It figures that America calls it “kickball”. It’s not like there aren’t any other sports where the primary focus is kicking the ball. I guess they couldn’t call it “football”, as that’s already taken. Soccer baseball makes way more sense. Stupid Americans. (Full disclosure: I’m now an American.)

Plus, it’s literally possible for a Canadian to say, “I took my toque to Tuktoyaktuk,” and mean it.

That’s what I was thinking. The only thing she had to worry about with regard to the pregnancy was that no one would recognize the baby as her’s once her face was rearranged. (That would actually be a bonus for the kid, though.)

I bet when Luck gets to the part with the Pain Box he thinks of his O-line ironically chuckles to himself.

There was the Korean Air downing, and the subsequent “evil empire” talk from Reagan and his joke during a sound test about the “bombs are flying” (it doesn’t help tensions when one nation’s leader jokes about nuking an opposing nation). But for the most part it wasn’t so much a rising tension but an ever present, and…

The reason you don’t pile the condiments on top of the cheese is because the condiments are supposed to enhance the meat. You want the condiments to actually come in contact with the meat.

Woohoo! Go, Houston Saints!

What a pain in the ass that will be.

If you’re right, we need to start betting on when slabs of concrete will start falling on fans.

I roll to disbelieve. There’s no way he knows what the word “font” means. More likely, “Happy Birthday Diane, and can you put flowers and crap on it?”

I gave you a star for being a board gamer. That I also agree with your stance on defense lawyers was secondary.

To put the “I was in kindergarten during 9/11" into perspective (and to show how history isn’t as long ago as we think), one of my earliest memories is of watching the first moon landing on TV; I was 6. My wife was 6 when Nixon resigned. My mother, who turns 78 this year, was 6 when World War II ended (storm sirens,…

They were originally trying to get the old Guide plant in Monroe, LA. They couldn’t get the incentive package worked out, largely due to funding failing to come from the city of Monroe. Unless you live around here, you really, really don’t appreciate how bad off a company has to be in order to make the Monroe city…

I noticed you didn’t disallow biting...

By that reasoning, the best cars for tires would be... uh, Formula 1 cars!

Cognitive dissonance. No one thinks they are the bad guy in their own story. By extension, no one wants to think of their ancestors as bad guys. Couple this with the whitewashing of American history that came out of Reconstruction and the Lost Cause, and you have a ton of Southern white people actually believing that…

If the Civil War comes up in elementary school, the cause is stated as “it was slavery”. When it comes up in high school, there’s more wiggling. “Slavery was a big* part of it, but there were social and economic factors to consider.” After high school, when you look at the source documents, the voting record of…

Hell is nothing but television, but not the awesome stuff on right now. It’s all just reruns of “Matt Houston” and slap chop commercials.

Maybe I’m missing something, and of course a reasonable person wouldn’t have expected that to be a triple, but where was the left outfielder? Why wasn’t he watching and moving in to back up 3rd base? Sure, that would mean having to actually, you know, do some running, but you’d think an outfielder would relish the…