Is he going away for good, or becoming something else, allowing the classic Superman to step in and take his place?

I just feel really bad for that beer. I don’t usually anthropomorphize beer, but not only is a lot getting wasted, what’s left is going to be tainted with chainsaw grease and metal fragments. Poor beer... This world wasn’t good enough for you, was it? Please go to heaven to join your brothers and sisters where you’ll…

You woke me right up!

Fascinating. Thanks!

Great story! Glad to glean a little bit from inside the belly of the beast. I had a friend who worked for a call center, a generally good guy, whose mood darkened before he went into work, and he was somber when he left until someone made him laugh, really laugh. And he never talked about what he did there. Ever. Most…

They had to know. What a different and strange era. I don’t think that would fly a decade earlier or today.

I’m really curious about this; does Comcast (or Time Warner) rot otherwise perfectly good, normal, rational people from the inside out into the intentionally difficult, deceitful, and ignorant people (whom we all have experienced infuriating sequences of events both over the phone and/or in person)? Or do they only…

To quote (and use a picture from) Wikipedia:

That absolutely looks like Allred. (What’s black and blue and red all over? Allred’s work after coloring.)

Point taken. I was just throwing away a one-liner joke.

Isn’t this how “The Matrix” dystopia all got started?

If I had an incredibly rare 2,000 year old gold coin for every time I went on a hike in the last 5 years, I’d have one coin.

Shit, it’s not hard. All you have to do is say, “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.” What the hell took them so long to remember that?

Whenever, or even before, anyone asks this kind of question, first ask: “Is this something that could help out people not like me, such as an individual with a disability?” In most instances, the answer is yes.

Thanks. As do you. Spirited debate can be quite constructive! :)

And I just want to say it here, make it clear if I did not before that I respect your opinion though I disagree with it.

I hear you. My point was to ignore the whole explosives things entirely. I am not talking about that at all. That’s a whole different conversation, and it is one without interest to me for a largesse of reasons.

Exactly: questions. These are all incredibly good questions. Thanks for sharing them.

Yeah, that’s what I meant, the same that “deceleration” does not really exist in terms of physics. Acceleration means change of velocity, whether the velocity is increasing or decreasing. So “deceleration” is just acceleration but but negative instead of positive (slowing instead of decreasing).