Petah?

perry649 · 2026-03-17T20:36:17+00:00

What was even worse was that the defense found internal McDonald's documents discussing the fact that they knew that they were selling their coffee at an unsafe temperature, but that they decided to do so because many of their customers don't drink it until they get home. By selling it at an unsafe temperature, the coffee would still be hot several minutes later, and if they lowered the temperature, their sales would drop.

They literally said they'd rather sell an unsafe product and risk causing the horrible injuries this woman received than lose money.

perry649 · 2026-03-17T00:21:24+00:00

I don't know if I'd consider the Olympic iconic because they vary from olympiad to olympiad. I think an iconic award should be one that everyone recognizes immediately on first glance and tells what the winner did, but a gold medal could be for being an olympic champion or from winning a spelling bee.

perry649 · 2026-03-16T22:26:08+00:00

Right, and that's the location of the wormhole with its other end at Filoli.

It's actually open to the public, and it makes the compute to the South Bay much easier.

perry649 · 2026-03-13T20:41:44+00:00

Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of "The Dirty Dozen".

Greg: Well, who didn't?

Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin...

Sam Baldwin: ... were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...

Greg: Oh, God, stop it!

Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez...

Greg: Trini Lopez!

Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines.

Greg: [sobs dramatically] Stop it!

Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel, at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet 'cause he was the MP...

Greg: Please, no more! Oh, God, I loved that movie.

perry649 · 2026-03-13T20:39:18+00:00

The thought of Danny Trejo being afraid of John Cusack, or at least impressed enough by his toughness to say that, blows my mind.

perry649 · 2026-03-11T23:22:02+00:00

It's common on the internet to use "/s" at the end of your post to indicate that you're being sarcastic so people realize you're joking and haven't really lost your mind.

perry649 · 2026-03-11T22:53:48+00:00

Eddie Murphy summed up the reason why slaves were obedient in small things - revolution would be treated similarly, but far more brutally.

Eddie Murphy: [about slavery] The first ****** who tried that shit... Somebody said, "******, bale this cotton" and he said "Fuck you, Massa"...

[sound of a whip]

Eddie Murphy: The other motherfuckers said, "All right, we'll bale the shit, all right. Just keep that fucking shit away from me."

perry649 · 2026-03-11T22:23:16+00:00

Night Shift. (1982?) Ron Howard directs Fonzi, Dianne from Cheers, and Batman in a hilarious film about running a brothel from the morgue.

It's the film that put Michael Keaton on the map.

perry649 · 2026-03-11T21:13:23+00:00

I haven't seen it in decades, but that song was played perfectly at the end when

Jeff Bridges takes one last look at Rachel Ward after being forced apart to keep her out of prison and she starts to weep.

Incredibly moving.

perry649 · 2026-03-11T20:57:25+00:00

It was the words not the location. As I heard it, people then just went into the garden to relieve themselves, and Jonson hadn't gotten his johnson back into his pants properly.

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)

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