@siracusa @hotdogsladies From the dept of “ponies are not baby horses”
https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/s/bG16vP8fM9 Some good ones in here
I sent my MacBook to Apple for a repair. The good news: Fully covered, got it back in a week, feels brand new. The bad news: they wiped it, and when I installed the backup, I was now running Tahoe. Noooooo…… It’s fine.
@RecDiffs Re Merlin’s childhood Galliano memory. In that era there was a fad cocktail known as a Harvey Wallbanger that required it. Decades later as an adult I had one at a bar that for some reason had the liqueur on hand. Perhaps the bottle was left over from the 1970s. It’s some weird stuff.. The cocktail was merely okay.
Efforts like this might stitch the splintered indie journalism world back together after the corporate social media collapse. Maybe we can revive the dying web while we’re at it
https://journalismatlas.com/Don't buy food to get a free toy, and don't buy toys to get free food.
@siracusa @caseyliss After rewatching … We didn’t use an entire slice of bread, just a small piece. And the corn was piping hot so the butter melted onto it. They sell little corn dishes now that do the job better.
@siracusa @caseyliss Maybe the scene was about the margarine. That was a new health craze
@siracusa @caseyliss I love War Games. 1) Re buttering corn on the cob with bread. In my 1970s upstate NY childhood, that’s how we did it. It seemed commonplace (a kid thing?) but I don’t know why you’d put it in a movie. 2) My late father was inside Cheyenne Mountain for his Air Force job in the 1960s. He said the movie set was flashier than the real thing but many aspects were accurate. 3) Many teachers of that era (not all) were mean as hell. Totally believable
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