Dear god. I don't even like cats much, but that was just sickening. Hope they catch that sick bitch.

There was an Around the Corner in Atlanta in the early 80s; I remember the pizza burger as well. Mainly, though, I remember the thrilling novelty of placing one's order via telephone.

Dead Che: No, we haven't learned that at all from this experiment. I've learned something about confirmation bias, though.

Imprecise words are imprecise. Film at 11.

Thanks for that link, TheBob. The author made a beautifully phrased point:

"[The list is] not about how college students think at 18; it's about how we think at 40 and 50 and 60. It's about how we think about the markers we once drove into the ground to mark what we considered Now, and how alarming it is to note that they are farther away than they used to be."

These lists are kind of fun, but a lot of the items are just kind of nonsensical.

"48. Someone has always gotten married in space."

I don't even know what that means. Who got married in space?

And:

"19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone."

I had a corded phone in my home up until 2003 or so (when I got rid of my landline altogether), and I think most offices still use corded phones.

Can't say I blame the LGBT crowd for being a bit sensitive. They're constantly ridiculed and harrassed both verbally and physically, in nearly all corners of the culture, simply because of who they are. While the original post may not have risen to the level of "shocking offense," it certainly displayed a "look at the weirdos" attitude. Perpetuating the theme just reinforces the notion that it's OK to think of them as defective human beings--a notion so widespread that people treat it as a foundational principle of our culture. For example, by posting derogatory articles about them on blogs.

I had no idea that it was possible to be that good at yo-yoing.

"No" isn't Starbucks jargon. Neither is "nothing on it," or "neither butter nor cream cheese." Or "please" or "thank you," for that matter.

Brad: There are 2 decks in the set; that's presumably why the backs are different.

"Weird" isn't a put-down any more than 'remarkable' is.

There's a pejorative connotation to "weird" that's absent from "remarkable."

I thought it was a tapir.

I also noticed the top-to-bottom scroll of "Repo Man." I always thought that was really cool, so I did the same thing at the end of a short film I made earlier this year.

I totally agree, Femmy. Based on what I've read on this page, I'd rather go to a party with the funny-named lady than with Baro.

How many would be enough, Craig?