What is this guy, 70 years old? I am an oldster — I remember when Olympia’s whole brand distinction was based on “the water” from lovely Tumwater Washington — though it still, to my taste, didn’t seem much different than Hamm’s, Henry Weinhard’s, Coors (never got the big deal about it) or other beers of that ilk in…
Never got the love for MT until I listened to the wonderful Mary Holland on the Doughboys chain restaurant review podcast. Her enthusiasm (including her playing the MT soundtrack on her way to work at MT) really made me want to go.
Just listened to a fairly funny podcast improv interview with a purported Pilgrim reenactor (not at Plimoth) and thought it was all made up, but then I saw this article and realized it was closer to the truth than it should be.
They just needed more practice....
There.
A star for you just for this: “CoD lobbies are traditionally full of trolls and 12 year olds who have had sex with my mom.”
Really enjoyed the podcast —thanks for posting it. (Also ended up getting the full 4 minute version of the the theme.....)
“The Fuhrer is a complicated guy. Sure, some folks call him a monster, but I had tea with him at Eagle Nest in Berchtesgaden, and we talked dogs, vegetarian cuisine and city planning — never once did he threaten to exterminate every member of my family, gas me, or invade my property and leave it a smoldering ruin of…
My dog Monty agrees.
There is a pretty good novel, The Last Days of Night, which also covers the Edison-Westinghouse fight, and has a somewhat more accurate, if still fictional depiction of Tesla. If the subject interests you, it is worth checking out. I think it was optioned for film as well, but I suspect that with this movie coming out…
When I read this, I recalled an improv comedy interview with a craft brewer that seems pretty accurate, even if fake. (The bit about outrageously and offensively named brews is particularly good.)
That would be news enough, without anything else.
All I know is that the Nixon photo at the top is begging to be Photoshopped.
I just listened to a comedy podcast a couple of weeks ago with an “interview” of a fireworks manufacturer that talked casually about this sort of thing. I just assumed it was made up. Thought the same thing about remarks the guy made about blowing up flocks of birds in mid-air, and turns out that’s a real thing too.…
We have the same mix, and while we love our Wazzie, she is just terrible. Got her as a rescue dog at 12 years old, grossly over weight, barely able to walk, with health problems and we figured we just give her a nice comfortable place to live our her few remaining days. (The family that fatted her up and nearly killed…
Yup. I’m old, and had the version from the 60's:
Satire or not, this “interview” with a manager of this sort of chain is pretty accurate, right down to the buckets o’ fried food:
Had an office temp some years back who microwaved a whole (albeit moderate sized) fish for lunch —head, tail everything. She started to eat it, but left the office kitchen to take a call at her desk. A manager entered the kitchen, was overwhelmed by the cooked fish stench, saw a fork stuck in a whole fish and vomited.
