Me too!

Thanks for the clarification! Feeling dumb now—I honestly didn’t even think of that interpretation, though it’s doubtless more common than what I was thinking.

“But to call them freeway shootings or similar incidents, it’s unclear at this point.”

I expect it would only cost a few hundred thousand dollars for the latch to be matched to your footedness. I’m too much of a peasant to even inquire into the possibility.

My impression is that a significant amount of non-professional conservative political commentary is trolling. They don’t believe what they’re writing or even that they’ll persuade their readership; success is about upsetting their opponents.

Thanks for this. It’s been forever since I’ve read about electricity, so I can’t judge accuracy, but you’ve certainly made it vivid and scary. :-)

20k? And I thought I was special.

“My yellow ribbon magnet is of the highest priority!”

I’m in the same boat.

Random-ish question: Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox were born in what’s considered the Baby Boom, which ended in 1964. The rest of the cast are younger but all born in the 1960s.  Do people think of Friends as a boomer comedy? Generation Jones? Generation X? I’m just curious.

Not to sound elitist, but is the vast majority of the audience for this show just hate-watching? If not, then it should be.

The WRAL site has

I used to drive I-40 in North Carolina every day between Raleigh and the Research Triangle Park (RTP) one miserable summer. It’s well-built but practically a parking lot during rush hour. Not especially relevant, being so far away, except that when there was an accident it was as though the entire region was slowed…

I sure hope he said ‘peanuts’ was my tag line for some time.

Also “’tis”. It’s the 21st century. We write or say “it is” or “it’s”.

In the late 1980s my wife and I were traveling through Central America and we rented a car. (I think this was in Guatemala.) No seatbelts. They weren’t disabled or removed—they apparently had never been installed.

“Gob less.”
“I’ll try.”

It is weird! And a little annoying, the cultural generalizations made from demographics, based on one’s birth year. The stereotypes at best apply to people in the middle, but once you get out into the tails of the distribution... Please.

Right. People born in 1963 or 1964 (my wife and me, for example) don’t automatically identify with people almost old enough to be their parents.

Me too. Six figures is not nothing (though it’s also not necessarily a million dollars, as this piece has it).