I think if the manager had offered a $200 gift card the woman would have taken it. $50 is just a standard “Here, take this and shut up” gift card value.  $100 is getting there, but $200 would say, “Okay, at least they have some sense of the magnitude to which I was wronged.”

Right, but does it make them different species?

Are Mandalorians really a separate species?  They’re just humans, right?

And while we’re at it, bring back Family Mart. I think it was owned by A&P originally, a huge grocery store with a big toy section, a healthy book section, and the largest, most comprehensive magazine section I’ve ever seen. I still have the first edition Forrest Gump I got off the bargain shelf there, and I remember…

Whiners: George Lucas did not ruin your childhoods, he made them awesome. He ruined your *adulthoods*, but you really did all the heavy lifting.

Yep.  And poring through the giant size Service Merchandise catalog that came in the mail once a year was an anxiously awaited event.

I’m still waiting for Service Merchandise to rise from the ashes.

Yep, two Toys ‘R’ Us’es near me were next to vacant storefronts, one previously occupied by a Borders and the other a Barnes & Noble.

“Pigeons seem to like the sound of my GAACK!”

Let us not forget his greatest legacy: Serving as the inspiration for the Duke Phillips character played by Charles Napier on The Critic.

They did something similar on an episode of Mama’s Family called “Rashomama.”  I am not making this up.

Loved that one.  She seemed completely charmed by him, and his playful flirting with her was funny.

You don’t remember because it doesn’t really matter. I didn’t agree with it, although I can understand his thinking from a certain point of view. It’s just not the sort of thing you say in public given the current climate. But I don’t watch Norm for political correctness or decorum, I watch him for his affable nature…

Neither does Norm.

So, anybody watching Norm Macdonald Has a Show? I’ve seen six episodes so far, and they’ve all been enjoyable. Chevy Chase was the guest on the last one I watched, and he was actually pretty nice. Prickly and smartass, because that’s his persona, but winkingly so. 

We have a lot in common, you and I.  Too much. Too much in common.

That’s supposed to be “Davis,” obviously.  I’m on my phone and I’m old enough to almost need reading glasses.

Well, no, and if you were Ricky Gervais, in that joke Warwick David would have tried to climb up on the bar and then fallen off in the most embarrassing way possible.

Now we all know you’re secretly Ricky Gervais.

That reminds me of Charade when Audrey Hepburn took a cigarette from Walter Matthau, she ripped the filter off before she lit it and said, “I hate those things, it’s like drinking coffee through a veil.” Like, damn, Audrey Hepburn was HARDCORE.