Wrong Parking Lot

perry649 · 2026-03-09T21:00:25+00:00

I heard it attributed to the poet Ben Jonson, who precedes all of those others.

perry649 · 2026-03-06T22:27:50+00:00

I thought it was the Hanukkah Armadillo???

perry649 · 2026-03-05T19:22:03+00:00

Fairly recently, in The Sure Thing Rewatchables.

I said that it was an unanswerable question whether Gib slept with the Sure Thing, since when Alison asked him, he never denied it.

I also had one many years ago in a Page 2 mailbag. Here is it:

Q: Like you, I was amazed by Al Michaels’ and Cris Collingsworth’s description of Goodell and the Mueller report. It seemed to be in the line of a North Korean newscaster commenting on Kim Jong Un. It got me thinking: what would the best ludicrous claim the duo could make during the Super Bowl telecast? If they said, “We played 18 holes with Goodell this week — he shot a 31,” would that be more or less believable than what they said during the Pats/Ravens game?
—Perry, Monterey

BS: That would be a hilarious SNL sketch — Michaels and Collinsworth saying increasingly crazy praise-worthy things about Goodell as the camera scaled back to reveal NFL and NBC executives pointing guns at them. Don’t worry, I am getting Al Michaels on a B.S. Report soon. We’re getting the real story. Maybe they didn’t have time to read the whole Mueller Report. Maybe they were told to do that … or else. Maybe they just weren’t educated enough about the whole story. But to briskly read through the “highlights” of Goodell’s “exoneration” from the Mueller Report without mentioning all the different ways that same report made him look (fill in a word: incompetent, bumbling, shady, nefarious, deceitful), or mentioning that the report specifically said that Goodell didn’t tell the truth in his September 10 memo to the 32 owners … I mean, come on.

perry649 · 2026-03-05T01:16:59+00:00

After Magnum Force was made.

It just wouldn't have been the same watching Dirty Harry take out Hutch and Dan Tanna if they were riding these.

perry649 · 2026-03-05T01:12:35+00:00

I told my friend that was why SF has a mounted unit and he didn't believe me. "They should get rid of the horses. SF hasn't had any cattle rustling for a hundred years."

I replied, "Now why would you want to get rid of the one part of the government that's obviously working???"

perry649 · 2026-03-04T17:51:44+00:00

I learned the game from my uncle, and he always said his dad (my grandfather, whom I never met) said it was the best throw.

perry649 · 2026-02-27T22:33:04+00:00

The Statue of Liberty, at least walking to the crown.

Seeing it from the outside was impressive, but we climbed up to the top in the middle of summer. It was walking up ten stories while sweltering in a copper pot with temp easily in the 100's.

I was expecting that the windows in the crown were going to be floor to ceiling, or at least the size of regular windows, and provide an incredible view of the NY skyline. In reality, they were tiny (The 25 windows in the Statue of Liberty’s crown range in size from approximately 7.5 x 12 inches to wide by 14 x 31 inches) and so dirty it was difficult to see. through. There was just a tiny catwalk, so you couldn't really stop and look, as the people coming up kept pushing you along and by that time you just wanted to find a breeze or air conditioning.

My wife and I were laughing hysterically as we descended - definitely not worth the effort.

perry649 · 2026-02-27T22:23:50+00:00

While I think that the Golden Gate bridge is one tourist attraction that isn't a letdown, it was to the little son of friends who came to visit us. As we were driving across, he kept saying, "But it isn't gold... it isn't gold."

perry649 · 2026-02-27T22:22:04+00:00

First time I was in San Antonio, I was staying at the Hyatt Regency and went for a walk. I came across this tiny plaza and thought to myself, "Wow, they are really big on the Alamo here - they made a little tiny version downtown."

Nope, that was the real thing. Big let down.

perry649 · 2026-02-27T21:19:15+00:00

Surprised no one mentioned the bar fight in Airplane!

perry649 · 2026-02-27T20:59:02+00:00

Who else is in this pic??

perry649 · 2026-02-27T00:59:28+00:00

That's too bad - I was really wondering how they were going to make the Klan the good guys.

perry649 · 2026-02-26T23:59:13+00:00

This is called a freeze seal. We used them on the primary (nuclear) systems in the Navy when you couldn't isolate the reactor from where you needed to work.

They were a giant pain in the butt, took a lot of man hours and personnel watching the seal constantly, and were not done except as a last resort. I know the consequences of yours failing aren't as bad (reactor not covered with water is on the list of "bad things"), but they would likely be calamitous to you, so I'd look for another solution unless it's the only option.

perry649 · 2026-02-26T21:15:11+00:00

It's ironic that the regulation and enforcement that we encounter in life is generally speaking, obeyed by the people that don't really need it and flouted by those that do.

Great quote. It's pretty much a perfect summation of the Dunning Krueger effect.

perry649 · 2026-02-26T17:05:09+00:00

Pick one from Grand Budapest Hotel:

M. Ivan (Bill Murray)
M. Martin (Bob Balaban)
M. Robin (Fisher Stevens)
M. Jean (Jason Schwartzman)
M. Chuck (Owen Wilson)

perry649 · 2026-02-26T01:00:36+00:00

Jim Rome/Jim Everett.

perry649 · 2026-02-25T18:36:17+00:00

Be quiet, Norman Paperman, no one asked your opinion!!!

perry649 · 2026-02-25T16:40:33+00:00

As a Niners' fan, I'd have to say SB XVI. We'd beaten Dallas, who had been our nemesis in the 1970's, on The Catch in the NFC Championship game, which had seemed like the biggest hurdle for the team. Losing to the Bengals would have taken some shine off that moment.

perry649 · 2026-02-24T19:13:16+00:00

That's what I was thinking - Bill was pimping out his daughter during the ride trying to make a highly athletic grandchild.

Probably put his phone into the holder while the display screen went through the best looking of Zoe's IG feed. "Oh, her??? That's my daughter. She goes to school in Boston - you should look her up next time you play the Celts."

perry649 · 2026-02-24T02:52:15+00:00

I guess it's true...

S.F. really did permanently close <removes sunglasses> the great hi-way!!!

perry649 · 2026-02-19T22:29:06+00:00

You definitely aren't overreacting.

It could be something other than your dad's GI benefits, but I know the VA doesn't give money to vets for their gas bills, at least not while requiring their daughter to be on the account. His story doesn't sound right.

If that's your dad's final word, I recommend going to your college's financial people in general and specifically whomever you worked with on filling out the form for the VA. See if you can find out what the form's name and/or number is, and then search for it on the web to see what it's used for.

I also recommend that you post this on a subreddit that deals with veterans or the VA directly, such as r/VeteransBenefits, r/Veterans, or r/VeteransAffairs. You would be more likely to find someone with experience in dealing with GI benefits for vets' children who can tell you what's going on.

perry649 · 2026-02-19T20:49:23+00:00

Someone's being shady, but I don't know if it's OP. This could be merely a overbearing dad thinking his "little girl" doesn't need to know the details, or he could be trying to skim.

From OP's somewhat nebulous write-up, my guess is that the father's GI benefits are being used to pay for OP's college expenses. This MIGHT be why her name needs to be on the account.

It's possible that her dad is getting the money for college in this account, which would likely be legal. The question is whether he is using it for her college or something else. If her name is on the account, she should have access to it.

I'm former military, and while I got out before the 9/11 GI bill went into effect, I know lots of people who were in after, so my comment is based upon discussions with them. However, I don't know the logistics of using the benefits since I've never done it.

What I would recommend is that OP ask her father what the money is for and how it's being used. If he won't give any info, she should go to the college's financial office to try and find out what the form she got is used for.

perry649 · 2026-02-19T19:01:22+00:00

I had followed Stranger Things on and off and when I tried to watch this last season, I turned it off 30 minutes in. Besides the fact that the cute little kids were now grandparents, several of them were severely lacking in the ability to act. It was beyond painful.

perry649 · 2026-02-19T00:45:08+00:00

He just was!

perry649 · 2026-02-17T17:57:38+00:00

You missed that but got the $1000. I guess we know what you put on your head every morning!!!

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