I, for one, will wear sackcloth and ashes when blockbuster goes. Their 3-at-a-time movie rentals fueled many a crazy night of wanton hedonism.

@DrakeDatsun: Close. Seventy is written as sixty-ten, eighty is four-twenty, and ninety is four-twenty-ten. So, saying the year when I was in high school, 1996, was actually saying one thousand, nine hundred, four-twenty-sixteen.

I lived in France for four years, two of those years in high school, and those years taught me that the French think things in an entirely different way than Americans. Things like math, which I thought would be pretty universal, were taught in a completely different and (to me) obscure way, but all my French…

Watching the Mythbuster's Rube Goldberg episode showed me how frustratingly evil it can be to put together one of those devices.