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...hmmm... Ooh! I know! Those super-fast springed stilt things! Uhh... Hold on, lemme google them... These! Pretty simple, mechanically speaking. I bet I could build some myself. Back fifty-some years ago, the Red Army was experimenting with diesel-powered boots... (No - really.) I remember that. I...

My wife liked it, I didn't care for it much... it had its (few, very few) moments, but overall, I just didn't like the characters. The last episode represents that well, as we see a string of witnesses for the prosecutor relate how poorly they were treated by the main characters: they (the main cas...

GlytchMeister wrote:Jasper looks incredibly unenthusiastic in that pic. I can almost hear the flat, unimpressed "Really, dude?"

I thought, "Yer cooked, Stewie--Brian and Rupert were tools."

The learning never ends.

jwhouk wrote:I still say it's Tepoz' fault...

I hope it is. He's been gone a looong time.

I think the problem with all the systems for teaching is that all of them work for some kids, and none of them work for all kids, and people naturally tend to think that the system that worked for them is the right one.

And then there's Mr. Rogers, who invited small children into his home and started taking off his clothes... ... and they made a TV series out of it... Sure, all he took off was a sweater or jacket... Hey, and what about Romper Room, with Miss Maryjane and that song: "I always do what's right! ...

Dave wrote:Lots of people buy a human-form plushie figure, and then insist on their right to bear arms.

The Game Commission didn't like it much when I tried to insist on my right to arm bears.

I shudder for today's youth when all the rock Gods have gone...and what if anything shall remain to fill the void. Someone will pick it up for them. Every generation goes through this. My parents were 30 and 34 in 1963--and they hated the Beatles. Thought music was dead. Never got rock and roll at ...

My sister was in one of those pipes and drums and baton-twirling outfits as a kid. The part you play the melody on is much like a recorder, but keeping enough air in the bag to run the drone pipes is a real trick. The kids had one or more of them plugged to make it manageable. She wasn't a great pip...

I've heard that since these new extraction techniques glutted the gas market, some deranged barbecuers have got addicted to frack propane smoking.

Nice obit. Mighty daring, bringing music that grew out of the blues back to the South.

I was kinda looking for Lowell George in the Rock and Roll Heaven montage. Oh, Atlanta! Some of us remember who never been there.

Well, when I started all this, I was thinking of sirloin , not Philly cheesesteak--which may be the grandest glory of chipped beef, but is really a whole 'nother thing. :mrgreen: Myself, I've been vegetarian for more than 35 years, but grew up in livestock and hunting culture. We ate lots of game (I...

. . . and it frequently bites them in the butt when the kid figures out it's lies. The kid always figures out it's lies--even when you tell them the truth. :roll: But life is complicated. It's a comedy that (like the news) never changes; it just happens to different people. I have a congenital Y-ch...

I can see adding a splash of water, maybe even seltzer, to a good scotch, to dilute it a bit without changing the flavor. But mixing it? Save the money and stick with Dewar's White Label or similar. My dad used to say that anybody who would fry a steak, you might as well shoot them and put them out ...

GlytchMeister wrote:Atsali's expression in panel three, at least to me, seems like she's going "Ah heh... Heh heh. Heh." All awkward and unsure of herself, looking for all the world she just got clonked in the head with a brick.

"Li'l angel!"

What you are describing is the method for making applejack. Repeated freezing, partial thawing, and re-freezing grows pure ice crystals while concentrating the alcohol in the cider. All it really requires is cold nights and patience. One problem with this method is that it also concentrates the nas...

This morning around 11 AM EST, it was 65 F at my dad's place in the Allegheny Mountains in southwestern Pennsylvania. It's generally one of the coldest regions in the state, ski resort and coalmine country. It was warm and wet all weekend. I expect there were record high temperatures all across the ...

I will merely observe that the person who drove into the painting of a tunnel was driving a Fiat. Just sayin'.

Actually, i suspect the original reference should have been "Goths"... They invaded Rome; the Gauls ... rather the reverse. Possibly the Vandals, who were so destructive their tribal name lives on as a description of wanton destruction. Yep. Disabled damn near every pump in the western em...