That phrase just came to me a few days ago, and I thought it was funny. And horrifying.

Clippers fans don't care…
…because nobody in LA is from LA. Simmons is great, but this is one thing he doesn't seem to understand. Cities like Boston, Detroit, and Philadelphia have rabid fanbases because people grew up there and come from families that lived in the area for multiple generations. Cities like…

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If only I wasn't 900 miles from Chicago.

How do you know HE didn't? I haven't laughed at the Simpsons in eight years either, largely because I stopped watching seven years ago.

I didn't intend to imply that I tip 15%, anonymous internet person who I will never knowingly interact with face-to-face, or that 15% is standard in the South. I just went with that because it's what I've always heard as the minimum.

I suppose so. I was recently trying to explain to someone why I love It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but I'm lukewarm toward "Curb," even though both shows are centered around horrible people screaming at each other. The only clear difference is the socio-economics.

Tip
Maybe somebody can help me out here—I've spent approximately .0002% of my life in California, so I don't have a strong grasp on how their economy works, but here in the South, a $12 tip sounds absolutely insane. At 15%, that means the meal would have cost $80. Or is it standard practice to quadruple your tip if…

Back to You
I agree that Back to You had its moments—specifically, any time Fred Willard was on screen. His ability to make a bad show watchable is Warburton-esque.

Aside from Richter's dominance, my favorite part was Blitzer's total inability to understand the category "3 E's" (or whatever it was called), in which every correct response was a word with three E's.

Big Yellow Taxi
I worked in a suburban grocery store that would play about eight hours worth of music on a constant loop. The highlight of every shift was when Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" came around. They paved paradise, indeed.

And while we're at it, what was the name of that movie about the bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over fifty, and if its speed dropped, it would explode?