I don't like Richard Blais. Guy's a humorless turd, and I'm glad he's gone.

"majority"

I think it's weird and a shame to make a Dark and Stormy with nonalcoholic ginger beer. They even sell a brand (Crabbie's) of imported alcoholic ginger beer at the Meijer in my podunk Indiana city, so there's really no excuse not to use the real thing.

"Gone are the days when you could snugly fit Stonehenge next to the Pyramids, then start working on the Hanging Gardens with hardly a worry you’ll be left behind while your opponents focus on churning out granaries and libraries—humbler projects, to be sure, but often more effective in the long run."

I feel like there's a difference between old-fashioned professionally-shot porn with an actor pretending to be a pizza man and a lot of these "pizza dare" videos, which actually feature people sexually harassing/assaulting poorly paid service workers by answering the door naked for yuks and bonerz.

IPAs seem like they're mainstream. The more adventurous places are doing saisons and goses these days.

No Bell's Two-Hearted or Pliny? Bad list.

Are you saying 30 is middle-aged? Oh dear God…say it ain't so!

He was great in Wanderlust, which is a criminally underrated movie.

I rented an apartment from Charles for a year about a decade ago, before he was famous. He's one of the kindest and generally most awesome people I've ever met. This is butt.

Lucky you, that you only got mixed up with CutCo. I spent a couple of weeks in college dodging calls from what I quickly realize was a door-to-door Bible sales racket disguising itself as an "internship."

Yeah, I live in a small city in Indiana (where burgers are supposedly the most popular delivery item) and the only places that deliver are a couple local St Louis-style pizza chains and the Big Three. Keeping out the Big Three is probably 90% of our total delivery. Dumb.

But I guess there's a difference between pronunciation and spelling. It's one thing to pronounce "Walter Benjamin" with a w-sound and a hard j, but another to change the spelling of Leonardo's name to Leonard.

Especially since, consider this: There's this artist called Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. He's from Caravaggio, comes along, revolutionizes painting. Time to give him the one-name treatment. Except! There's already a famous Michelangelo who already revolutionized painting! What to do? Call him "Caravaggio," of…

Art historians don't shorten the artist's name to "Da Vinci," which merely indicates that he's from the town of Vinci, but rather as "Leonardo," which is his name.

I hadn't had one of these since I was a kid, until about a year ago when a friend bought a box one Saturday night. These things are really enormous - way more ice cream and other junk than anyone should eat in one sitting. I was kind of appalled as I housed the thing. Holy crud are they good.

I mean, yeah, it's not a dealbreaker. The show is fantastic. But the usage was a little jarring. I'm sure I'm more attuned to the language than many, since I am in the higher-ed biz.

Sure, but I've only heard it used in reference to graduate students who are running discussion sections for or otherwise assisting in instruction for a college class, not for undergraduates learning to be classroom teachers in primary or secondary schools. That was my question.

Nah, I mean I was a TA when I was in grad school, but that's different from an education major in a high school. Or at least, I would say it was.

Are there places where they call what I know as "student teachers" TA's? That was oddly jarring.