I didn’t realize she was responsible for Baltimore County public schools.  Maybe start with the people who are?

My friends and I were movie rental machines and somehow were able to get a copy of this. I was in no way prepared for how deranged that movie was going to be in every possible way. Just thinking about it makes me smile.

Should have just said no!

And the Toxic Revenger in Tiny Toon Adventures!

He’s not the type to embellesh (though I’d note that this probably occurred 25 years ago, even if he didn’t tell me the story until later) so I think it’s more laziness among plant management - it simply wasn’t worth the effort to fire him for cause and then battle the union grievance process.

Yep.  The latter.

I’m a massive protagonist of CPO’ing two year-old cars coming off lease.  Let someone else eat that 1/3 (or more) depreciation and handle the original quality issues.

Eh, could be two things. A guy I worked with got his start as a management trainee at GM plant and he said guys would sit in the lot getting high and then walk into work, and there wasn’t a single thing management could do about it. It’s probably less of an issue today with much greater automation.

I bought one of my cars right at the model year turnover and got an insane deal because the manufacturer was offering dealers big incentives, so they could clear their lots and buy more of the new models.  But as for where it came from...yeah, it would pretty much already have to be sitting on some dealer’s lot who…

Another version is “don’t buy a German car in October”

What stuck with me about Everybody Wants Some was my complete surprise once the guys eventually started playing baseball that they’d cast actors who actually knew what the hell they were doing on the diamond. So refreshing compared to other sports movies.

I hadn’t heard about that until now. But regardless, I view his performance as an excellent impression, like maybe Kilmer’s of Jim Morrison in The Doors.

I don’t disagree with any of that, but her fame is a relatively new thing.  She should know better, but I’m not really surprised at her behavior.  Meanwhile the political hypocrisy on display is sickening, and REALLY undercuts the likelihood of compliance.  It tells people that the rules are either overkill or…

The affliction doesn’t seem to center on any particular age group.  There’s a guy halfway down the hall in my office and I can follow every detail of his life.  And it’s a long hall.

Given the current state of San Francisco, they clearly gave up on that effort a long time ago.

Same. The alarming thing isn’t how much pet hair it picks up - we can see that rolling around in tumbleweeds so it’s hardly a surprise - it’s the amount of dust, seemingly no matter how often I run it.

I passed on the first one after reading an excerpt that made my head hurt. And I’m not some literary snob above an airport or beach read.

- Nostalgia sells, big time

I haven’t read the book but wasn’t this addressed head-on in the movie that the creator of the Oasis was an emotionally and socially arrested 80s kid, a loner who basically filled his life with the pop culture of the era? And his obsessions were adopted by the people trying to solve the riddles in order to improve…

Yeah, yet another show I’d like to see that I’m not going to buy an additional streaming service for.