It’s telling that in spite of you putting it in gray quote text, I’m still not sure I believe that “New Era Pinstripe Bowl” is a real thing.

Gas prices have a lot of variables. This could get long.

Yep. Canadian fast food restaurants have little vinegar packets available, the size of ketchup packets. Usually white vinegar, usually Heinz.

(Aside: My wife and I have a thing, “Heinz makes _____?” The first grocery shop I did with her I asked where they kept the Heinz beans, as I didn’t see any. She replied, “Heinz…

Some states have distances, or they have distances if the location of the business isn’t immediately obvious. The signs in Louisiana don’t have distances (at least nor around here). The signs in Mississippi do.

That’s a neat idea, but it won’t happen due to the way the service station business works. For one thing, a lot of stations have their prices set at the home office of the company that owns the gas (often not the same company that runs the convenience store or the actual pumps).

I doubt he could be any worse than any of Trump’s other advisers.

As some others have speculated in this thread, from speculation elsewhere on the internet, apparently something about the encounter was not consensual. There’s even more speculation as to what that entails. Did the producer try to stop something non-consensual? Did the production try to make the producer not stop…

Thank you! That explains it.

Oh, sure, undermine my knee jerk reaction with sound logic. I see how you operate...

I can understand the ref whistling the play if he can’t see the puck (per the commentators, that’s kosher) but if the standard for blowing a play dead is one millisecond after the puck disappears, how is there ever a goal scored when the puck slips under a goaltender? Oh, well, it’s not likely to happen aga... what’s…

The term I’ve heard for Republicans, of which I totally approve, is “special Cheeto”.

No. No, people who wanted a racist, misogynistic, adulterous, unethical, lying, cheating, hypocritical, narcissistic know-nothing, with a penchant for nepotism and a poor grasp of civics, economics, and world affairs, for president are to blame.

I’m trying to understand why this is Kanaan’s fault (no argument, just an F1 guy trying to understand Indy oval blocking rules and why this isn’t simply a “racing incident”).

North American football is the aberration in only needing part of the ball to break the front plane of the goal line (possibly due to its rugby roots where you can score a try by touching the ball down on the goal line). Most other sports require the entire ball (or equivalent) to cross the rear plane of the goal…

Hey, I’ve been saying “maybe it’s a tumor” for years, pretty much from the time the movie came out. One day I woke up with my right ear ringing. I said, with a grin, “maybe it’s a tumor”.

Yeah, Toronto would be at the bottom if they were still playing in Exhibition Stadium. I remember seeing a rain delayed game one August and had to wear a jacket. Oddly enough, it was brutally hot and humid a few nights later for a Queen concert. (Few people believe me when I tell them that Toronto in the summer is…

I’m almost caught up. I start the second to latest podcast tomorrow. I want to thank you very much for the podcast. I really enjoy it.

I’m a big history-geek (should have majored in history, frankly), but the first millennia is an empty chasm to me. You’re helping fill it in. The episode that gave me the biggest…

As a Canadian American I’m completely bemused by people who think of Canadians as a nation of neutral pacifists. “I can tell you have never been to a hockey game.” (or know history, for that matter)

Fernando may not appear all that disappointed, but I would not want to be the next Honda executive that crosses his path.

I am shocked, shocked I say!, that a profanity was uttered in a hockey locker room. Of all places! What’s this fucking world coming to?