Hidebound baseball GMs are loath to employ the newfangled hockey analytics approach of drafting the best-available prospect-with-a-last-name-you-recognize.

I’d heard that white-hot arena gods Creed had moved on to other projects the last couple years, but it’s the first I learn that Scott Stapp had found employment as a Blue Jay.

The day after two mass-shootings, you pop your head back up and persist? You should have deleted your account and scrubbed your pro-gun death bullshit.

Just to stay on track, and/or humour me because it’s the weekend, I think we need to review the definition of ‘disfigurement’.  It would be more accurate here to speak of an amputation rather than a disfigurement

So I wasn’t the only one who made the sexist assumption that this has to be a lady, based on the handwriting and the smiley face?

Goodwill or any such store will sell you all the glasses you can carry for 5$ or so.

Is there even a 10% chance that this letter is not a hoax, not someone catfishing our Instograms for clicks?

Interesting answers from everyone, thanks. My impression of wait/bartending jobs is that they’re relatively popular and attractive, in high demand, since you can make decent money for relatively easy work. You earn more than minimum wage, more than retail jobs because of your tips, and it’s not like you’re mining coal…

She was judging the book by its cover, despite my efforts. And not that I blame her. I didn’t have any of their music to play, and there was no YouTube back then to provide context.

The Los Angeles Transplants

People make fun of Rockports nowadays, and I don’t get it.

Starred, and I’d star again just for your use of “the new Mile High Stadium”.

All the swearing makes yours a more compelling argument.  I’m somewhat cowed by you, and thankful you can’t get at me through the keyboard.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/le-ch%C3%A2teau-rocked-by-brutal-competition-dianne-buckner-1.2760942

Remember these shoes had to be polish-able and decent-looking for the front desk, but also subjected to the abuse of water and grease of restaurant/kitchen work. I thought the Rockports were a great intersection of affordability and style. Certainly compared to my coworkers who’d wear Le Chateau or Sears and get them…

I learneded it and adopted it and smartered up last week, from someone else on Splinter or somewheres.

I learneded it and adopted it and smartered up last week, from someone else on Splinter or somewheres.

“You have to pay a busser or host minimum wage...”

The heresy...