Yeah, but Dads, you know?

You will always wonder how
It would have been if you'd only lied…
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth

Should you care, it's traditionally abbreviated "Mpls." Unless one is my Dad, who writes "Minn., MN" on letters.

I lived on Franklin, right near Lyndale, in the early 90's, and amused all my friends to no end with this poorly phrased little bon mot:

Unless an underwater, eyes-closed, closed-lips face-mash between a 13-year old girl and a closeted gay 14-year-old boy - with no followup, ever - counts (I mean, I had some sort of naive intent, but, well…), my first kiss was the summer before senior year.

Oh, God. I was 11 when that aired, and had matured early, and eeeeeek.

"Fred, you son of a bitch, you've crossed me for the last time! Myrtle, hand me the Mexican vanilla."

And poison and/or razor blades and/or pins and needles in Halloween candy.

While watching the video for "Eye of the Tiger" the other day, my friend noted that the members of Survivor in their tight jeans "look like they're smugglin' plums."

I agree.

20 years ago, I worked in downtown Minneapolis, and there was a rash of people who wanted out of skyscrapers just a little too badly - for example, taking dumbbells to windows and crashing 10 stories or so through the glass roof of the Crystal Court.

@avclub-ddf39be6eb089c51636d28ea68254f5c:disqus No! You age fish by digging out their otoliths and counting the rings in those.

"That's a 'Chapelle's Show' reference, for anyone not in the know,"

They played the full song on The Current this morning.

He hugs you. Or high-fives you.

Urrggh, Lake of the Isles before the re-engineering - one would think the smell would preclude the thought of purification.

I went on my first movie date to see "A View to a Kill."

I laughed, I cried - it was better than "Cats"! I'll see it again and again!

My name is Ted
And someday
I'll be dead (Clank clank)

You weren't wearing the parachute pants and vests with zippers, and a mullet? Actually, you made the right choice.