Do what the nautical people do, David, and talk in gallons per hour.

Off a ship? No, that’s not crazy. Landing on? Well...

Adm. Joseph “Bull” Reeves? Yeah, those hits to the head severely limited his success in the Navy. Didn’t do much with his career, really, aside from being at the forefront of integrating air power into the Fleet. You know, that thing that really helped the US Navy beat the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.

I’ll let you guess what I already have in my kitchen.

It looks like a nice car to drive around Nice.

Start with the oldest person at the table, then start moving down the age chart.

Every now and then, my brother-in-law will boom out “Heed! Doon!” in his Yes You Asshole I Was Born In Scotland accent.

Would a cheesecloth bag work for the spices? Or stick with the strainer?

...I completely missed that. Though I never was much into Monk in the first place.

I can’t speak for the second two paragraphs, but the first one is definitely true! The only words and phrases I’ve managed to speak with any degree of accuracy are simple Mandarin ones.

My wife and her mother speak to each other in Cantonese. If it weren’t for the English peppered in there I wouldn’t be able to come close to understanding what they’re saying to each other. And that’s after six years of listening, and trying to have my wife teach me.

Prime contention for COTD here folks.

And if $100 million actually cures injustice and discrimination, and 31 white men (the Packers are owned by shareholders) had it to spare all this time and kept it in their pockets, then they should all be stabbed in the throat with a sharpened coat hanger.

Topps holds the rights to Shadowrun. Catalyst licenses it (and BattleTech) from Topps.

Sounds like Illinois. Law’s been on the book for a little while now, but there’s no enforcement of it.

The Trib has it in writing:

I caught it on the radio this morning (WBBM Newsradio).

A chat with some friends from Washington indicated their state is moving in that direction.

I did! His cameo brought The Martian from six actors to seven, on the “List of People In The Martian Who Were In Marvel Movies” list.

There are cleaned-up versions of Sebastian Stan in The Martian (along with six other actors who have shown up in Marvel movies) and Chris Hemsworth in Star Trek. If you’re looking for other takes.