I wondered about that. I *was* a St. Louis Rams fan. I’m not particularly an *LA* Rams fan. (Certainly not while Kroenke owns them, anyway.)

This is why, one year in college when I gave it up for Lent (with a couple planned exceptions, including St. Pat’s, and one unplanned, the day I got rear-ended), my friend called it “Operation Hawkeye”, after an episode of M*A*S*H, where Hawkeye decides to try and go for a week without booze, almost gives it up near…

Oh man. I went to a convention on a college campus last spring where I was in a wheelchair after breaking a leg. At one point, we were trying to call the elevator, and it would sit there, and sit there... and then the light would come off. After multiple times of this, we finally caught someone on staff, and they…

I’ve mentioned breaking my ankle early last year, not quite this bad, but my foot wasn’t pointing straight.

The deal the Spirits’ owners worked out to keep getting money in perpetuity from the NBA instead of having a team kinda fills me with a perverse civic pride for my old hometown, though.

Yeah, but can you go wrong with one of the other nearby towns, Anutt?

You reminded me of my old auto shop teacher, whose demonstrations of the “correct” disassembly/reassembly process for various engine components would invariably involve him yelling, “Never do this!” and belaboring said rust-caked part with a hammer.

I definitely agree with your advice to Ryan and Greg - the former needs to tell the people in his life “no more Olive Garden, please” and see if there’s a gift card exchange somewhere he can do with those, and the latter needs to chill the F out, and seriously appreciate that if his wife donated it, it was definitely…

In a season/year without A Place Further Than The Universe, Yuru Camp would be my easy AOTS, and a strong contender for AOTY. (In my personal ‘rankings’, it still gets AOTS but only cuz Yorimoi is the AOTY and I don’t allow ‘double dipping’ - or at least, that’s how I rationalize awarding both ;p)

Maybe it’s a biased view, but it seemed like she was elected originally (and btw, she’s a 2-term Senator, not 3) in ‘06 in the anti-W wave there, combined with Michael J. Fox shilling for her and stem cells in MO.

Hell, who *wouldn’t* want to have a ‘personal toilet seat attendant’ if they could afford it?

They look... ridiculous.

My personal ‘best’ is ~98mph in my ‘03 Corolla. Coming home from college one year for Christmas, so, with a bunch of stuff (clothes, maybe my computer?) for several weeks’ of break stuff. On I-44 in MO, so it must’ve been a flatter spot.

I can’t find the right thing to call it, but I keep mine (well, most of them, I’m sure I’ve misplaced various oil change receipts from earlier, but all the stuff I could still find anyway) in a plastic zipper document pouch (a cheap one, not crazy expensive) that I keep under one of the front seats (was running out of…

Up the thruway in Syracuse, with some similarities. But my big thing is too much heat on for tool long, I start feeling nauseated.

Nah, I’m with you. I’d also like the ability to set the zones for Auto (if I can’t?) - like, I want it at Auto 68, fan speed 3, with Defrost + Feet for winter. I dunno, maybe it’s being smarter than me about it, but I can’t tell(?).

Yeah. There was a “McDonald’s Express” nearest me (well, my parents’) that was a small walk-up with outdoor seating and drive thru, and then they opened the store I worked at 2 miles (if that) further down the road. (I was actually hired for that store, and one of the things I treasure from that time is my “OPENING…

Not sure if it’s good or bad for the business model, but McDonald’s also has (or had) corporate-owned stores (the one I worked at in high school and college was one, and there were a few others nearby, although one got sold off to a franchisee during that period). 

Yeah, when it’s no longer SIARPC, with Clarkson doing the interview, it’s just not the same. (For either TGT or New New New Top Gear.)

I miss “toddler pudgy” George. Not that he isn’t cute this way, but... dem pudgy cheeks! is good for my “d’awwwwww”s.