The Jack In The Box closest to me has a Coke Freestyle offering, but trying to order even a lime flavored Coke in the drive-thru can be an exercise in frustration.

I didn’t realize that Giordano’s was a chain now, but I haven’t been to Chicago since 1985. A few things might have changed since the days when baby me was hopping the train from the North Chicago Navy base down to the big city. 

Fully agree with Johnson here. “Any Old Port In A Storm” is brilliant. The final scene is wonderful. You haven’t quite captured the plot, though, as Pleasence kills his brother because he’s going to sell the family winery. Columbo and Pleasance’s character actually start to respect each other by the end which is…

According to this, almost nobody lives in some of the tallest high rises.

No smells in the luxury high rises. Each unit spans a floor (or two).

He was a close friend of Julia Child and that’s says it all.

I remember Slice, but not Teem. I guess back in those days if I wanted a lemon-lime soda I would just go with an uncola.

“We’re coming from an irrational time of overspending with limited focus on return on investment,” Wiedenfels says, adding that 2023 is about “relaunching and building.”

Not every show needs a season long overarching plot. On procedurals like this it’s usually some tacked on, tired conspiracy plot or a lame supposedly “boss level” baddie that takes time away from character development and making an actually interesting main plot.

Once again “searched for” ≠ “popular” . When will this crap ever stop? 

The news isn’t that he can’t get a show now, given what he has shown himself to be, but that somehow his snake oil pushing show stayed on the air for 13 seasons. What a quack.

“The tragedy of the case is that Ms. Holmes is brilliant,”

How do you define “offroad”? Nobody is taking it to Moab, but plenty of people take these things up to the mountains via unmaintained two tracks.

Back in the days when I had to deposit an actual physical paycheck, the nearest place to do so was inside a Safeway so I’d do the deposit and have some of the spicy Gen. Tso’s chicken. Fairly tasty, for the price. I have no idea how it is now after Albertsons gobbled them up.

You should really edit that headline since the Merchant Marines and the U.S. Marine Corp. are two different things with the latter usually being referred to as “Marines”.

The retail style u-pick apple orchards get overrun during picking season around here so I’ll probably have to go without unless I can talk someone in to going up there mid-week. The last time I tried to spend a calm relaxing fall day picking apples I sat in traffic for an hour. 

It’s not a unique situation. Carl’s Jr. and Hardees are similar. 

The commercial huckleberry pickers have a reputation of using devices that destroy the bush while stripping the berries so I’m not a big fan of big corporations using huckleberries, besides they usually just throw in some tiny pieces and call it good. Dealing with the terrain, biting flies, mosquitos, and underbrush…

While we don’t go to O’ahu, the only we’ve ever had is being stuck in a vehicle that we didn’t want. We went to the Big Island not long after Hawaii opened for tourists again in Feb. 2021 and got put in a Tahoe which was nice but too big, and we went to Maui in February this year and got Rogue which is a Nissan and…

Money laundering in racing? I’ve never heard such an outrage!