I should have known that putting money on the octopus to win was a sucker bet.

Good luck getting this one back to the starting line.

I generally agree, though I think the advice to “Sign it, but sign it small. Then you can add trustees, or several trustees, and the name of the trust,” while clever, opens up a number of legal issues. If there’s room for someone else to sign the ticket, can’t they claim that you had agreed to split the prize with…

That orphan nailed it in one take too- though Fincher shot another 30 anyway.

One of the unforeseen consequences of auto manufacturers mostly going to alphanumeric names is that they make these pun threads much more difficult.

Wikipedia suggests the name’s popularity coincides with that of Gary Cooper. (Who was born Frank James Cooper, but took his stage name from his agent’s hometown of Gary, Indiana.)

True, but that’s what makes it so insidious. Consulting is like an infectious agent for jargon that takes it out of the one environment where it might make some sense and spreads it across the entire working world. It’s the reason a modern office job can at times sound like a hospital, a military base, a car assembly…

It’s better known as Led Zeppelin IV mail.

Sea Org eventually becoming the Enclave actually makes a terrifying amount of sense.

Kristofferson must be wondering, “Why me?” He was just trying to spend Sunday mornin’ comin’ down the slopes and looking for the good times when he was attacked by a convoy of highwaymen.

It’s not unusual for the minimum bet on a “penny slot” to be more than the minimum for a 25 cent machine, as many 25 cent machines will let you play a single line (at the worst odds available, of course), but many penny slots have a minimum of 40 lines.

It turns out those claw machine games are secretly a Last Starfighter-style audition for the job. Win enough stuffed animals and mp3 players, they’ll recruit you.

When I first saw this question, I decided on “heartbreaker” precisely because the Seattle loss rather vividly came to mind. But then I found the logic of those who went with “blowout” convincing: it can really hurt to realize that your team never even had a chance.

Both are apparently based on a tourism poster from 1935 designed by Lothar Heinemann, “Deutschland, das Land der Musik.” (Which is why there’s a pipe organ in the middle.) Very strange that Munich would reuse the image, given its prominent use on Vollmann’s National Book Award-winning novel.

Ugh, for the love of God, Montresor.

I was blown away by NEScardinality’s Dragon Warrior run. DW is such a simple, linear RPG that tool-assisted speedruns which manipulate random events (spawning high-experience rare enemies, guaranteeing critical hits, etc.) can beat it in minutes, but in normal gameplay there’s so much grinding required that a record…

This injury probably wouldn’t affect Brady at all if there happened to be a way to make a football softer and easier to grasp. Hypothetically, if one were to underinflate the ball, that might do the trick.

I saw that and thought to myself that those numbers, while not exactly diet food, were not as bad as I was expecting. Then I considered whether I had ever in my life stopped at having a single biscuit.

Have the “put the team on his back” guy do a full narration of the NFL Films highlights.