The magic years when the same movie won all three categories for that year are 2003 (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), 1961 (West Side Story) and 1957 (Bridge on the River Kwai). I haven't seen any of the three movies for my birth year of 1970.
A minor correction to "Nothing at all was there before the laboratory". There was a private boy's school, the Los Alamos Ranch School, described in the text as "the US government took over a local school".
"Far Out Space Nuts" (1975), "While loading food into various compartments to prepare a rocket for an upcoming mission, Barney instructs Junior to hit the "lunch" button, but Junior mistakenly hits the "launch" button." https://youtu.be/SgvYgobd17w?t=13
Great, now we've got 4channer-wannabes stinking up the joint. On the one hand, there's a white supremacist who wants all of the refugees to rape the girl scout. While on the other hand there's a teenager who just been given dripping turd combining misogyny and anti-immigrant lies about refugee rapists into a single sentence. How many teenagers do you know who could respond to lies and hatred on the fly and not have their response deliberately distorted by the likes of you? Because I saw how you changed "if something happens to me", should the Nazi's disgusting fantasy come true, into some sort of condoning of all rape. So, great on you for calling out the scout for not being perfect. You win one internet point.
Things kids can't get away with now: sprinting in the halls, smoking in the boy's room, OJ+spirits (legal at 18 then), clothing not allowed under many present-day dress codes. Did I miss anything?
Many of these arguments seem petty. Yes, if the water isn't drunk then that it goes to waste, as does the water needed to wash it. That gallon of water costs less than a penny. But the spoon I don't use is also wasting water - why not make utensils available on request only?
To give an idea of how small 1 gallon is in regards to the meal, it takes over 100 gallons just to make the meat in a quarter pounder. I also can't help note that this is a conservation method which is based on guilting the customer, and costs the restaurant almost nothing. Is the restaurateur also switching to low-flow toilets, upgrading to more water efficient dish washer, and so on?
The "Bitchy Waiter" comment about not making tips for tap water sounds like another reason to get rid of tipping. The cost of water is part of the cost of doing business. The waiter also doesn't make extra tips for bringing an extra fork, should the one I use fall on the floor, nor bringing an extra napkin.
For what it's worth, here in Sweden, tap water is free at most restaurants, delicious, and used by the locals. At cafes and other places without wait staff, there's usually a stack of glasses and a pour spout or pitcher for you to pour (and top up) yourself. I think that's the practice across the Nordic countries.
#17, if it's a brownie or cake then that last piece will be cut in half several times, always leaving something. #16 was not written by an engineer, scientist, or other people who live by graphs. Their audience is more likely to wrinkle their brows as they try to figure out it. #13, after years of marriage and a kid? Nope. #12 would be my bookcase as nearly all the movies I watch are online. #9, "#notallmen", plus, prime source of comedy material for decades, #2 they are aliens who have been deceived by Earthlings, see https://youtu.be/g3WtvzmKCQQ?t=92 .
Loved the horns, and that chuck is a thing of beauty. Far better than what my g'pa had for his lathe when I was a kid. Watching this I can virtually feel the wood shavings on my arm hair.
Here are my problems with the story. Instead of using one match, are the soldiers supposed to use two? Wouldn't the double light-up be more obvious to a sniper? How are four or more soldiers supposed to light up, without one losing his head? Also, does this practice extend to lighters or is it only matches? If this were an effective practice against night-time snipers, shouldn't the guideline be more like "no flames for more than 5 seconds out of each minute", or however long it takes for a sniper to lose aim?
I feel more like it's a retro-fitting of a plausible mechanism onto a superstition, rather than an explanation of how it came to be. Nearly all of the WWI accounts I found about this practice considered it a common superstition, not an anti-sniper rule-of-thumb.
I just did a text search for "three cigarettes" and "match" at archive.org. I can confirm that the references to this practice didn't start until WWI and with soldiers. However, almost all of the WWI accounts refer to it as a wide-spread superstition and not an anti-sniper practice. For some examples: "Ladies from Hell" (1918) p73 referring to the Battle for Lille in 1914 has "The older men recounted many of the ancient trench superstitions — how it is bad luck to light three cigarettes with the same match."; "Runaway Russia" (1918) p77 describes British soldiers at the Hotel Astoria trying to defuse a situation with the Russian revolutionaries in 1917, "Lieutenant Urmston lighted a match, held it to the general's cigarette, then to the soldier's, and then blew it out, explaining to the soldier that it was bad luck to light three cigarettes with one match. That appealed to the soldier, who, like all Russians, was very superstitious.".
The most interesting is "Money Box" (1927, 2nd ed.) concerning the history of this very practice! Page 92: "Then there is a wide-spread disagreement about the validity even of some of the most popular superstitions. Most of us, for instance, regard it as unlucky to light three cigarettes from one match. There is a vigorous minority, however, which protests that this is not a genuine superstition, but that it was put about during recent years by a leading firm of manufacturers of matches. Others declare that it originated during the Boer War, when it was noticed that, if a match was kept alive long enough to light three cigarettes, a Boer sniper frequently fired at the light and shot one of the three smokers. These rationalists admit that the superstition is valid enough in time of war, but deny that it has any force in time of peace. This is an example of the sort of difficulty that an Academy of Superstitions ought to be able to clear up once and for all."
Get rid of tipping. Raise minimum wage, or strengthen unionization and allow effective collective bargaining. Tipping is such a minefield. I hate lists like these because I feel like either I'm going to get it wrong and either be yelled at and secretly mistreated in the future, or overtip and thus contribute to the evil that is "optional required tipping". I nearly always pick up food because I get nervous about tipping. Just charge me a clear delivery fee up front. Hotels are worse - the more expensive the hotel, the more confused I get about what I am "supposed" to do. I never knew that people tipped the room cleaner until I was in my 20s. I don't even want to think about taking most cruise holidays with all of its mysterious "recommended" and "customary" tipping practices. I moved to Sweden, where there are no tipped employees and tipping is rare. (Effective unionization means about $14/hour minimum wage + state health care and retirement even without a minimum wage law.) Service is as good as in the US, my confusion level has dropped, and I don't have this odd social imbalance where I'm paying "the help" who are beneath me - do you tip your doctor?
That was enjoyable, and I forgot how fast paced that show was. I liked Price's attempt to cheat, and Dawson's followup to make it happen. Shafer did a great job of getting a full sweep of the last round. I am curious about the first round - old movies show people buying insurance before going on the plane, and that was the #1 answer here. Whatever happened to that?
Tantalizing, but no data given. I cross-checked with http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/redshirt_deaths.htm , which reports 8 yellow/gold shirt and 26 red shirt deaths, compared to the 10 and 25 reported at this link. Where do the differences come from? Was Commodore Decker (of the Constellation, in The Doomsday Machine) included by mistake? Also, that Ex Astris Scientia link points out that in season 1 some of the yellow/gold shirts were effectively acting as security officers (Sturgeon and Green in "The Man Trap", Lang in "Arena") and that "it is possible that the red color for this department was not yet set in stone at the time".
To give an idea of how small 1 gallon is in regards to the meal, it takes over 100 gallons just to make the meat in a quarter pounder. I also can't help note that this is a conservation method which is based on guilting the customer, and costs the restaurant almost nothing. Is the restaurateur also switching to low-flow toilets, upgrading to more water efficient dish washer, and so on?
The "Bitchy Waiter" comment about not making tips for tap water sounds like another reason to get rid of tipping. The cost of water is part of the cost of doing business. The waiter also doesn't make extra tips for bringing an extra fork, should the one I use fall on the floor, nor bringing an extra napkin.
Nor is the glass of water at the table a result of Prohibition. https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/2010/09/06/that-glass-of-water/ points out that it was common practice in the US well before Prohibition, though there is a connection to earlier temperance movements.
For what it's worth, here in Sweden, tap water is free at most restaurants, delicious, and used by the locals. At cafes and other places without wait staff, there's usually a stack of glasses and a pour spout or pitcher for you to pour (and top up) yourself. I think that's the practice across the Nordic countries.
I feel more like it's a retro-fitting of a plausible mechanism onto a superstition, rather than an explanation of how it came to be. Nearly all of the WWI accounts I found about this practice considered it a common superstition, not an anti-sniper rule-of-thumb.
The most interesting is "Money Box" (1927, 2nd ed.) concerning the history of this very practice! Page 92: "Then there is a wide-spread disagreement about the validity even of some of the most popular superstitions. Most of us, for instance, regard it as unlucky to light three cigarettes from one match. There is a vigorous minority, however, which protests that this is not a genuine superstition, but that
it was put about during recent years by a leading firm of manufacturers of matches. Others declare that it originated during the Boer War, when it was noticed that, if a match was kept alive long enough to light three cigarettes, a Boer sniper frequently fired at the light and shot one of the three smokers. These rationalists admit that the superstition is valid enough in time of war, but deny that it has any force in time of peace. This is an example of the sort of difficulty that an Academy of Superstitions ought to be able to clear up once and for all."