Our accounts guy at work - who is only 2 years older than myself, and thus in the prime Schoolhouse Rock audience cohort - asked someone today what the magic number was, and I quietly called out "Isn't it three?" He ignored me. He thinks he's so cool, being our whole Accounts department…

I prefer the Seal King. And even the 2 ugly women.

Ah, Margaret d'Anjou. Swinton? Blanchett?

Trust me…

CARIBBEAN QUEEN
NOW WE'RE SHARING THE SAME DREAM

As a 43-year-old woman who has been attracted to some older men (God, it's weird when you realize your crush is 50…and that's appropriate…), I find a lot of extra pathos or self-deprecating irony or whatever in "I Will Dare" that really is the opposite of what was intended, but I'm going to claim it anyway.

I've seen stories about people showing it, drive-through style, at the beach, with the audience floating in inner tubes, etc., in the water. That would be quite something.

I have read that the reason Hooper lives is that Ron and Valerie Taylor (of course) got awesome footage of a real great white attacking the shark cage where they meant to film Hooper dying - but no one was inside it at the time, so they decided to use the footage and let Hooper live.

I love Roy Scheider's silent film reaction to the shark SO MUCH. 

I was 9 then, living about 4 hours north of Cincinnati, and heard about it on the news, and then again on a very fine episode of WKRP. It didn't get quite the amount of attention that Elvis' or John Lennon's deaths did, but it was close.

Included for its vaguely-related cuteness value, my brother's first knock-knock joke, when he was 3:

James Lileks!

Hmm. I kind of free-associated my way to Low's "Monkey" for Minnesota. Maybe it's just the video:

Pfft. That would be SANBORN, the rest of @avclub-af95af2627f837175b14bd72fce0e2ba:disqus's friends.

No Z'ha'dum, but I have been to Ca' z'Dan, nearly 40 years ago.

The natural history geek tour of the LA area includes:
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - adjacent to USC, right next to the Olympic Stadium
The Page Museum at Rancho La Brea - in downtown LA
The Aquarium of the Pacific - in Long Beach
The Cabrillo Aquarium - in San Pedro, free (though there's a pretty…

Actually, their top teeth usually do show - it's the bottom teeth that are covered, whereas crocodiles show both top and bottom teeth when their mouths are closed.

I have had a 2001 Cavalier since 2003. The engine is beginning its death throes…just in time for winter in Minnesota…

@avclub-e7a493b9b2145a9a61cbd4a62c12b171:disqus  Ah, but do you remember the old pop can tabs, and bottlecaps? They were everywhere, and they'd cut your feet on the beach, in the deceptively soft-looking park grass, when your flip-flop flew off by accident… At the golf course, there were little hills of pop can tabs…

My cats are Gem (bicolor white and gray tabby) and Norton (gray ticked tabby.) Their previous owner named them. I have given Norton the knickname "Giant Wildcat," because he is.