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I worked for Kroger for nearly ten years. They absolutely refuse to hire more than the bare minimum amount of people needed to do a job. Everything falls apart if somebody goes on vacation or calls out sick.

Even prestige HBO dramas like Deadwood. Garret Dillahunt played two different prominent roles.

If thieves were smart they wouldn’t be thieves.

Excuse me, because it’s a great setting, I’m a sucker for fantasy, and this damn soundtrack pulls me right in -

If they consulted their fanbase Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar wouldn’t have been at the top of the card for several years.

Whoa, okay, hold on Germain. You have mixed up Baby Sinclair’s two catchphrases -“Not the mama!” and “I’m the baby, gotta love me!” Come on.

This review seems to be almost entirely positive, other than the criticism of leaning heavily on flashbacks.

Now this *is* confirmed to be a one-season-and-done miniseries, right? They’re not going to attempt to stretch it into an ongoing series like the Under The Dome disaster?

If they even acknowledge him. This year’s forgot about John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Billy Joe Shaver. Jason Isbell gave up his CMA membership over it.

A friend of mine went on one of those Star Trek cruises, back in the before times, and she said Robert Picardo was delightful. He brought her up on stage at a performance and sang to her.

Aram can be completely excised from the story.

The Carlos Mencia of beers.

Macarons are always the most disappointing dessert. They’re usually brightly colored and look like something from the imaginary feast from Hook but then you eat them and they’re just kinda meh.

Back on the first preorder day I had one in my Best Buy cart alll the way up to having to get Visa confirmation on my credit card, THEN it crapped out. Read more

That is closer, I suppose.

Texan here, it’s our state tree. It’s puh-CON.

Yeah, and later books even have *other* clans of dwarves that were explicitly allies and trading partners with Bruenor’s people, so uh...just ask them maybe?

That is a fine anecdote.

Tommy Doyle was from Halloween. Tommy Jarvis was from Friday the 13th.

And now it occurs to me that a butter crust would also violate kosher laws if you tried to serve it after a meaty dinner. Read more