A couple of others from the early 2000s - A Treasure’s Trove (solved and treasures found) and The Whistle Pig (I don’t think its been found). There used to be a site to discuss these and many other armchair treasure hunts, but it’s been taken offline - maybe something on wayback machine for tweleve.org (intentional…

The only car better than my Tacoma was my 4Runner that I gave to my son when he started driving. Welcome Molly & Wylene. *low chanting from the woods, “One of us. One of us”

And, in fact, used to bullseye womp rats in his T-16 back home. They’re not much bigger than two meters.

Ugh - stop calling him that.

And here’s the article.. I think - https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-hero-esq1198/

The neck on that guy! That’s a good looking hunter.

Needs more eye-patch

Mostly unrelated but I saw this picture today from Rosemary’s Baby on a horror movie list and had not realized the resemblance before.

heh - I downloaded the mp3 at telephone speeds, burned it to CD (for some reason, maybe so I could watch it work also) and then watched it at non-stuttering normal speed. The Lucasfilm logo all glittering green, the fog scene, Maul, the green meadows - what a beautiful trailer it was.

Ahem, I believe that should be written as “Spoke Truth to Power _TM“

Waiting for Scorsese and Coppola to chime in.

I was in college at the time (yes, an old fart) and a group of us kept up religiously with Days of Our Lives.  So this movie was must-see just because of Patch (Nichols).

Probably a gyropter - link refers to events from all the books so don’t click if you don’t want anything spoilery. https://hdm.fandom.com/wiki/Gyropter

“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”

Within one minute of finding out the whistleblower is a woman, himself will pull out the “Nasty” card.

Tough little ship...

I bet that’s where he learned it from - fucking diva robot (disclaimer - never saw the movie).

“Your father wanted to name you Spud,” my mom verified, “and that’s about as far as that got.”

Meta can be all right.  The two video games I play discuss the current meta (flavor-of-the-month ship fitting or loadouts).  But to say it in a work setting, ugh.

One of my groups at the office is in charge of the accounting metadata!  Not the data - that’s the job for accountants, but the metadata.