The battle damage armor came out at the same time as a similar feature on their Hot Wheels cars. One technology, multiple applications.

Awesome!

Always say bucks, never dollars, because dollars are real.

Most cases end in a tie and the accused pays a bunch of money to the court, regardless of what happened.

The Batman of Seville

I still remember half my pitch about Cutco's patented double-D edge and grade 440 steel. And I remember the manager guy getting us all to chant "half, baby" which was the commission we would get after we sold enough. He also showed us pictures of his Porsche, over and over again.

We'll see… it's not as if all the trends are negative. London and Moscow only recently joined the skyscraper fray. And many young folks prefer downtown settings over campuses, which can affect recruiting. In some ways the campus trend seems like a last gasp of boomer-style urban planning.

It's the quality that concerns me. In America, escalators eating people is a myth. In China that really happens.

I'm working from my dad's observation re: bamboo, which was indeed specific to the HK area.

There is now a clock tower in Mecca that is taller.

They're building them anyway though, giant towers in cities that no one in the west has even heard of. Increasingly they're using prefab construction to do it on the cheap, and they're still using bamboo scaffolding.

In a town where I once lived, "Oriental massage parlors" had flourished for time immemorial and Asian hooker jokes were a local staple. Couple years ago the state finally stepped in, found a slaving operation and closed them. I mean, big slave market right there down the road and nobody cared. There isn't much talk…

The Browns tend to hold their own against the Pats. Last game was surprisingly close, at New England.

Because they're coming. The robots. And once they get here, pronouncing it like robit will get you killed. They really hate that.

I don't go for such things but to me Dogwelder has always seemed like a parody of them. It's so far over the line that it can't be taken seriously, a critique of everything that's dark for dark's sake.

Home of Cedar Point!

They lost me when they made fun of Mike & The Mechanics.

I've always used Ishkabibble.

In fairness, most words were made up a long time ago and are generally agreed upon. That's why language works.

All I see there is "Albuquerque"