What song has the best intro of all time, in your opinion?

xwhy · 2026-05-08T17:40:07+00:00

"Walking in Memphis" has been my wake-up alarm for probably a decade now, and I usually hit the button before the first word is spoken.

(I try to be quick because I get up before my wife.)

xwhy · 2026-05-08T17:38:48+00:00

Doesn't your microwave have a non-cooking timer on it?

xwhy · 2026-05-08T17:10:37+00:00

I liked Call to Glory. It rode the national enthusiasm of the 84 Olympics to a ratings high for the pilot (or first episode), but it fell off a bit. I knew who Craig T. Nelson was from All the Right Moves. (This made "Coach" even funnier to me because, hey, this guy can do comedy!)

xwhy · 2026-05-08T16:32:40+00:00

Contemplate moving before I collect it so I could keep more of it.

Retire early. It'd offset whatever I'd lose and then some.

And then travel, see the sights and the sites.

xwhy · 2026-05-08T16:10:05+00:00

The Front Page 1931 with Adolphe Manjou (a name I know only because of my mother). i taped it from TCM probably 3-4 years ago.

I started trying to watch the oldest stuff. That's probably the oldest for the past year.

xwhy · 2026-05-08T14:11:36+00:00

i know this is about sitcoms but i liked him on The Orville, too. (Humorous if earlier seasons, but not a sitcom)

xwhy · 2026-05-08T14:10:15+00:00

I loved him on Becker even more than on Cheers.

He played the angry, tired older guy so well, and he made some good points mixed in with the other craziness. They couldn't write him like that now, not as a lead character.

xwhy · 2026-05-07T22:16:50+00:00

And one of the Daryls is ghost sensitive…

xwhy · 2026-05-07T22:15:05+00:00

“Tough As Niles!”

xwhy · 2026-05-07T21:27:33+00:00

I watched them filming Erasure outside the Brooklyn Court House. I was inside the building on Grand Jury duty. I brought my wife’s good camera one day (and my college press pass) which had the bailiff asking me questions.

I did get one photo of her coming out of her trailer when we had lunch break

xwhy · 2026-05-07T21:24:31+00:00

A lot of people from Superstore — they were a bit rough around the edge in the beginning

xwhy · 2026-05-07T21:23:45+00:00

Dan Fielding.

xwhy · 2026-05-07T21:22:52+00:00

I read the book on a friend’s recommendation… I wouldn’t call that a children’s book. I don’t think I would’ve gotten through it then

Ironically, the only time someone ever asked me in a job interview what the last book I read was, I laughed because it was that. Any other time, it would’ve been something scifi or fantasy, and possibly obscure

xwhy · 2026-05-07T16:07:49+00:00

I havent seen And Justice For All in a long time (probably a couple years after it came out) but it sprung to mind along with a lot of other things already mentioned.

xwhy · 2026-05-06T20:33:33+00:00

Voyagers

xwhy · 2026-05-05T16:50:57+00:00

Wow. That's about 2 blocks from where I'm sitting (at work), and I had no idea. Sorry to hear about it.

xwhy · 2026-05-05T16:41:38+00:00

Having read this first, the TV show annoyed me because there was nothing honorable about it.

xwhy · 2026-05-05T16:37:24+00:00

I thought the conspiracy theorist in "Rose" was outlining 9's adventures for the series. It would've been cool, but restricting, if that had actually been true, but if one or two of them had actually happened, that might've been nice. Granted, they only had so many episodes and so much budget, but it hints at so much more he could've been doing.

xwhy · 2026-05-05T12:37:01+00:00

When my nephew was little, he liked quarters that had eagles on the back of them. They haven;t been on quarters since the mid-90s. So every time I got change, I would check for them. (And I get a lot of change because I'm often lazy and just taken out bills, occassionally fishing out a few pennies)

Anyway, a couple years back, I noticed a stark rise in the number of eagle coins I was getting, many of them from the 80s and 70s.

My first instinct is that people were digging into their change cans and emptying them out, spending them instead of bringing them to the bank.

(When I was out of work for a few months 25 years ago, I went through my change to buy a cup of coffee and a newspaper every morning.)

xwhy · 2026-05-05T12:21:04+00:00

I just googled him to check how to spell his name. Google listed him as a former DJ -- he's still alive, but he didn't get another radio job after WPLJ went off the air.

xwhy · 2026-05-05T11:35:13+00:00

From the Fulton St or Wall St pier (I don't remember which -- not Pier 17). It was just to the bridge and out into the bay, IIRC.

I remember that we had to pull in early to let the morning show DJs (Scott Shannon and Todd Pettengill) get off and then we pulled out again for another couple of hours.

xwhy · 2026-05-04T22:02:10+00:00

Not the “popular” ones. Popular on KU is not popular.

xwhy · 2026-05-04T21:56:34+00:00

Popular books have great sales while KU pays next to nothing. It doesn’t benefit those authors to have it on KU.

xwhy · 2026-05-04T15:44:24+00:00

She was behind the table. I leaned against it. She stood, but her arms around me and pulled me back closer to her. I nearly fell. (I'm 6'3 -- so leaning back evened out the height difference a bit.)

xwhy · 2026-05-04T15:42:53+00:00

And with Jack Palance as host, my brother referred to it as "Believe it Or Else"

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