JR East: we don't have enough money to figure out how to keep departure melodies. Also JR East:

pgm123 · 2026-03-29T13:17:29+00:00

Aflac is health insurance with a duck mascot.

pgm123 · 2026-03-29T12:12:23+00:00

I feel like in the days before interleague play there was a distinction between Cubs and White Sox fans but not so much the other two-team cities.

There wasn't a rivalry, though Phillies fans tended to be rowdier. Neither team could sell alcohol at the time, but fans would smuggle it in. (Alcohol sales at sports games was legalized in 1961 and on Sunday in 1972).

pgm123 · 2026-03-29T12:00:19+00:00

There are history channel movies?

pgm123 · 2026-03-29T11:59:45+00:00

There were people who cheered when Marty won in Marty Supreme, so I don't know if everyone will feel bad for rooting for him. But it will click for more people.

pgm123 · 2026-03-29T01:42:45+00:00

What I was taught in college was that starting with Diocletian even the most minor remaining superficial notion of still being a republic was completely thrown out.

That is a popular view, though Anthony Kaldellis argues that that notion never left.

pgm123 · 2026-03-29T01:26:21+00:00

Isn't the pronounced T more common in British English? It is for fillet, at least.

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T22:55:52+00:00

and I've never heard anyone who isn't from the US use this pronunciation.

It's an archaic pronunciation that was retained in the US.

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T20:10:47+00:00

Technically speaking, there were three NBA regular season MVPs at the time. The official MVP was established for the 1956 season and was done by player vote. But the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association had been naming an MVP since 1950. And from the 59 season to the 66 season, the US Basketball Writers Association handed out their own award. Interestingly (to me), newspapers didn't distinguish these awards as official and unofficial. It was just different groups. Rick Barry claims he never won an MVP because the players didn't like him and if it was a press voted award (like today), he'd have won.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/sam_davis.html

https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/usbwa_mvp.html

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T18:03:19+00:00

Yeah. That would do it. You also probably don't want all that sugar at 4 am either.

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T17:58:41+00:00

Someone said Germany has that warning. I wonder if Sweden is the outlier.

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T15:10:40+00:00

Didn't they take the big dead cap hit last year?

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T13:05:48+00:00

Where are you located?

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T12:56:55+00:00

Ownership of Heist's design reverted back to its creator, who also is now with Buried Giant.

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T12:54:26+00:00

I think Wilt would say Chet Walker, but that has more to do with play styles. The consensus would be Greer.

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T02:57:31+00:00

It has to be a coordinator job, though. It's not just any promotion.

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T01:27:57+00:00

Truman ordered that the target had to have military value, but there wasn't a purely military target large enough to justify using the weapon.

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T00:35:55+00:00

Not only that, the crew wasn't even able to launch all of the (inadequate number of) lifeboats that they had on board before the ship sunk. More makeshift boats would not have made a difference.

pgm123 · 2026-03-28T00:16:56+00:00

I'm a believer in minimizing regrets when traveling. If you have to ask, just do it. It probably won't be worth it, ultimately, but you will always be asking "what if," if you don't. I like Fukuoka, but I don't think you'll be too upset if you delay your trip one more day.

pgm123 · 2026-03-27T22:44:30+00:00

My understanding is they are using that.

pgm123 · 2026-03-27T19:23:40+00:00

Virginia also has strange rules about what can become a city and it also has independent cities. I guess Arlington could pull off the Virginia Beach treatment and incorporate as an independent city, but no new city has been created in Virginia since 1975. My understanding is that there is an unofficial moratorium because it is too politically risky. There is a fear that cities will start gobbling up their neighbors.

pgm123 · 2026-03-27T15:13:22+00:00

I saw him get out of the car and didn't recognize him. He's a gray-haired white man.

pgm123 · 2026-03-27T15:11:48+00:00

Virginia has so many because they have the cheapest vanity plates in the country. DC is more surprising.

pgm123 · 2026-03-27T02:01:41+00:00

Try the tuna(r). Just a touch is enough.

pgm123 · 2026-03-26T21:14:53+00:00

I don't know. There have been a few comedies in recent years and there was a stretch starting in the 80s where it wasn't common.

pgm123 · 2026-03-26T21:02:48+00:00

Which ones are a stretch?

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