So I met a woman in November 1993 and we hit it off rather quickly. I’d been recording Animaniacs each day on the VCR and watching after work. I told her about it and she was excited to finally see it. So she came over one day and I played that day’s episode for her, sight unseen. Turns out it was the one with all the…

The Sarah Connor Chronicles was another one. It was literally bursting with ideas that the movies almost never had the imagination to even think about looking at.

carved dining chairs from the Douglas MacArthur suite

I wouldn’t use that to serve honored guests, and I don’t often host parties for Nazis and Grifters.

As someone who has studied piracy extensively, Stede Bonnet is the most pathetic pirate.  He was a rich plantation owner from Barbados who I guess got bored with life and tried to become a pirate.  On his first voyage he attacked a Man o War with a sloop, akin to a destroyer fighting a battleship.  He lost and nearly…

It’s got a cop motor, a 130 kilowatt plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks...

Any of those mondegreens make more sense than comparing Africa's tallest mountain to another, much shorter mountain.

“Horse With No Name” is a classic example that always comes to mind with amazing lines like “There were plants and birds and rocks and things” and “Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain” (I get what he was trying to do with that line, but it’s still a headache in word form). 

I just always assumed Steve Miller has the worst with Texas, Facts is, Justice, taxes

“In this proposal, we replace the Spirit of Ecstasy with a likeness of Baphomet”

Absolutely. The movie’s one flaw is that it has a three-dimensional and believable character as the villain, rather than a cackling, moustache-twirling EEEEVVVIILLL guy imported lock, stock and barrel from fifty other films? The flaw is that the villain doesn’t look like a villain, and makes you sympathise with him…

The worst part about Sohla leaving BA (obviously aside from her apparently terrible treatment at the hands of commenters at Serious Eats, and now the management at BA) is that she was a great chef, and more importantly, an AMAZING teacher. She was always so great at describing what she was doing and why she was doing…

For the first eight months or so, you basically got it to be a DVD player (which to be fair, was a stupendously awesome bargain to grab a DVD player at that price that would eventually have awesome video games too). It took until the following summer with Gran Turismo 3 to be the first real million-plus-seller “you…

Just chuckling over here at “president of Intellivision.”

This looks like what I would stencil in 7th grade. It is distinctive but in no way professional.

Alice Purslay. 

Just remember to wear your anti-static grounding mustache. (You can edit it out later.)

Originally I tried to transcribe it in full, but I quickly realized that describing it was actually going to be funnier. I’m just glad it made it through the edit.

I don’t know this guy from Adam and it was still a great read. Especially the inclusion of this: