always heard “hässliche Ente” in Munich back in the 90s!

(speaking of The First Edition) ... pretty sure Kenny Rogers has had more facelifts since 2008 than the Challenger.

if this isn’t straight-up Dunning-Kruger effect territory, it’s a closely related corollary!

Step 1: Audience Member wins brand new car.

I kinda love your grandma for that.

Wait, this is for real? Because based on my viewing experience, it’s also the opening premise of a whole lot of bad 90s gay porn.

I love the idea of a re-animated Ol’ Dirty Bastard playing in the NFL.

I thought you were talking about Kevin Bacon ... which would be a fair comparison (both actors pop up seemingly everywhere and have moments of greatness but far more moments of ... Meh.

Lawyers.  Lots of us also wax nostalgic about the lost glory days of drafting / editing in WordPerfect “Reveal Codes” mode, which was glorious.

so “Sweep the tires”?

THIS is why I Kinja.

at least they tried some sort of accommodation, even if it only highlights how arbitrary these age limits are.

I’ve always understood* that actively enlisted military can buy and consume alcohol on the base in order to avoid the lunacy of “you can die in combat, but you can’t drink hooch yet”.

I’d guess R. Kelly’s writing Potato Pee Lady a whole damn album, not just a letter.

Sadly, “MY-lin” is the “correct” pronunciation of Milan, Michigan.

But even gen-mod testes would certainly have more wrinkles than these two pretty boys, even at their ages ... flash back to the electro-shock scene. All of the reaction shots showing Johnson/Statham’s faces were done from the ground up, which I assume is because neither of them can wrinkle his forehead anymore from…

Do those table umbrellas look like giant penises? or am I just feeling extra queer today?

both Germany and France operate under a statute-based Civil Code system, as opposed to a precedent-based Common Law system. But that doesn’t mean by any stretch of the imagination that Germany’s Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch is in any way related to or based on France’s Napoleonic Code. They are entirely different beasts…

my Dad custom ordered an ‘84 Plymouth Voyager before a single one had come off the assembly lines — ours was definitely one of the first dozen or so on the streets here in Toledo, and we got asked some version of “What is it? Do you like it? How many kids fit in there? What did it cost?” at least once every time we…

There was a beachcomber dog at my folks’ cottage when I was a kid who belonged to one of the local year-round families. Super-friendly Golden Retriever mix who would just whore around for attention and food from all of us visiting kids and our folks. Seemed like every family had a different name for him. To us, he was…