"I'd been thinking of little else than my wedding for going on a year."

What Jia said about LL Cool J is true, but probably left you asking, "Okay, well what did it mean when LL Cool J said it?"

"I think maybe your just low intellect?"

I understand his point. That's why I wrote "I disagree with your first sentence" (his assertion that menu prices don't vary much) - I wasn't taking issue with his larger point. In fact, I started the very next paragraph by saying, "As far as a substantive reason for tipping 20% on a bottle of wine, I can't offer…

If you can actually fart glitter, I'd like to have you as a lifelong friend.

I haven't waited tables in 15 years so I can't speak to the attitudes of today's servers but I do agree there was an expectation/sense of entitlement among us when it came to getting tipped on expensive bottles.

I disagree with your first sentence. in my lap right now is a menu for a local Italian place. The cheapest entree is a chicken parm sandwich for $6.95, while the Seafood Pescatore is more than triple the price at $21.50.

It is a little silly for a server to earn $60 for opening a single bottle of wine, but that's the cost of dining out, so suck it up or drink at home.

Well, that's the problem. You've created a false dichotomy where there are only "beer nerds" and "yellow piss American beer drinkers." The reality is that most people fall somewhere in between and those are exactly the people who might click over to a popular sub blog but have not heard of a beer that's brewed on…

This article is not appearing in "Beer Fancy" or "Mustaches and Fixies." It's a sub-blog of a sports blog. It seems pretty reasonable to think the majority of readers have not heard of Supplication.

For whatever it's worth, I didn't take that sentence to mean Mike had never heard of Supplication, but rather, he didn't think most of the readers would have.

Deadspin's treatment of Bill Simmons is petty, but that doesn't mean Bill Simmons isn't a douchebag.

Season 2 was a dog. The worst of 'em all.

Why? Are waiters providing services they didn't use to provide? Are they better trained?

Was that reply for somebody else, because my comment is full of thoughts I was expressing for the first time.

It's true that the tipped minimum wage has been frozen for a long time, but it's also true that a federal law was passed stating that if a server fails to earn enough in tips to bring their average hourly wage up to the state's, normal minimum wage (not merely the tipped minimum wage), the employer must make up the…

Well, I think both of us are going to have trouble finding many restaurants that have been open for 15 years, let alone finding menus for those restaurants to empirically support our claims. Although, Pizza Hut has been running a commercial this past week in which they flash back 20 years to the introduction of their…

You say that like being in Philadelphia is desirable.

I'm sorry, but the worst call in UFC history was that one time I decided to chip in for a UFC PPV.

A tip is calculated as a percentage of the meal's cost, so inflation is already accounted for.