If you took Russian back then at any level, that specific edition was pretty much the only one available unless you had access to Soviet bookstores or academic libraries.

Great catch. On another book related front, the English-Russian dictionary is accurate enough for that period, though, that it induced an involuntary shudder for the nightmares associated with its usage.

Yep, Robin’s hair was what got me going in the previews since between it being nothing like 1985 and the boys not updating even a little bit it felt off. (Note El’s hair style after she visits the mall.) In contrast, we have Nancy (good) and even better, the Orange Julius splat girls (dead on).

Which is also reinforced by the several references to Phoebe Cates in the rest of the episode. I suspect the Duffer brothers may have gotten an early DVD copy.

Billy finding himself on a slight detour on the way to the Motel 6 in his bitchin’ Camaro was about as obvious as the sun and yet warmly satisfying.

While I’d generally agree with you on the trope being overused, it’s framed far better than you imply here. This ends up being a lot more about Mike having developed into a genuine teenage asshole to Hopper than said policing.

“What has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this–America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her…

• 12 eggs

I may make this tomorrow.

It’s nuclear powered. Any time there’s potential release of nuclear material it’s all hands on deck in a normal presidency, although how Trump’s NATSEC team actually works is another question.

It’s generally considered a pretty high honor to march in an inauguration, and welcome home parades tend to be liked a lot. Small town ones can be nice too, although that tends to be more reservists than active duty.

They haven’t released the ranks of the other half of the casualties, but when you lose 7 full captains and 2 Heroes of Russia (I was slightly off when I posted that on mobile as I combined the two) on a single crew there was something utterly extraordinary going on to get them all together on this cruise.

My NATSEC feeds have been lighting up all day that there’s a possibility the Pence non trip (he actually never left DC, partially because there was a report of a shooter at the airbase he was going to visit) might have something to do with the Russian sub going down in the Black Sea.

VEVO sadly seems to have nuked the upload of this that had better sound quality and that wasn’t cropped, unfortunately, but I still think his 1978 NYE performance with the Oakland Symphony at the Paramount is probably the best ever of this song.

Suicide isn’t suspected.

Just looked it up and it turns out the link is right, except their genesis is reversed: Diet Coke came out in 1982, and New Coke’s formula was largely based off of it, just with a substitution of sugar and corn syrup in far higher quantities than the aspartame in the former. For me at least, that massive glucose spike…

Having spent a large amount of time in so-called flyover country, not really. A few years of lag is appropriate, but not more than that save for holdouts or those completely oblivious.

His hair retains its unreal volume

While it’s been 25ish years since I routinely guzzled 2 liter bottles of New Coke/Coke II - I miss my metabolism from those years - from what I remember Diet Coke isn’t anywhere close to the sweetness.

In my experience, many Brits can’t identify the difference between most American accents and a Canadian one - but many will assume you’re the latter (since as it’s been explained to me) if you misidentify an American as a Canadian they’re surprised, but if you misidentify a Canadian as an American they tend to be…