I suppose at some level of education, soccer gets to be interesting, but seeing people miss passes for 30 minutes at a stretch seems pretty boring to this layman. Baseball rarely goes ten seconds without something interesting happening, but of course, someone who doesn't know why a pitch is interesting wouldn't think…

"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." — Red Barber

Not that one!

I don't think so. They sign extremely open-ended releases.

Metropolis is New York in the daytime and Gotham City is New York at night.
Not an original observation — I think it was Frank Miller.

Would that I could give this a thousand likes.

You win.

Yeah, tons more strip clubs in the Bible Belt city where my folks live than anywhere around here.

No, we still dumped people over silly stuff before that.

Perhaps you should stop reading them then.

Well hell if I'm going to continue going to landlord school then — what's the point?

Those shows are artificial, but even their artificiality is artificial. The contestants are trapped in these beautiful surroundings with no TV, no Internet, and nothing to read, but there is an open bar. Of course under those circumstances eveyone is going to look like a shallow buffoon.

When I was a kid, Wendy's was the best of 'em. Now it's the worst of 'em. The fountain sodas at the one near my house always have just the teensiest tang of soap.

I've tinkered with the rules for Double Sorry!, although we've never played a game.

They're theoretically not that great because you can't develop them, which is where the big payoffs come along. But I don't know, because I've never played a game that lasted long enough for someone to build a hotel — we all just give up well before that.

My grandparents had a book that purported to have done the analysis of exactly the probability of landing on a particular space (it's not equal because of random card effects which move a piece to jail, or the Reading Railroad, etc.) and then seeing how cost-effective each is. It said the very best monopoly to have is…

I was always the scottie dog.

Yeah, every Simpsons fan of my acquaintence knew about the Gould film. None of us had **seen** it, mind you, but we knew of it.

I read them both in short succession about 15 years ago. I enjoyed both, although I can't remember too many specifics.
Watch the show, though. It's great, albeit even more obviously dramatized.

"Nothin' I haven't seen before, hon."