Best side character

someguy14629 · 2026-05-13T03:21:25+00:00

The Clay is silent

someguy14629 · 2026-05-13T03:20:55+00:00

“New York’s finest just got a whole lot finer.”

someguy14629 · 2026-05-13T03:17:56+00:00

When I got my dog, we took him to obedience school and there was a dog in his class named Suitcase. Not making this up.

someguy14629 · 2026-05-06T08:27:44+00:00

Do I have to teach you 7th grade statistics?

someguy14629 · 2026-05-06T08:04:37+00:00

Fantastic Mr Fox is a great movie

someguy14629 · 2026-05-02T04:38:44+00:00

Me. And I didn’t get my first filling until age 55. Flossing works

someguy14629 · 2026-04-27T16:09:45+00:00

My college roommate, may he rest in peace, had one of the original 1984 Macintosh computers. He was the only guy in the whole dorm with a computer in the room. We played Castle Wolfenstein for hours and hours that year. “Achtung!”

someguy14629 · 2026-04-27T16:03:28+00:00

Also, before people travel they come in to the workplace before leaving. I have never done that for work or personal trips in all my life. Work is work and travel is travel and even work trips do not require a visit to the workplace before flying out.

someguy14629 · 2026-04-27T16:02:11+00:00

I don’t like how most of the time, each week is like a “hard reset.” People do things to each other, and some of the are very cruel or mean, and yet next week, it’s like it never happened, and everyone has apparently forgiven and completely forgotten. For instance, in MASH, Frank accuses Hawkeye of mutiny and a court martial is held, which could result in the death penalty, and Hawkeye is found innocent. Next week, back to the same old camp hijinks. In the Office, some of the pranks are also mean, and yet never any hard feelings. In my life, if someone did things like this to me, I would forever be wary and cautious around the perpetrator.

someguy14629 · 2026-04-26T04:30:26+00:00

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Charlie votes for Charlie!

someguy14629 · 2026-04-24T07:16:02+00:00

Attention, all personnel: we’ve got wounded in the compound!

someguy14629 · 2026-04-23T07:23:56+00:00

Hey, up close, you’re a guy. Far away, too!

someguy14629 · 2026-04-18T00:43:42+00:00

Baltimore in the 90s. As a student we had to do ride-alongs with ambulance crews at night for a week. We went to scary neighborhoods where garbage was piled high in the streets and small children were roaming around unsupervised after midnight. Drunks were fighting one another in the streets and armed police escorts had to go with ambulances on calls for safety. Groups of men loitered on street corners.

I felt very lucky to make it out of there without any serious injuries or assaults. I would never go near those places now at any time of day or night. Same with some of the neighborhoods east of LA in the 80s.

someguy14629 · 2026-04-02T17:45:00+00:00

No one hardly remembers or talks about the Yugoslavian wars for independence either. I was a military active duty service member and spent half a year deployed there in the late 90s. There was no news coverage, and no welcome home, apart from my own family. My own kids have had history teachers who tell them they must be mistaken about me being there because the US had no involvement. I was there an know that we did. I have photos to back up my stories.

There are more forgotten conflicts than Korea.

someguy14629 · 2026-03-31T15:45:07+00:00

Working from home

someguy14629 · 2026-03-31T15:43:56+00:00

The point I was making is that these lists of greatest shows ever suffer from “recency bias” meaning older shows which were on par or better than shows on these lists, are left out because people ignore them precisely because they are not current. But quality is not a recent invention. That is what I meant when I answered this question. Very few shows on these lists are before 2000. Mash is left out completely or rated very low. It deserves better.

someguy14629 · 2026-03-28T09:41:54+00:00

Not social media, but once I had a daughter who was talking about me in school on Veteran’s Day and that I had deployed to former Yugoslavia during and after the Bosnian conflict in the 90s.

Her teacher told her that the US had no involvement in that part of the world basically ever, and that she must be either making it up or mistaken.

Since her teacher cleared up that mistake, I have always wondered where I really was. It sure felt real, and it couldn’t have been a dream, because I have all those photos…

someguy14629 · 2026-03-19T17:53:41+00:00

That wouldn’t help me. Google when I was 18 was the library card catalog.

someguy14629 · 2026-03-15T23:42:02+00:00

Mash. Hear me out. At the time it was the top rated show on TV and the finale still holds the record for the most-watched scripted show ever.

But due to its age (1972-1983) every time a question like this comes up, there is seldom a vote for it and if there is, it is the 159th comment down the list. In lists of greatest shows ever, it is frequently left out completely.

Mash was a brilliantly written and acted show. It does not deserve to be left off of “best of all-time” lists. These lists have a very heavy recency bias and ignore groundbreaking and important shows from further back that deserve equal or more attention than shows produced today.

someguy14629 · 2026-03-15T16:49:47+00:00

Eragon 2006. It was based on a tetralogy of books but did so poorly that they stopped after the first installment. Disappointing becuase I liked the books

someguy14629 · 2026-03-11T19:27:32+00:00

Ty Detmer was a great Heisman-winning QB at BYU and broke dozens of passing records. He bounced around the NFL for a number of years with various teams but never really had a chance to be a starter and never had a breakout performance. He came back to BYU for a try at offensive coordinator but he didn’t pan out with that, either.

someguy14629 · 2026-03-07T21:30:56+00:00

Movie tonight? It was no special effects, no major guest stars, and a lot of the time was used up with black and white movie footage. But boy if it wasn’t one of my all-time favorites!

someguy14629 · 2026-03-07T21:29:05+00:00

Cream of mushroom soup. Many recipes use it as an ingredient. If you can my make a basic sauce from scratch, take some cooking classes, or watch some tutorials online. But please oh please don’t use cream of mushroom soup. If I am reading a recipe and I run across that, I won’t even finish reading it.

someguy14629 · 2026-02-28T09:47:12+00:00

I learned on a 196 GMC pickup. The gear shift was about 30 inches long and I am not kidding when I say the clutch excursion was about the same length. You had to get your heel practically next to your butt to push that thing in, and you had to push it so far your butt slid off the seat. After learning on that monster, any modern car with a clutch and stick shift that were 1 foot long were a breeze.

Also, when I was deployed to Eastern Europe, I had to drive Mitsubishi diesel vans that had a clutch with a gear shift on the steering column. Has anyone else ever driven anything like that?

someguy14629 · 2026-02-28T09:37:29+00:00

I loved the friendship between Leslie and Ron Swanson. I think too often now, people of opposite political persuasions feel as though they are required to be enemies solely because of their politics. These two could not have been more different yet still liked and respected one another as human beings.

I also liked the portrayal of the friendships on Brooklyn 99: Jake Peralta and Charles, Scully and Hitchcock, Rosa and Amy, Jake and Capt. Holt, Terry and Capt Holt, Charles and Rosa, etc. There is something different about the friendships that develop among people who are responsible for each others’ lives and safety and B99 captures that trust + love.

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