Skulls are a nice touch.  Wanna get really crazy with the cocktails?  Whiskey stones...

I'm from Chicago.  PLOT TWIST!!

Does anyone else care that the proper term is “card sharp” and not “card shark?” For that matter, do I actually care...?

Yeah... the limb discrepancy thing I believe is a slightly different and less drastic procedure (I’m not a doctor so grain of salt and all that) but the idea is for sure the same. Journal articles like that are SOOO wonky. I’m glad it was a single paragraph.

Your assertion of the leg-breaking being high risk is spot on. The procedure in question was originally developed as a way to “correct” dwarfism. The merits of that probably require examination but I’m not going to judge people’s motivations, in any case. However, unless there have been some advancements I’m not aware…

Definitely some spicy takes, here! I’m not going to expend precious energy defending anything on this list but I will say at least somewhat decent versions of these items do exist.

For the love of God, somebody please bring back Shade Court...

A Moses Moreno reference... nicely done.

God bless Steve Kerr... that is all.

Seuss, Silverstein, and Sendak are indeed fine choices. But not everything else is shit... at least not completely. Dahl had some good stuff as did Sobol.

I just rec’d this whole thread... brilliant.

You don’t say...

What I particularly love about this take is that it’s both blisteringly hot and dead-on accurate... a rare feat, indeed.

God bless David Ross for this and everything else he’s done over 114 wins this season.

Wow! Deep Thoughts by Drew Magary. Honestly, man... that was very poignant. I didn’t know you had it in you.

I lived in the NW for a while, where the entire spectrum of Weinhard’s products is available, and for a long time they produced my favorite root beer. I’m in Texas now and a few years back, I couldn’t believe my eyes when it magically appeared on the shelf of a fucking Kroger, of all places. Or maybe it was…