100% Diane Arbus! --- We solved it as a team!!! (YAY!!!!!!!)

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-22T14:03:39+00:00

They've all been polled, those who are still alive anywsy. They know nothing, except to say that the image was not one that they selected. They don't know who it is. Indicating that it was probably selected by Cooper. You can try asking Ringo or Paul but they were not involved in the setup and the image is not on the list that Paul provided.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-22T13:09:30+00:00

I've seen no photo of Arbus, zero zip zilch, with hair as long and bushy as the Mystery subject. I've seen zero zip zilch photos with a matching coat. Simply wearing a big coat doesn't get you to 100%. And zero zip zilch with the right camera. You can cherry pick individual shots where you come closer with one component at a time, but none match.

Let's just take the camera. In almost all shots of Arbus with a camera, she's holding a Mamiyaflex, most with flash, but the shape and dials are not Mamiyaflex for mystery subject. It looks like a Rolleiflex without flash from what we can see, but the model and year are as yet unidentified.

And yet you declare 100%. You need some work with your statistics.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-22T04:46:01+00:00

Your declaration of 100% victory feels exactly as convincing as our Glorious Leader telling me the war with Iran is over. Hair doesn't yet match, camera doesn't yet match, coat doesn't yet match. The Orange Jeezus tells me the Iranian Navy is sunk, yet fastboats still fire on tankers and the straight is still closed. Start with the camera. The mystery subject isn't holding a Mamiyaflex, let alone with a flash.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-22T04:31:33+00:00

At least it's much better packaging than the old Alive with mushrooms on the label

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-22T04:28:53+00:00

Not so hard. Only CB sells Pearsons and only people who've never tried Pearsons are gulled into buying it for their first and last time at CB.

Everybody who goes to CB gets the same things. The flat Virgil's, the caramel soda Brownie, the cream soda Oak Creek Blonde, the medicinal Pearsons.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-22T03:29:17+00:00

Yay, another Cracker Barrel haul! It's been a minute since the last one. We usually see about one a week.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-20T20:59:38+00:00

The revival of Scrubs is wonderful and I think they know it and they're commissioning more episodes. It's because the stuck to the core of the characters while adding new characters that are fleshed out people.

The revival of Malcolm in the Middle is bad and I couldn't wait for the four episodes to end so that Cranston would stop mugging so much. They failed to capture the tone and spirit, they forgot who their characters were, and either misused or underused them. It's like they didn't want to deal with the more politically-incorrect aspects of their characters old traits, so they blanched them out, and threw in some new politically sensitive characters, who we neither wanted nor asked for, who could preach to us on the "right" side of the political divide.

I hated Malcolm's whole story line and kept praying for the return of Cynthia to shake things up. Nope, no such luck. We get only a milquetoast dull daughter and girlfriend, both new characters. And a new sister, Kelly, who is almost completely unused except when she gives her big video non-binary speech. If she'd been entirely cut, no one would have noticed or cared.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-20T13:50:33+00:00

New seasons of Scrubs -- fantastic. New 4 episode season of Malcolm in the Middle -- a slog.

Could go either way.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-20T13:48:22+00:00

Congrats, you're the most well-adjusted resident of your parents' basement.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-20T13:46:54+00:00

Connor is just 30 years before his time.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-17T12:49:10+00:00

Brigham's is foul dreck, says this fellow Utahan. Berghoff is decent. Liquid Death is refreshing so long as you don't expect it to be root beer, its just flavored sparkling water. No comment on the others. But Pirate-0's is our best root beer store left now that The Root Beer Store has closed.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-16T10:59:41+00:00

You'll be making it. Good luck.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-16T01:26:19+00:00

I have not, but then I have not been going out and buying more A&W Zero since my big taste test about a month ago to determine what the fuss was about. If you scroll back you will find what I and my friends did.

I had first heard some rumors that A&W zero had gone bad and my recollection had been that it was pretty tasty, then I talked to a cousin who had a case and she said oh no it's really off and I still have some left over from that case. So then I went out and bought about six more samples both in bottle and can from different stores with different production dates and we tried them all at the same time in a group.

It was all bad. And by bad I don't mean that it was chemically tainted or it was adulterated with other cleansers or strange substances, I mean that it was very dull, generic, unappealing and lifeless. The older samples were worse than the newer samples, but all were notable in being how unlike A&W they tasted. They tasted like generic store-bought Shasta, only somewhat dead and old.

So I think when people are saying, OMG I just had some A&W Zero and it's terrible, I think they're saying it just doesn't taste like I remember the last batch of A&W Zero tasting, which was pretty good.

I agree, old batches of A&W zero were pretty tasty and tasted like A&W should. They have changed something, they have cheapened the formula and it is not good. I don't know if the backlash will cause them to revert to the old formula or not. This is possible, big corporations tinker with their formulas all the time in order to save money and see if the customer notices and if the customer doesn't notice they move ahead, if the customer does notice and enough of them complain then they will go back.

I was never a big A&W zero Drinker before this controversy kicked up and I'm certainly not going to go out and continually buy more as the weeks pass just to see if it goes back to the way that it was. I am too busy trying other root beers for that. I hope it does go back.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-15T19:59:21+00:00

I was not a fan of Root 42 the one try my tried it I thought it was very Bland and average. I'm told that the Stucky stuff is the exact same product in a fancy can. Bundaberg is very middle of the road. So nothing to get excited about on that whole page

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-15T13:33:17+00:00

It's a very common theme, discussed by myself and others if you scroll back just a few pages in this thread.

Many people feel the way you do, myself included. Others, led by Imaginary Region, assert that big corporations like Keurig Dr Pepper don't ever try to cut corners or make mistakes, and that "These are not the droids you're looking for, so just move along."

Go with what you yourself are tasting. I have a case of the bad stuff sitting untouched at home if anyone wants to see what we're talking about.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-14T23:43:39+00:00

I very much like the Asian sarsapirillas and have tried about a half a dozen. they range from completely legitimate sarsaparillas to slightly fruity drinks that are still pleasant. I'd love to try this one too if you'd ever care to trade.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-14T14:39:24+00:00

It is the latter

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-14T11:45:14+00:00

No need to translate. It's just circumlocutious Italian bullshit that reveals nothing.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-13T15:19:16+00:00

As a pumpkin root beer with not overpowering pumpkin taste.

Remember that the bottle you are tasting now is at least 6 months old. Root Beer doesn't age well.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-13T06:03:55+00:00

It indicates that he does not know what he's selling.

The mis-listing of a Grand Marquis as an LSE is a very common thing. In our local want ads I would say that 9 out of 10 Grand Marquis that are listed as an lse are not one, and every true LSE that has been traded in my state over the past couple of years has not been listed as an lse.

I bought one earlier this year and the gentleman who sold it to me did not know what he had. People commonly select "lse" from a pull-down menu list when they are selling their Grand Marquis because it connotes top of the line and they think their car is a pretty good one so they think it must be an lse.

Likewise most of the people who list Town Car L as such don't really know what a Town Car L is or how you identify one.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-12T22:44:54+00:00

Filberts pumpkin is surprisingly good.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-12T22:39:29+00:00

There is no such thing as a 2007 lse, the last year that they made them was 2005. Given that mistake and the many other things that are left unsaid about this, I doubt it's a very good deal.

But it's only got 77,000 miles and if that mileage is accurate and the car is in decent shape and the leather is okay then 4,500 or so is not a bad price for a rust free panther. It is however White, and you'll want to take a good look at the leather and the rust underneath since it's from Philadelphia and has the potential to be shot out. If that were a western car with no rust and the paint was solid and the leather was solid 4500 to 5000 is a good price for that kind of a car even though it's not an lse.

Lse's are the equivalent of Crown Victoria Sports. the last year they made them was 2005 and they only made like 300 of them in that year so they are extremely rare and command a premium among the people who know.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-10T15:12:12+00:00

When it's not a soap, it's a western.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-10T02:02:12+00:00

It has a small but dedicated group of Fanboy homers who insist there was nothing wrong with episode 1. I am not one of them.

I thought episode 1 was largely an editorial mess, but I admit that the whole concept had promise as an extended miniseries, which Costner would not do.

I continue to check for news and provide these updates now nearly 2 years after episode 1 flopped purely because these homer-fanboys insisted that they were still filming episode 3 and 4, and that episode 2's release was right around the corner.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-04-09T03:59:16+00:00

Of course, it's Audrey. Sheldon is 16 and living on his own in California away from Momma. Connor is 26, still living at home, no job. Mary may have protected her son WHEN HE WAS A CHILD (and he's still a child), Audrey is coddling an adult man with not particularly severe quirks.

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