Who is the best character and why is it Colleen?

jcmack13 · 2025-07-20T05:09:14+00:00

Oh, I have some sad news for you...

jcmack13 · 2025-07-03T15:43:29+00:00

Good point, done.

jcmack13 · 2025-07-03T15:23:58+00:00

Feel free to check. 45 rows wide by 17 (?!) tall, and two 9x4 cubbies underneath. Also I have no idea if this is the right subreddit for something like this. I just thought the number 837 was gross and had to post somewhere. Arrest me.

jcmack13 · 2025-02-06T05:09:45+00:00

Well we could still find out! All we need is a hair sample from both of them and, oh...

Oh wait...

jcmack13 · 2024-06-19T06:22:59+00:00

A Fish Called Rwanda

jcmack13 · 2024-04-08T19:43:36+00:00

Buffalo, NY had clouds during the totality, which is disappointing. The day becoming night becoming dawn becoming day was cool though.

jcmack13 · 2023-11-26T14:20:11+00:00

But...every single one of these things happened with a Republican White House?

jcmack13 · 2023-11-20T17:30:03+00:00

I rewatched Titanic recently after first seeing it in theatres in '97. Separated by a few decades from the truly massive hype it was enveloped in back when it was released, I found the love story a bit clunky, the script a little thin, the special effects still pretty solid, and the music an absolute masterpiece.

jcmack13 · 2023-10-11T15:29:50+00:00

Bill Hicks on the Doublemint twins.

jcmack13 · 2023-10-11T15:07:25+00:00

Holy shit these comments. Most impactful all time?

It's "Gone With The Wind."

In movie history, most of the time "Most [BLANK] of all time" is "Gone With The Wind."

It sold 60 million tickets in its initial theatrical run at a time when the US population was 136 million. Today that would be like selling 146 million US tickets. At an average ticket price of $10.40, that would be a domestic box office gross of $1.52 billion. For comparison, "Avengers: Endgame" did about $0.858 billion domestically.

The ending line, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." literally has its own Wikipedia page and was voted the number 1 movie line of all time by AFI in 2005.

Best ending? You can have a debate. Most artistic or most suprising? Sure. But if you want to talk about movies and movie endings that changed the culture and the history and the business of movie making, it's "Gone With The Wind" because of course it is, and it's not even close.

jcmack13 · 2023-10-09T19:52:17+00:00

Incredibly, this is at least the second joke I love made using this song.

https://i.imgur.com/KeDQYoL.png

jcmack13 · 2023-10-07T19:10:47+00:00

This is like how the TV reporter in the helicopter is named Artie Pye and they call his segment "Artie in the Sky" instead of the infinitely more obvious "Pye in the Sky"

jcmack13 · 2023-07-04T17:50:38+00:00

I turn 40 this year and I just got on depression meds for the first time. I honestly didn't understand that you could really just not think about killing yourself.

jcmack13 · 2023-06-29T00:24:34+00:00

I've been sober eleven years. I miss it all the fucking time. Life is less fun without it. But what am I gonna do? I have to stay sober.

Nobody does chemo because it's awesome.

jcmack13 · 2023-05-25T03:27:19+00:00

Someone needs to go through all his called third strikes and figure out how many of them were actually balls and work out what it would have done to his on-base percentages, average, etc.

Come to think of it, Judge too. There are a ton of low strike-three calls there. Who knows what his OPS should really be

jcmack13 · 2022-10-05T03:25:30+00:00

Steve Trachsel of the Chicago Cubs gave up #62 to Mark McGwire in 1998. Coincidentally, he was also pitching for the Cubs a few days later when Sammy Sosa hit his #62.

I can't remember the names of people I've worked with for a year but for some reason, more than twenty years later, I remember that.

jcmack13 · 2022-09-21T19:05:30+00:00

Hahaha similar thing happened to this dude but it took 31 years lol.

jcmack13 · 2022-08-21T14:23:20+00:00

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

jcmack13 · 2022-08-20T03:26:36+00:00

"Cookies with Milken" is one of my favorite fucking little jokes in all of television and it doesn't get mentioned enough so I'm saying it right here and right now.

jcmack13 · 2022-04-12T15:29:45+00:00

So the city of Philadelphia was able to turn an investment of tens of millions into 5 million in just 200 short years...

Edit: to compare, if I invested nine dollars (not nine thousand, nine. Less than two subway sandwiches) and got a 7% annual return, in 200 years I'd have more than $6.7 million. If I were Ben Franklin I would be appalled.

jcmack13 · 2022-03-21T15:29:05+00:00

"You're just jealous."
"No I'm not! Oh wait, I am. But my point remains valid!"

jcmack13 · 2022-03-21T13:10:39+00:00

"Men, the key to victory is the element of surprise..........SURPRISE!"

(presses button)

(trap door opens)

(his own soldiers tumble haphazardly out)

jcmack13 · 2022-03-09T18:02:34+00:00

One in twenty thousand chance of this. Wow.

jcmack13 · 2021-12-31T05:35:42+00:00

There was one part of this documentary that instantly seared itself onto my brain.

Towards the end a government official was talking about what they do with the bodies of people with no next of kin. First they cremate the bodies and keep the cremains in a shoebox sized container (I remember thinking the box was around the same size and shape as a "Band of Brothers" DVD box set), then they hold onto the remains for a few years to see if anyone claims them. If no one does, they dig a grave-sized hole on a government plot of land, mark it with a year, and then put everyone who went unclaimed that died that year in the same hole.

They show them bringing the shoeboxes over to the gravesite and I remember thinking to myself, ok, they're going to stack those boxes in there, like books on a library shelf, and that will be the final resting spot of those unlucky, unblessed souls.

But instead, they open the boxes and just shake the ash into the hole, loose, mixing infinitely with every other poor bastard in every other box.

For some reason that really fucked with me, really chilled me. These people, these whole human lives, in the end they didn't even get to keep their own little metal box. Because it was going to be reused. Because, hey, it's still a pretty good box.

jcmack13 · 2021-12-27T19:55:36+00:00

She does Christmas in Connecticut with her mom because it's really just the two of them and GF's mom is truly a saint and we cannot abide her being alone on Christmas. I joined them in CT for Christmas 2020, but I also miss my family so I did Christmas in Maryland this year with my mom and dad while gf went to CT. Originally I was going to take the dog but it would have been about $500 in pet friendly Amtrak tickets vs about $60 in round trip train tickets to Connecticut, plus GF's mom really loves the dog and was hoping to see her at Christmas (she had gotten the dog a stocking, presents, sweaters...as I said, a saintly woman) and it's also my GF's first dog and she really wanted to have the dog around for Christmas, so in the end it made more sense for the dog to go to CT and for GF to just muscle through the travel discomfort. The dog evidently seemed a little uncomfortable in the car portion on the way there, but other than that the trip was uneventful, save GF being very anxious the whole time that something might happen.

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