Doesn’t Shatner “fail” the inspection of one of the cooks in the intro, and kick him out of the stadium?  I think I have the DVD of these two episodes somewhere...

There was also another later Japanese iteration, where I made one of my best TV comments ever.  One of the contestants made scallop mousse, and the commentator (through translation) said “Scallop mousse?  Scallop mousse?  What will he do?”  I replied, to only my soon-to-be ex wife “He could do the Fandango.”  I hate…

Tom Cruise is speaking to the audience when he says “If you think, you’re dead.”

This... I’m taking a French course, and there was one lesson I failed four days straight because I just couldn’t rote-memorize all of it.  I asked a French speaker, who had to google the conjugation to explain it to me.  I’m nearing a 200 day streak, and don’t feel like I can at all hold a conversation, mostly because…

No.  Sorry, just no... Yes, carbon steel knives are a little fussy, but holy crap, I’m one of the laziest people I know and can spare twenty seconds to wash and dry my knives.

I don’t fly often, but usually just have a small carry-on that goes under the seat in front of me.  Watching how much time is wasted by people spending way too long fussing with the overhead bins drives me nuts.  Then as soon as the plane stops, they stand up, open the bin, and futz with it for ten minutes until it’s…

I think I’ve had this one... It was spicy, for sure, but manageable.  Somehow, the one chip challenge kicked my ass though... I had cramps, sweating, and had to lay in a fetal position for an hour.

Truth be told, I did just visit the Haunted Museum, and looked at all the artifacts in the serial killer room.  There’s morbid gawking, but in this case, there’s nothing more than faces and names.  Not even any real synergy with the beer in the cans.  I mean, at least make the Dahmer beer a slushy sour that has to be…

A young woman in my class couldn’t figure out how to use the emergency brake release while using the emergency brake pedal to slow down.  The instructor was less than helpful as he yelled at her to do it right every time she just pressed the pedal without holding the release.  It went on half a dozen times without the…

This was 1994... The Delta was early eighties, converted from the diesel engine.  I even at the time thought it was more stupid than clever, but it did keep the tapes safe.  I suspect people who knew what they were doing would have just replaced the tape deck.

I bought a Sonic last year, as my wife left and took the only car in the household. It’s not fancy, but I enjoy it. It’s been reliable for the last year (and lived as a rental car for a while) and is shockingly comfortable for highway driving once you get up to speed (which does take a bit of time). Easy enough to do…

I mean, the cutout tapes I paid $.99 for from Musicland were too precious to risk in the factory deck.

I was not mechanically inclined, mind you, but I drove a Delta 88 that had a tape deck.  The tape deck ate tapes, so I velcroed a cassette walkman to the underside of the dash, with a stereo miniplug to cassette adapter- so I would play my tapes in the walkman through the adapter instead of just getting a cheapy…

I was not mechanically inclined, mind you, but I drove a Delta 88 that had a tape deck.  The tape deck ate tapes, so I velcroed a cassette walkman to the underside of the dash, with a stereo miniplug to cassette adapter- so I would play my tapes in the walkman through the adapter instead of just getting a cheapy…

I should probably get some mechanic’s gloves.  I try to use nitrile gloves to keep my hands clean, but they promptly shred to bits whenever I’m within two feet of the engine bay.

I started wrenching way too old, but I’m cheap, so learning.  I also have a girlfriend with a very touchy old Volkswagen, so I’m getting tons of practice.  As of last week, I’m now the proud owner of a set of torque wrenches, which makes me feel very proper instead of “oof... that’s probably tight enough.”  The other…

It still makes me laugh that apparently there was a 20 year reunion for my class (I live halfway across the country now, so did not go).  They set up a FB group for it, and one person showed up where the reunion was meant to be and nobody else was there.  She posted in the group “Where are you guys?  Did I go to the…

That’s fair.  And in full self disclosure, the third was a thing that killed a cyclist friend of mine.  So I definitely came in with some bias there because I resent the decision he made.

That’s fair.  And in full self disclosure, the third was a thing that killed a cyclist friend of mine.  So I definitely came in with some bias there because I resent the decision he made.

I was not assigning fault, just addressing the comment above about what are common accidents.