Here in north Texas, it’s like a time machine - Piggly Wiggly held the top spot fifty years ago, Safeway was in its prime forty years ago, WinnDixie had a moment thirty years ago, Food Lion took a stab but fell apart quickly, Albertsons had a dominant decade or so twenty years ago, was mostly supplanted by Kroger ten…

Because very few 1-week TV promotions are worthwhile, so whenever restaurant do promotions like this, web sites / social media are the only way to actually promote them (and for most consumers to find out about them). After all, few people will open a fast food app before making their decision to go there.

The Dallas Auto Show often looks like this on weekdays, but the interesting one to watch will be the upcoming State Fair Auto Show. Being on the fairgrounds, it’s usually pretty crowded even though it’s generally a pretty small thing for the carmakers.

I take it that this was a list of what is currently available for streaming? I can recall at least three other Robin Hoods, and two other Pinocchios - not including movies using those characters that were not even loose adaptations of the original tales.

Absolutely. In a similar vein, conservatives tend to idolize some point in the past without realizing that this point was when they were living off their parent’s generosity and hadn’t really started their career. In other words, when the living was easy and they didn’t really need to consider the real life challenges…

He just almost admitted that he might possibly have nearly been wrong, but not really.

Almost every “smart” device is literally a dumb device that relays every ounce of information it can reach to internet based servers which possess the actual processing capability. If it can’t do 100% of its work off the internet, it should be illegal to call it a “smart” device.

Oklahoma is mostly boring - except for the last stretch of roads as you move from Oklahoma into Arkansas. The stretch that is so brief there is no opportunity to turn off of it to go north or south is full of low mountains and genuinely pretty - for most of the year. If you’re forced to drive through the eastern…

If you aren’t remorseful and are trying to convince me you are, it is my business. And, you’re an asshat. You can never deserve forgiveness without repentance.  That’s the problem with too many religions.

Nice to see the kinja-verse finally acknowledging that black & white films are worth recognition again. Haven’t seen much appreciation of pre-internet era media of any type since io9 imploded. I really miss that.

No one has ever made a better breakfast-in-your-car meal.

1979, The Amityville Horror. (Rated R). I was 12, but lived in a small town and it was easy to get into movies I wasn’t supposed to - they didn’t care. I had already read the book, and was heavily into a cryptid / ghost stories phase, so I thought I was prepared. This was long before amateur ghost hunter shows took…

Dawdler, if your car requires you to step on the brake to start your engine, take your foot off the brake until you are prepared to shift out of Park and leave. Active tail lights imply that you are about to move in one direction or another.

Any mention of Ihigenia brings this to mind:

Not a joke.

Do I apply the rule to myself? You bet. In fact, it has been literally years since I’ve been in a parking lot without spaces all over, once you accept that walking an extra fifty yards won’t kill you.

Don’t forget the perennial classic, “Read the obituary pages.”

As always, use your turn signals.

If you see someone climbing back into their car DO NOT stop in the aisle, waiting for them to back out. The reality of modern life is that someone returning to their car will start the engine to get their A/C and radio running, then spend the next minute or more organizing their phone - all before even starting to…

e.g.: HTML works pretty well on both big-screen monitors and tiny cell phone screens.