This was pretty much my reaction, mutatis mutandis, when my parents told me I was going to have a baby brother.

Also class of 1992. We didn't have a class song, but we did have class t-shirts, which we emblazoned with "keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel," mostly because whoever was in charge of designing the thing was really into Oliver Stone's Doors movie.

Even given the erosion of a dollar's buying power in the last 28 years, nine-hundred-thou will buy a LOT of beer!

I don't know. It depends on the exchange rate. How many thous can you get for a thow?

I've never encountered the phrase "on the come-up" before, but I understand it, based on context and because it makes me think of "up-and-coming." I halfway like it, but I'm not ready to commit 100% to it just yet. I'd like to see how it fits in John Cleese's mouth first.

You have not mentioned the widespread fear that when the mechanical timepieces turn over to the year 1900, they will so thoroughly confuse it with the year 1800 that they will cease all proper function, threatening all of us with out-of-control bottling machines, reapers, threshers, looms, and even automobiles. Have…

How many times has "I Love L.A." been used in a commercial or investor-information video simply because of the title?

I thought she was Edie Brickell.

When I was in the process of buying my house, one bit of uplift I experienced was seeing that skipping out on Columbia house in 1994 didn't affect my credit score!

The stagnating earning power of American workers — even educated professionals like research scientists — is apparent just 4 or 5 years later, when Marky Mark told the story of a girl who "wanted to be a chemical engineer/making fifty- to fifty-five thousand a year."

Lazenby is the Aussie. Dalton is the Welshman. Brosnan is the Irishman. That leaves Moore, Craig, and Connery. You didn't really lump Connery in as one of "three Englishmen," did you? Because that would be contemptibly stupid.

I figure I should try to act ladylike once before they kill me!

He also got caught cruisin' for strange, at a time when that particular strange was shockingly strange to most people not in the entertainment or psychology industries.

I was just contemplating the last-meal scenario yesterday, and couldn't decide whether to order something that had been a longtime favorite I could enjoy one lady time, or order something I've never had before and scratch it off my bucket list. I think I'm too indecisive to be a murderer.

I think Bill O'Reilly may have been premature in declaring victory in the War on Christmas (a registered trademark of NewsCorp; all rights reserved).

Before Christmas, I saw lots of ads for "chocolate diamonds." As always, I'm not quite sure if that's racist or sexy.

I can't believe I read this whole article and even all the comments. I actually felt myself get dumber as a result. Why didn't I turn away when I first realized this was all incredibly stupid? I'm going to blame the antihistamines.

The boxers. It's wrong to fight.

The American American.

Epistolary novels.