That makes sense. The scenes at Winterfell in the first couple of episodes were very gender-separated. Arya the tomboy crossed over, but the only scenes where Sansa appeared with her brothers are ones where Jon would have been excluded.

I'm sure this is mentioned further down, but I doubt I'll get through 2000 comments to get there: He was likely getting the Freys on board. Walder Frey's no more likely to believe that Roose and Walda died of poisoning than the Smalljon, and should be ready to break his alliance with the Boltons. Littlefinger was…

San Diego's got the problem that most of the rest of the country doesn't distinguish it from Los Angeles. And the perfect weather, who cares about sports there?

The Mariners are a poor example of persistent mediocrity. Aside from that brief burst of excellence, they've mostly been awful. Not many seasons of "meh."

In the mid-80s in high school I was in a small group ensemble singing group and we did "Summer Nights." We had to take out the lines about "She got friendly down in the sand," because it was too racy, but we left in "Did she put up a fight?" Even at 16 in the 80s I was WTF? It was a big hit in the show, though.

I think he was planning another alliance between the North and the Vale, but, yeah, too inscrutable. Sending Sansa to Winterfell and Ramsey seems like a miscalculation of some sort, but it's hard to say in which direction.

I didn't want to go overboard.

I'd put at least some money on "Any one of the Sand Snakes." They're mostly interchangeable at this point and would provide all sorts of (additional) revenge fodder for Ellaria and the other two, and that's what they run on. 25-1 on any "Any of the" general categories seems like a good bet, generally.

Surely your nationally syndicated oddsmaker could change his name to Benjen Eckstein, just for this feature?

Happily it's a pretty small genre.

There's a McDonald's in Edina, MN, that has a life-size replica of Mac Tonight at his piano. Even better, it's in a strip mall. The drive-through is a little kiosk in the parking lot. They can serve up the drinks from the kiosk, but the food gets delivered from the main store via pneumatic tube.

Yeah, you had to dig out the plastic liner inside the cap with a knife to see what letter was underneath. I mainly looked for the "free bottle of pepsi product" ones and kept them in the glove box for when I was short of cash and thirsty.

Safeway and (I think) Albertson's was running the same game, at least in my town in WA. I figured somewhere someone posted the rare pieces so you wouldn't have to bother collating them.

Yep, the key to being active outside when it's cold is layers. Shed a layer when you get too warm, add one when you get cold. Sweating when it's below freezing is never good if you don't have a warm place to retreat to.

The Indian woman referred to him as son first, "Bless you, son." He responded as such, "Thank you, mother."

The Supreme Court really does function best with an even number of justices.

I like your rational niceness.

I enjoy the garage sale element, but I can see that pissing one off. I kind of miss Aldi since moving out West. There's a Grocery Outlet in town that's close enough for government work. But I don't go there for regular shopping, just dropping in to see what they have at the moment. Does Trader Joes offset any of the…

Did Ned ever actually fight with Ice? I thought it was too unwieldy for anyone but a Clegane to use in battle and he mostly used it for ceremonial purposes.