That would be IHOP/Waffle House, though there's about equal amounts in St. Louis (though there were way more IHOPs than Waffle Houses around where I lived when I was a kid than recently—If I recall correctly, Waffle Houses only started popping up here en masse within the last 10-15 years). The number of Denny's are…

Judging by numerous car trips from St. Louis to Jacksonville, FL (where I have relatives) growing up, once you leave the Mason-Dixon line (which, in my estimation, is about 45 minutes or so south of St. Louis—though, granted, it's been years since I've driven this way), White Castles (which are all over the St. Louis…

Don't forget the store in the front of each Cracker Barrel restaurant with all the cheesy knick-knacks that really bring the "white" in "white trash". (Also, the "Cracker" in "Cracker Barrel". And so on.)

As long as it's not missionary. Then they can officially go to hell.

I was a huge fan of NKOTB back in the day ("back in the day" being age 9 and 10), but I fully admit that, in retrospect, the music was crap. It hasn't really aged well, either. I was reminded of this, sitting in a restaurant, and listening to a Jackson 5 song last week. ("I Want You Back", I think it was.) I started…

No, but when you don't have any older siblings, and you don't have the Internet to look up what a "pussy wagon" is, you assume (at least until you enter middle school—at least that's how it was with me) that "pussy" only means "cat". I think another reason why it took me so long to figure out "the chicks'll cream"…

Now I'm thinking of the NewsRadio Space episode, in which Bill McNeal smokes what the '90s imagined e-cigs were like (which didn't seem too far off from what they actually look like now).

There's a scene in Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, which sucks for a multitude of reasons other than the one I'm about to list, in which they go into a diner. In the movie, they're in the 1950s. If you've seen any news footage from that period, or, hell, I don't know…Grease…you know diners and cigarettes were…

As someone who was recently hospitalized for a relapse of bipolar symptoms (primarily depressive symptoms, and triggered by finding out my father had been diagnosed with both prostate and kidney cancer pretty much the moment I got back from my honeymoon), while I certainly can't tell you what state of mind Kurt Cobain…

Regarding the Bobby Moynihan Update character—liked it the first time when it was played by Gilda Radner back in the '70s and was named Emily Litella.

Or USA, for that matter…

True, but the same thing still applies. Every fanbase has its share of douchebag fans, and I know there's some Red Sox fans who have their facepalm moments in terms of douchebag segment of their fanbase, just as I do with the douchebag segment of mine.

To say the entire Cardinal fan base is attempting to police baseball is a hasty generalization. I feel the blame goes more squarely at the local St. Louis media (and yes, some fans as well—but I feel it's more of a generation-type thing in that regard, generally-speaking), but I personally never cared about whether…