I think my favorite part of that clip is Burnette putting her head in her hands just as Conway gets going. It’s almost like she’s mentally bracing herself.

Glorious!

Dooley repeatedly screaming ‘Refund!?’ and waking up in a hospital bed might be my favorite part of the whole film. Man, is there anything Paul Dooley didn’t make better?

Yeah, the bread being connected is irrelevant. The key is that the hot dog is (check this out, non-believers) ‘sandwiched’ between bread components.

I completely agree. I think he’s had a terrific year.  Horford does a ton of things that won’t show up in an ESPN highlight, so idiots who don’t watch him closely assume he isn’t contributing anything. I don’t know why, but there are people who believe that if a player isn’t a high scorer he must not be any good,…

I don’t think Achilles was a god either.

There does seem to be a precedent.

I used to work as a proofreader for an ad agency that handled recruitment ads. A client once submitted an ad for an opening for a architect and listed among the duties, ‘architecting on a daily basis’. The proofreading team had a hearty laugh over that one.  It was dumb then and it’s dumb now.

Yeah, I couldn’t agree more. The parents did this only to fulfill their own dream. The interest, aptitude, and wishes of the daughter were irrelevant. What was important was being able to tell people about their USC daughter. I’m sure the parents think they did it for the daughter, but that’s not why they did it. If…

I’ve only seen about a dozen episodes and had to stop watching because the detectives are the most incompetent I’ve ever seen on television. They start every case by deciding who did whatever the crime is and spend the rest of the hour trying to pin it on them, regardless of the evidence, and they’re nearly always…

The Fiat 124 is a sports car. Yeah,I expected to see more sports cars on the list and then it ocurred to me that most mass-market manufacturers don’t make sports cars any more. There’s a few muscle cars in production, but they’re not really sports cars. In fact, the Fiat and the Miata are really the only ones I can…

Yeah, I was kind of afraid that was the case. In the pictures I’ve seen of them recently, they look quite different than in those I remember seeing when I was a kid in the 70's. Of course, my memory might be inaccurate but I seem to recall the green being a lot more subtle before.

I’ve never had a Shamrock Shake.  I like mint ice cream, so every year when the shake pops up, I think “I’m going to try one this year”.  I never remember to do it, though.

Ok, that is pretty good. The pause really lets you savor the whole thing. I still have to give the nod to Olson, though this is a strong contender.

Every so often, I’ll find myself using King Kaiser’s (Joseph Bologna) “Jiminy Cricket Pest-Bastard” from My Favorite Year. It’s fun to say.

No one has ever said ‘Goddammit’ better than Kaitlin Olson.  In so many ways, too!

That’s a solid list. I’d prefer Quark’s to 10 Forward. Quark’s had games and shady dealings while 10 Forward had all the atmosphere of a cheap airport lounge.  Which is ironic, as Quark’s was functionally an airport lounge.

Oh yeah!  I couldn’t agree more.

I guess I can see that. ‘Freshly cut’ wouldn’t be exciting enough, I suppose.  I think I’ll still let it irritate me, though.

‘Yum’ and all of its derivatives are at the top of my list and in my opinion should be dropped from a person’s vocabulary at the age of about 12. Every time I hear an adult use any of them, it suggests to me a weird (possibly subconscious) desire to express oneself as though a child, which isn’t a quality I…