Everyone ignore the old timer.

No argument from me. The way I feel, I’m not even close to immortal.

Always nice to find someone older than me. Worried you might be a vampire, though.

We were living in the US at the time for my wife’s job and I wasn’t allowed to work, so I trundled downstairs where the boys have been watching a cartoon and they told me it had been interrupted. I looked, saw the hole and the smoke and heard someone on the news say “small plane in the World Trade Center,” and wanted…

Ha! Me too. Papers and some stuff from Rice Krispies and a couple of other things. I’ll have to go dig those out and bathe in memories for awhile.

You made me do the math, and while I thought it was when the year was warmer, it has to be Apollo 14 landing on the Moon, Jan 31-Feb 5 1971. I was in grade 2, Mrs. Margel’s class at Afton Elementary in Edmonton, and our class was in a portable a good 200 feet from the school. She brought in a tiny little B&W TV (black…

Don’t forget his stint on Dancing With the Stars. He’s clearly still in the highest echelons.

I for one am looking forward to Zlatan bringing some Berbatovian speed and effort to Old Trafford. And Rashford doing lots of sitting.

Lots of people calling the game “dire” or “mostly-uninspired.” I’m chatting with my kid via FB (he’s in Romania right now) and told him about some of the thoughts here as we talked about today’s game. His response:

Y’know, I’m Canadian and therefore, by default, a hockey fan. But hockey players put in 20-30 seconds for a shift. In soccer, you get 3 subs in a game, max. Once that’s done, you dance with what brung ya. They go to penalties because the other option is to possibly kill one or more players, people who already run…

If you’re trashing Edmonton the City, then them’s fighting words. If you’re trashing Edmonton the Oilers, then carry on.

This makes me cry tears of joy. MONSTER tears.

It’s because we’re all socialists up here. Both teams have to be on the left side of the field.

I vote for performance art on an epic level. Don’t play poker with this guy.

My kid was in Reykjavik for one of the opening round matches, and watched it in a central square with a shitload of other people. Maybe they all left their home TVs on and tuned to the wrong channel just to fuck with the system.

It’s also often very spontaneous. Yes, you’ve felt like crap for a long time and often contemplated it, but the decision to do it is new. A relative recently tried to commit suicide, and the regret was (truly) instantaneous, such that said relative’s parents were immediately alerted and things worked out for the…

Except the guy who broke in likely did it himself, rather than having assistants do it.

It’s not that much effort to lick the cat’s face, is it?

Many (good lord, TOO many) years ago I did night time ride along with a buddy in the RCMP, and we answered a call for a break-in at an apartment. 12yo girl living with her big sis (only 18 or 19), opened the closet door and found a strange man standing there. Happy for all involved, he took off, but holy shit, I was…

Or to put it another way, I read she was banned from 20% of the US. Which makes it sound a little harsher.