Can we also ban texting while you’re waiting for the light to change, not seeing the light change, failing to start crossing with everyone else, standing there staring at your phone like a moron until everyone else is clearing the crosswalk and the cars waiting to turn are starting to move, then starting to cross?

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You want sad? In 20 years of having our own place together (7 in an apartment, 13 in our house) we can count the number of trick-or-treaters we’ve gotten on one hand.

Stupid kid didn’t realize that you have to wait until you’re a full on cop with union protection before you do stuff like that.

I had a bunch of collections of older Peanuts comics back then and have good memories of reading them, but yeah his output during that time was kinda meh.

As a kid back when it first started I thought it was funny, but you have to realize that back then all I had to compare it to was stuff like Wizard of Id, Andy Capp, Family Circus, Beetle Bailey, Ziggy, and Cathy. Next to that lineup Garfield looked like distilled comedic brilliance.

Yup. Same thing I’ve heard about floyd mayweather and boxing. Some people claim his matches are “boring” to watch because he’s a very calculated, defensive fighter and wins on points instead of brute force. But he’s there to win, not get his face smashed in for your amusement.

One of our neighbors has a black walnut tree, and it’s a yearly tradition to not only find walnut shells all over our walk from the squirrels eating them, but to come home to whole walnuts crammed into the spaces in the metalwork on our outer door because some enterprising squirrel has decided that he’s found the…

Three “animals in the walls” stories.

Different library systems have different policies (source, 20 years in the biz) and some can be really unfairly strict IMO. My system caps late fines at a flat 6 bucks for adult and 1$ for children’s books. Lost book fees are removed as long as you get it back within a year and you just pay the late fee, and if…

It reminds me of when I was working at a group home for developmentally disabled adults and would watch football games with one of the residents. He’d get angry and frustrated when one team would have a good lead going into the last few minutes and would just run out the clock in order to win.

Check out their website. On the bottom in small type is a note.

I remember back in the early 80s reading my parent’s copy of “The People’s Guide to Mexico.” (Basically a travel guide for hippies with minimal resources.) and their advice for a vehicle to take was flat out “Beetle or Beetle van/camper.” because no matter how bad it was or how far out in the sticks you were, you…

I can’t recall the name, but my favorite at the time (early to mid 90s) was a PC space exploration and trading game that came with a star map and among other things, a cardboard doohickey whose use wasn’t immediately apparent. Every once in a while in-game you’d be asked to place the doohickey on the map, oriented to…

Yeah, we should totally make things harder for the mothers who are forced to rely on public transportation to get their infants around. Fuck em if they can’t afford a car I always say.

Which is highly amusing given that the film that made it famous was about an endurance run.

As someone who watched Smokey & the Bandit too many times as a kid, damn that is a pretty car.

From the info on the RK motors site it sounds like he was determined to buy and preserve the car from the get-go. He didn’t even allow the mounting of a licence plate frame because he didn’t want any drill holes. He was basically the car version of the kid who buys comics and never reads them, just immediately puts…

What if it’s revealed that the klingon scientists discovered how to reverse the tetryon polarity of their ass detecting wands, thus clearing up the magnetic nano-interference and allowing them to add a phased baryon array, enabling them to utilize a trans-warp data matrix and resulting in a quantum increase in their…

I was on the bus home last week and there was a woman who was doing her best to calm her cranky toddler. The kid had finally just dozed off when a stereotypical fat, shave-headed old asshole on a harley revved his engine to ear splitting levels right next to us at a stoplight, causing everybody to nearly jump out our…