Now that it’s all over the news that many U.S. and Russian figure skaters were on the plane, it reminds me of the 1961 air crash that killed the entire U.S. figure skating team. When I was a kid, the Iceland skating rink in Paramount, CA(home of the first Zamboni) was one of the rinks that I trained at as a Short…

I remember my great-aunt Helen driving down Main Street in Lucas, Kansas in the early 00's looking for her daughter (who was giving me and my parents a walking tour), at age 94.

Yeah, people have been talking about it long enough that there is a word for it, and has been for probably 50 or more years: “Testilying”.

I think Tony Stewart Kurt Busch, Kyle Larson and Danica Patrick in recent years have shown that superspeedway skills translate back and forth at least some. Don’t forget that Danica won the pole at Daytona first time out. She was mediocre everywhere else, but in both IndyCar and NASCAR she was fast on big ovals(even…

You do realize that “moron” is an outmoded word that means exactly the same thing as “retarded”. The word to describe that condition has changed many times over the years as people start using the current word as an insult. See also “Simpleton”, “Imbecile”, and “Feeble-minded”.

Where is everybody hitting animals? in 44 years of driving over half a million miles I’ve hit one rabbit(which reversed course and dove under my wheels), one squirrel(same), and a bird that flew into my windshield. I’ve had plenty more opportunities, but running over small animals is generally not hard to avoid

It can also be a modified existing plane. (although this one isn’t). My uncle is modifying an old Miccosukee airplane by installing a Corvette motor, and has it registered in the experimental class also. (After he retired from 50 years of racing cars, I guess he needed to find something to do with his time and…

I went to high school with her (McCluer North, Class of ‘83 represent!) and while she doesn’t really do roast humor in her act, she would roast people even back then if they did something stupid or gross.

Kathleen would have probably roasted him until he put it away.

I thought she was fine in The Shining. It was Nicholson I hated. It was just him playing a variation on McMurphy for the 15th time. Outside of Chinatown, I found him pretty unwatchable in his youth/early middle age.

Die job, or “Cancer-wig”(TM)?

You can see the difference between an anonymous voice actor and an Emmy winning star, I hope?

I would still contend that if she had been a man and did the same thing, she would have been “a brave truth-teller”.

Huh... it popped up in my feed. I never looked at the date, didn’t realize it was old. That’s happening more and more now, them dumping old articles into my feed.

What she didn’t understand back then was that she was a woman, and women weren’t allowed to have those kinds of opinions. If she had been a dude she would have been “a brave truth-teller” but as a woman she was just a “crazy b*tch”.

It wasn’t really punching down...Shonda was still running the storyline back then. Other peoples names may have been on the scripts, but it was Shonda’s story...and it was awful. It was really the first big mistake Shonda made on the show.

I remember being in love with Amazon back in the day. I’m old enough to remember when books and records would go out of print because booksellers didn’t want to buy one copy of an oldie and hope that it didn’t gather dust for a decade. You would go to a record store or book store and put in a request, and maybe…

“Neurotic, prickly, and quippy” would describe many of Hanks’ roles before he became America’s Dad. Pre-”A League of their Own” and post “A League of their Own” Tom Hanks are almost entirely different actors.

whoops! butt-dialed that reply!

Veronica Mars is where we learned that Kristen Bell is a great singer, years before she did Frozen. She Kareokes the hell out of Blondie’s “One Way Or Another” at some point in season 1, if I recall correctly.