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And I am all over the orange cheeked dinosaurs roaming my living room being happy.

Hearing "Mockumentary" always makes me want to rewatch the theatrically released one "Drop Dead Gorgeous".

Apparently a lot of variants of it... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles#Toponymy (I wonder how common all of them were).

It's interesting sometimes listening to old times radio shows and commercials from the 30s-50s and how some words pronunciations have changed: protein as pro-tee-in and Los Angeles as Los An-guh-lees (hard g) show up that way regularly. One commercial had smooth as smewth.

Picked up a copy of John McAleer's "Killer Conversations" that just came out. It was originally published as the limited edition "Royal Decree" in 1983 and is just over 100 pages, 80 of them being questions and answers with Rex Stout. A sizeable number (although I think well less than half)...

Holy cow, I go off to help at summer camp for a week, and when I get back that thread has rocketed past this one. Trying and failing to resist the urge to go rubber neck...

Nothing to do with your post, except the word. I was just coming here from elsewhere to post something about the staunch desire of many folks to act like there is no nuance on others' side of arguments, but always demanding it on their side. :-/

Holy cow... even Straczynski's Thor comic run was like 17 years ago. I don't remember if I read all of it, but I remember this issue Thor vs. Iron Man .

For a second I was reading the requirement as a book that was non-core, but it is any product that isn't a core book. So, checks out and is a super strong contender!

I am picturing a matrix-esque bookstore where the shelves slide by to what you want - organized the way the user wants, to facilitate both easy finding and browsing.

I have fond memories of the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide and Wilderness Survival Guide - but they came out in a place in my life (and 1e's existence) where they didn't have a chance to get much use in practice. My own copies left my possession decades ago and they aren't ones I've picked up...

Our uni's (much depleted?) library science program is in the building I look at out my office window. Being an academic, it is part of my profession's code to ignore that one can earn a PhD in pedagogy, curriculum design, technical writing, assessment, program evaluation, programing, ... :)...

I'm kind of partial to Author > Publication Date of (first) Book (in series) > Publication Date within Series (if it is in one) If nothing else because I would smile when I saw the Narnia books in the correct order. Is Poetry outside of Fiction/Non-fiction? If the poetry was willy-nilly...

You both pushed me into starting to watch it (Leverage). Thanks!

Going through some Rex Stout and came across this line again. Apropos, perhaps, to some uses of the block list or some choices to be made in modern commerce. "No. My eyes are inured to ugliness, but you offend them. Get out. Go!"

Green Man Porter from North Carolina. Maybe a bit unusual these days for a porter or Stout in that it isn't primarily coffee or chocolate. A bit more caramel flavor than I would pick near the bottom of the glass - but the start was about perfect.

I'm wondering if that thread has enough oomph to catch this one. At the rate its been going could be next week...

Shift managed a pizza place in undergrad (late 80s/early 90s) but not since then. A chunk of my spending money goes to breakfasting out at a usual place (the comfort to start the day positively is worth it), and lunch is too often eaten out (I need to stop that!). Not that problems pop up that...