They are spreading it thick with the "manly", and they don't care to respect the history. For example, the image of the oil painting is "Hip, Hip, Hurrah!" by Peder Severin Krøyer, based on a party at the house of two artists who had just moved to the artist colony at Skagen, Denmark. The title says it all - it's not a oratory toast like the article wants.

The picture under "Why We Should Bring Back Toasting" is not from a toast at all. Elsewhere it's titled: "Patrons at a Harlem bar on 135th Street toast joyously after black world heavyweight champion Joe Louis’s first-round knockout of Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium, 1938".

The picture under "verbal souvenir" is of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Multiple sources say it was from the traditional Saturday evening toast in the Navy: "To our sweethearts and wives", with the unofficial response "may they never meet". Again, not a long 'manly' oratory. The British Navy also changed it a few years ago to "Our families", as many women also serve these days.

Personally, I would rather bring back drinking songs.

Given the number of All-Purpose Survival Crackers made, I wasn't that surprised to see they are available on eBay right now. Only 54 years old. Though "The mere smell from the newly opened tin caused coughing fits." and "They basically taste like rancid oil" ... Nah, I won't give them a go.

I thought it was odd when I saw "incandescent light bulb" on the list. Yep, the list is from October 21, 2013 - just before the phase-out really took place.

My first thought, in seeing the Santa on the bottom left, that it would be a bit silly if he were pointing out the sheep. I followed his hand. ... It was a bit silly.

In the British military, a batman is an enlisted man who is a personal servant to an officer. Private Baldrick in Blackadder Goes Forth, is a batman. Which means there could have been a batman from Gotham in WWI.

"Orange Crush", by R.E.M.

This is lifted almost directly from the "trivia" page on IMDB, but with fewer details and at least one introduced error. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2

So the scene from Benson episode "Double Trouble" .. actually occurs. Huh. https://youtu.be/y9XsvKmDPkw?t=490 . That's the one where Benson works with the FBI to investigate bribery in politics, only the person he takes the bribe from is also with the FBI. "Not again." "What to you mean, 'not again'?" "Well this sort of thing happens from time to time. ... "Don't you ever check with your department?" "Don't *you* ever check with your department?"

$1.7 million. Well, I can afford to look at the pictures.

The IMDB trivia page at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv has more details about all of these. For example, some of the ad lib lines were: The Coach's "Shit, we forgot to practice"; Takashi's "salad" comment in the locker room scene; and Gable's "Do you know karate?".

I remember a number of frustrations dealing with the DE-9/DB-9 connector shown there in the middle. Even when used for serial communications, some cables only connect pins 2,3 and 9, while others did the full set of pins, and sometimes you needed to have pins 2 and 3 swapped while for other uses you did not.