Corey Klemow

I admire your tenacity in waiting 47 years now for a renewal.

You really kept your head above water during that exchange, while also making a wave with the somm and the bartender.

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Not really on the thread's topic but I once saw Jill Sobule bring up Lisa Loeb as a guest to duet on a few songs and thought they sounded like a female Simon & Garfunkel. Always wished they'd record an album together after that.

Hopper-Top toy from Burger King

Hopper-Top assembly instructions.

Also, Burger King occasionally sold Hopper-Tops (a rubber-band-launched spinning top) as their toy of the week, back when that was a thing. I loved me a Hopper-Top.

Come to think of it, I think that happened just once, when they served me a burger with everything and I sent it back saying I ordered ketchup only. And that's how they dealt with it. My picky eater single-digit-age ass was never going to McDonald's again after that!

Asking for a burger with ketchup only at McDonald's in the 70s and 80s was likely to get you a burger that had the mustard and pickle desultorily scraped off by an annoyed minimum-wage-earning teenager. You cannot just scrape off mustard and pickle juice. And so Burger King was my childhood fave.

Yes. But also, strong second place:

(Also, I had to make this myself 'cause the full theme isn't anywhere to be found on the youtubes from whence I kyped it years ago. What is the internet coming to!?)

I may or may not have lost consciousness after reading their statement. #itsthelatterinbothcases

To dig into what might be driving these increases, the team examined more than a dozen risk factors, including traditionally recognized ones such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure, as well as “nontraditional” ones. The latter encompassed factors such as psychiatric disorders, nontobacco drug use and low income. Three nontraditional risk factors particularly stood out in young people: chronic kidney disease, nontobacco drug use and lower income.

Sooooooo were any of these "nontraditional" potential causes COVID or are we going to keep pretending that the virus that can cause heart disease in young, healthy folks couldn't possibly be a factor and it's all just a big, impenetrable mystery? (Hint: long COVID disproportionately affects women.)

Also, these days I reflexively Google everything with an "-ai" in the search string and it took me a moment to realize why I wasn't getting any search results.

Had to look up what this was referring to and jesus friggin' christ. Charlie Brooker can pack it in; reality has caught up to Black Mirror.

Poster for THE CAR (1977) starring James Brolin. "IS IT A PHANTOM, A DEMON, OR THE DEVIL HIMSELF? There's nowhere to turn, nowhere to hide, no way to stop... THE CAR."

1950s McDonald's menu with 15 cent hamburgers, 19 cent cheeseburgers, 20 cent milkshakes and 10 cent drinks.

1970s McDonald's menu for the second round of negotiations. 70 cent quarter pounder with cheese, 60 cents without cheese, 65 cent Big Mac, 48 cent Filet-o-Fish, 35 cent shakes, 26 cent fries (46 cent large), 20 cent drinks and so on.

I mean, if we're demanding old menu prices let's go whole hog. Always start negotiations with an ask that's way more than your actual needs so you've got room to compromise.

Had to sell theater tickets to John Landis once, and waves of smugness, arrogance and entitlement just radiated from him. He complained, in a joking-not-joking manner, about the lack of parking. At a tiny, 40-seat second-floor theater. Managed to be creepily unpleasant in a 30-second encounter.

Epic McDonald's commercial 1981 YouTube video by Kevin Noonan

Your order:

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Filet o' Fish
̶Q̶u̶a̶r̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶P̶o̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶
French Fries
̶I̶c̶y̶ ̶C̶o̶k̶e̶
̶T̶h̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶S̶h̶a̶k̶e̶s̶
̶S̶u̶n̶d̶a̶e̶s̶
̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶A̶p̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶P̶i̶e̶s̶

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Old-style yellow-label for a can of Chef Boy*ar*dee Cheese Ravioli in Sauce

The original recipe for this. They changed it while I was in college from what was probably objectively garbage to something way, WAY worse. Just after college I found about 4-6 cans of it at a convenience store, bought them all, and saved them up, slowly eating them over the next couple of years.

I find myself a bit skeptical because I like to use naan for dippins and having to deconstruct the bowl seems like unnecessary extra work. But I would still order this at least once. For science.

Image of butter chicken being poured into a garlic naan bread bowl with the caption "POV: you were one of the first people in the world to try butter chicken served inside a garlic naan bread bowl"

Then plan yourself a trip to the Green Gates Cafe in Glasgow!

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A sequel to "M" in which Hans Beckert is tasked with taking down everyone in the Epstein files... ?

Now With Fifty Ways - Hatpin Slayer The song “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover” has been a source of great pain to many people. The setup is right there in the title. “Fifty ways,” it says.

This seems like a good place for this piece by m'friend @smoakes.bsky.social, which I just happened to have been recently reminded of in my FB memories. (In 45 new rhymes for the song, she uses only one "near" rhyme; good to know it's in the spirit of the original!)

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Though you call for his retirement, I suspect this may be the moment he goes from utility Muppet to a beloved recurring player!

Having looked Satay up (I had assumed that part of the gag was that in this group of Muppets from throughout Muppet history, this one had never been seen before!), kudos not only for his moment here but also to whoever decided to put that little top hat on him.

This has been "Nat's Nate Note," a One Letter Shift production.

Hadn't even heard about this. Glad you're okay!

And here's a weird inverse: I'm from Wilkes-Barre, PA. One of our hometown papers is the result of a 1907 merger between the Wilkes-Barre Times and the Wilkes-Barre Leader, resulting in the hyphen-less (hyphenless?) Times Leader.

Album cover for "Bye Bye Birdie: a captivating jazz interpretation of the musical sore by Bill Potts and his orchestra - Willie Dennis, Billy Costa, Markie Markowitz, Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Milt Hinton, Joe Newman, Ron Odrich, Clark Terry, Sol Gubin & Ernie Royal"

scanning records

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All hail the Garbage Ape, now and forever.

"Business is great," declares the happy proprietor of a store called "Cat Wigs" as several cats, including Heathcliff, walk down the street wearing wigs and contented smiles, while a baffled looking woman and her bemused dog look on from the background.

I have a friend whose ass he grabbed - I think she was a teenager at the time or maybe slightly older, so late 80s or early 90s - and she sure wouldn't have described it as "flirty," then or now.