Whenever I hear something like this, I think of a couple of lines from the very awesome "Box Set" by the Barenaked Ladies:

Disc One - it's where we begun;
it's all our greatest hits;
and if you are a fan then you know that you've already got 'em.
....
Disc Four - Never released before;
and you can tell why;
it's just some demos I recorded in my basement.
....
Disc Six - A dance remix;
so I can catch the latest trend;
and it'll make you scratch your head and wonder
where my taste went.

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That was a great song, poking fun at box sets and re-releases, and released at a time when I was buying box sets I could barely afford. That song probably saved me a couple hundred dollars when I was a teenager, because it made me think about what kind of value I was really getting from these releases.

Well I haven't had a flu in about 6 years, and only a couple of very minor colds. I've only had one flu shot in that time.

I work in an office of only four people, and I stay active outdoors through the winter. I'm not exactly in top physical shape, I'm just an avid yet casual (non-competitive) skier.

I always assumed that I avoided colds and flus because I'm not in a closed space with a lot of people, and because I try to make sure I'm getting a good balanced diet with vegetables in the winter instead of the heavier, high protein and carb diets that some people tend to have in the winter.

But that's not scientific, it's just personal observation. Could be just lucky. My wife has already had the really bad cold going around here, but it passed me by.

But now that I've said that, I'll expect to get sick this week!

@NightChicken Yes, the rural accent around London (Ontario) trends into midwestern US pronunciation on certain words. It's not that it's a "neutral" accent (no such thing) it's just that the Americans can't spot it very easily. They think it's Minnesota. You know how fidgety they get when they find out we're handling their financial transactions and blackberry messages.

Star Wars with a laugh track is just about as awful as I expected! Ever notice how the less funny the show is, the more frequent the canned laughter? With that in mind, it's totally appropriate on this Star Wars clip!

I'd love to see regular shows WITHOUT a laugh track, but not just every now and then; all the time. I might watch them more!

Gad, I hate laugh tracks.

But you said crossing the streams would be bad!

No Prob, sorry I can't help you with the On/off buttons. They aren't on any of the Mac or PC keyboards sitting around my office, and we have a pretty good 15-yr range of both.

Pause is a DOS thing, not a Mac thing.

When you're in DOS, and you type in a commend like DIR that generates a list of items that is longer than the screen, it sort of madly generates the list too fast to read. The Pause button would stop the list so you could read it.

No idea why I remember DOS.

A sense of humour about posting videos that can't be viewed?
it's not really a sense of humour kind of issue, it's just kind of annoying.

Tiger Woods is a celebrity? I thought he was just a golfer

I can't believe you guys let things get to the point where people have to leave their country to find affordable medical care. You need a proper health care system that isn't run by insurance companies.

As far as I'm concerned, in this day and age, universal health care is a basic right along with clean water, freedom of speech and voting for your leaders.

When I hear of Americans who are against it, it always reminds me of people in places like Afghanistan who try to interfere with elections. You want to ask them why they want to deny themselves this basic right, but you're afraid they might try to bite you.

Yeah, you need the rickrolling and stuff like that to pepper the news with comic relief, but it could have been so much more interesting if it wasnt' so US-Centric.

But then, what do you expect?

It probably has more to do with the fact that any married man on television is portrayed as a socially stunted baboon who is one brain cell away from microwaving the cat.

From commercials to sitcoms, it has become fashionable and funny to make fun of men who would simply subsist on chips and beer if their highly competent wives didn't appear and rescue them at the last second with a well-thought out meal solution or cut them down with a clever zinger.

My wife and I both work full time; I handle more than half the work, because she has a funny shift rotation. We don't publicly deride each other for not pulling our weight. And I find it insulting when other people try to characterize their husbands as incompetent or useless, especially when I know the husband and I know he's intelligent and capable.

I wouldn't dream of speaking about women the way I hear some women talking about men.

No, from what I've read, White Castle avoided using the term Slider for many decades but eventually decided to go with it because their customers kept using the term. So they trademarked "Slyder"

Not that I go to White Castle, I live in the wrong country, for one thing, and on those occasions when I have gone, I've been unimpressed. It's not really very good, is it?

Ooooohhh, is this why several generations of Americans think that the North Pole is in Alaska and Santa is American?

They're listing words that the Simpsons introduced into the vernacular and the best they can do is Doh and Eat my Shorts?

First of all, Eat My Shorts goes back WAY before the Breakfast Club. Second of all, there are so many phrases I hear every day that link back to a Simpsons episode, "Eat My Shorts" is probably the least common, and least intelligent of the group!