“Dog whistle...”

And ... in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

The E-type made me make an indecent sound in my seat, damn you.

There’s a picture of Andre with Wilt Chamberlain (7'2") and Arnold Schwarzenegger (6'1") on the set of Conan the Destroyer. Andre was about 6'11". The rest of your points are well-founded, but there was considerable exaggeration of Andre’s height by the wresting PR machine.

Interestingly, posting slate.com links shaves 10 points off your IQ as perceived by others.

Granting everything you said, Muresan ran the same way.

Good. I’ll blame Brad Whitford and one of us will be right.

U2 and Springsteen are two of the five most overrated rock acts of all time (Doors, Dylan, Dead if you’re interested); Cheap Trick is best-of-breed and deserves much better than to be compared to J.Geils (huh?) or Twisted Sister (DIAF), and you’re right about the Clash.

This is entirely fair.

The older I get, the better AC/DC gets.

I suspect those things are complementary.

American Standard. The toilet of choice. Also the home furnace of choice, but I digress.

I moved from Chicago to California, so enjoying the weather here is a personal achievement.

Ford Polyp

What, exactly, do you think it’s rapier than?

Pot isn’t “harmless” and no one has ever claimed so. It’s just that pot being legal is less harmful than pot being illegal.

Never do that.

Dodgers fans are all like

They should all be given small clubs or saps; this I would watch.

They’re iconic.