Holy god, I would love to try made from scratch scrapple.

It’s top of my “gotta bring some back” list every time I visit the family in PA. I have a frozen brick of Habersett in my freezer right now.

A guy above had a good explanation about how it’s a term used in pro wrestling for a scripted thing that is meant to appear spontaneous to the audience.

This is a great write-up. But I think your interpretation of the original statement is backwards.

+1 for missing BCO.

Yeah, you have to include the Cosby Show in the conversation, unfortunately. Even if our view of it now is tainted, it’s worth discussing the impact it had on the culture *at the time*.

The two that leapt to mind that I watched when I was young are “Good Times” (74-79), set in Chicago, and “What’s Happening!” (76-79), set in LA. The latter was more explicitly focused on the teens. And both are really in the “sitcom” category. I guess “Good Times” was kind of a precursor to the 80s “Family Matters”? I…

Great answer! I didn’t even think of that, but it’s true, that was a really diverse show.

How far back do you want to go? Because I can think of some — not specifically “high school drama” shows but shows about black teenagers and families that include school, that were positive... but you gotta go back to the 70s. (That you have to go so far back to find them is itself an indictment of what TV has become.)

I mean, sure: you could take the “pfft, an inch of snow, what babies!” approach to reporting on the weather. It makes you sound ill-informed about actual weather conditions, but if that’s your aim, great.

In addition to what the others are noting about the paradoxical undressing stage of hypothermia, by that time, someone’s brain also isn’t functioning properly. They’re delusional. Thus undressing, which obviously is an irrational response to the situation. It’s very common.

Even with no drinking involved, undressing is extremely common in cases of advanced hypothermia.

Hah, I just posted the same above. I get eyerolls from some friends about it but I still make them do it.

My friends and I have just expanded it to “text me when you get inside so I know you’re not dead in a ditch somehwere”. Some of them roll their eyes at me, but I still make them do it.

Aww, that’s wonderful. I got to see Phil once, solo, in an extremely tiny venue in Cambridge MA, which was wonderful. I would have loved to see Johnny solo. I’d still go to see any of them if they came around; I’ll have to check whether Phil is touring at all. I had JUST been thinking a couple of weeks prior to…

Best wishes for kicking breast cancer’s ass. I have one friend who got it in her 50s and has been in remission for over 10 years. And heck, I have a great-aunt who got it really young, back in the 1960s (when I shudder to think what the treatment was like), and she is still kicking today in her 80s. If anything, it’s…

FUCKING WHAT.

SAME.

That will always be the first thing I think of when I think of him. I love that movie in an unreasonable way, the whole cast is perfect, and he was wonderful in it.

There’s a reason I’m really glad I live in MA, where I can remain anonymous in the very unlikely event I ever become a huge lottery winner.