I learned how to drive a manual transmission in a car with a pedal for the emergency brake. It made it impossible for me to use that trick on hills.

Somehow, CarMax has figured out how to get back at you for that warranty on your Range Rover: make sure that the person that appraises each of your other vehicles is the one guy in the area with actual experience with whatever weird hunk of automotive technology you bring in.

Well, no, Hardy wasn’t actually convicted of a “truly terrible” crime. He was certainly accused of the crime, and charged with the crime, but the article points out the fact that he wasn’t convicted of it.

What possessed you to eat 52 slices of CiCi’s pizza? I’ll admit to eating there on occasion, but the food isn’t good enough to warrant that level of discomfort.

He seems like he’d top out at State Representative or maybe State Senator.

Don’t look at the name on the box. Those are Sony guts inside that TV.

Why eight innings, and what does the near-universal availability of electricity in the US have anything to do with it?

Maybe his pants have a silicon strip in the interior of the waistband to keep the shirt from coming untucked so easily. Or maybe he just uses the same two-sided tape that some women use to keep dresses from peeling away from their boobs on the red carpet.

Have LED screens really gotten to the point where they’re flexible enough for a comfortable(-ish) seat, or am I going to be sitting in a church pew when I enter this thing?

I ended up reading Get Shorty just so I could find out what the movie-within-the-movie was about. I enjoyed the book enough to check out some of his other stuff, but most of the books on this list are ones I haven’t read.

So from the picture, I’m assuming you mean the remake of The Fly rather than the original?

I’m not familiar with the NHL’s union agreement, so forgive me for sounding dumb with this question: what are the chances this gets drastically lowered because the league overstepped its suspension authority Roger Goodell-style?

I’ve got a lump of graphite at the base of my right thumb from a self-inflicted accidental stabbing over 30 years ago. That shit does not go away.

I would like the Cubs to win, and then slide back into mediocrity just for the enjoyment of watching a bunch of yuppies deal with the facts that they can’t claim the “lovable losers” tag anymore and they don’t have a playoff team to root for.

It was probably four. Once for practice, then once for each of the kids.

Thank you. This is the second or third time I’ve seen “DEFCON 5” used as a metaphor for “total freak-out” this week, and I was starting to wonder if the scale got reversed since War Games came out.

Why not you then? Hire a lip reader, submit the article to Deadspin, and perhaps make a profit on the whole thing.

People desperate to get their car fixed and assuming that nothing will go wrong with the repairs will sign that contract in a heartbeat.

As long as the shop could prove that the age and/or mileage of the car were the *only* reasons for refusing service (because they frankly smell like pretexts for discriminatory refusals to provide service), I can’t see any reason why it would be a problem. It might actually be refreshing to have a mechanic admit to…

Close to what I was thinking—is Apollo 13 a better comparison to this movie than Cast Away?