“modern era soldiers and bomber planes raiding their city protected by colonial era Riflemen and cannons.”

I usually waited until the first time the Senate tried to stop me from picking a fight with the superpower next door, then made the switch. Hitting the Revolution button was a lot more satisfying that way.

991122 could be November 22, 1999, the 36th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. Trump just released a bunch of files on JFK’s assassination.

Are we at the point where “retro” social networks can make a comeback for nostalgia’s sake? There’s probably some guy still sitting on the Friendster url and praying like hell for his big 2nd chance.

He is awfully skinny for a guy named Cannonball.

He’s nigh invulnerable when eatin burgers at the malt shoppe!

Wow, I forgot that was him. Strangely, I saw Gerard Butler play Attila the Hun in a TV movie around this time, and so he has somehow been permanently imprinted in my brain as “that guy from Attila”.

Never underestimate the curiosity of genealogists. I doubt if she’s planning to actually contact any of them, but wanting to know where her ancestors’ slaves’ families ended up is not at all surprising.

“Profanity is a crutch for the ignorant motherfucker”
—my grandfather.

Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

This is madness. A woman from the 1950s flying a plane?!?

Thanks! None of us AVC-ers ever thought we’d be nostalgic for the olden days of Disqus, but life is full of surprises.

Yeah, I didn’t expect the spoiler tag would work, but wanted to see what would happen. I put another comment below that, saying as much, but who knows where it went.

<spoiler>didn’t think so, but worth a try.</spoiler>

Congrats on the new job. Mine isn’t “new” at this point (since January), but it’s going fairly well. Trying to get the hang of everything, still, but I like it.

But without all those secondary characters, how could he run up the senseless violence body count?

And Rocky Five... THOUSAND

Yeah, I’m torn between my annoyance at Kinja and the sad realization of how much I can get done if I spent less time on these threads.

Yo.

Things like Dinosaur Neil or, say, Chairface Chippendale vandalizing the moon are part of why I personally think the animated version will always be the best. It’s hard to be appropriately ridiculous and weird on a live-action tv budget.