Except the groupings in gin rummy are all logical and don’t change every year.

@George-K said in Hurricane Ian: [image: 1664816220488-screen-shot-2022-10-03-at-11.56.21-am-copy.jpg] Well, they're kinda right. Served for dinner not came to...

There have definitely been some core "groups" that generally started and stopped about the same time, and I would argue made some of the better seasons of SNL... late 70s, mid-80s, mid-90s, and late 2000s... but there is a larger cast it seems lately, with changes, so it does feel less consistent. I think also SNL faces an insane amount of streaming/alternate pressures that no longer makes it a weekly staple of entertainment that some used to rely on it for. That being said, I watched a little bit of it last weekend for the first time in probably 10 years. Ironic.

Leave it to the video maker to monkey around like that.

The painted on “clothing” has been HUGE with cosplayers at Sci-fi/Comic Book Cons.

Sit down and shut up, you incontinent witch.

Oddball lab fact... In Africa, pretty common not to have a very robust or very competent medical lab testing system, especially in rural areas. Some LFT results should be confirmed by more rigorous methods...HIV being the most prominent. Not in much of Africa. You ping positive on one LFT, the doc will reach for a different manufacturer's kit. You ping positive on that one, and tag you're it. Diagnosis established. I have a friend that travels around the world for the ASCP, trying to institute lab personnel training programs. She has some pretty neat stories...

Was announced this morning that DISH and Disney came to a handshake agreement. Details will be released after the contract is finished.

Hard to snuggle up with a frog, though...

@Klaus said in From postmodern abundance to premodern survival: I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but he seems to be a little late to the party. Look at the books from Charles Murray, Heather McDonald, Andrew Doyle, ... . They've been saying similar things for years. But you see, they required entire books to establish and support their conclusions. Mr. Hanson did it in a few paragraphs. Therefore he is greater. Books? Give me a break… (snort)

That was so cool you had to watch it twice...

KC 41 - Bucs 31. CBS: "KC's offense was (almost literally) unstoppable. Brady was otherwise in MVP form, willing the Bucs back within reach multiple times and threading the needle on some clutch throws to Mike Evans. In the end, their efforts were too little, too late and a little too sloppy, with five penalties also hindering their results." Ah well. You win some, you lose some. I love you still, my Buckies.

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Yeah, Bruce is the shit. I read his autobio and now find myself quoting it often. Unconventionally, a very smart guy.

Climate change. It does that all the time.

@Jolly said in Elvis: All of them said he was a really soft-spoken, nice kid. Thank yuh. Thank yuh ver' much.

@Jolly No . . . I meant that before James Beard and Julia Child, the USA had no standing globally. Those two put the USA on the map. Of course there were important regional influences before their advent, but those were more among Americans than throughout the world.