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I had a similar incident with Avis. A couple years ago I was on business travel and rear-ended at a stop light. Our company policy was to decline the insurance and make a claim with our credit card. I filed a claim with Diner's Club and they paid the damage to the car. Fast forward about 3...

It can. Where I live, in an effort to get people to build piers (long ago), the property lines extend to the low tide mark, so technically you own a few hundred feet of the sea.

I'm sure quite a bit of the loss was absorbed by the single franchise where the finger was "found", rather than the 6000 Wendy's franchises equally. Sure, Wendy's can absorb the loss, but look at it from the perspective of the franchise owner, who for all intents and purposes is a small business...

News just did a story on it and said it was missing the gas tank.

Along with Season 6, Season 7 is altogether one of the strongest. Not really any stinkers in the bunch. Season 8 was a bit inconsistent (Passion of the Jew and Goobacks), but it's bookended by 2 of the best episodes ever(Good Times with Weapons and Woodland Critter Christmas). Season 9 so far...

I think you're talking about Frank Nelson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nelson The "yes" guy on The Simpson's is based on him.

Fair enough. Don't think I've really bought any Universal discs since the last incarnation of Scarface, so I wasn't aware of that. This is what happens when every movie has been released so many times, you stop buying them.

What DVD-18's? To the best of my knowledge Universal has never released a double sided, dual layer movie. The phenomenon of discs going bad has been limited to specific RSDL discs, none of which were DVD-18. All the discs from Universal and Warner discussed here as going bad are DVD-9.

IIRC, the issue was delamination between the RSDL layers. I remember dead discs first cropping up about six months after the initial release of Contact. The initial pressing (the one that had the legal issues) of Devil's Advocate had the same problem as well, I think. Ah, the good old days when...

Just checked my Apollo 13 and it's not working anymore. Contact and Casino still do work.

ha, it wasn't the idea that made me think Hanson, but the wording. He reiterates it so often in Culture and Carnage (one of my favorites), that the sentence just jumped out at me. Ah, what would a Hanson article be without a Thucydides reference?

Can I take it you're a fan of Victor Davis Hanson as well? :)

I've seen Carling in a couple bars in Boston, but it's not particularly popular. Pretty much Bass, Newcastle, somtimes Boddington or Tetley's are the English players in our neck of the woods. In bottles, you'll find Sam Smiths. Wish I could find Watney's or McEwans (Scottish I know), but...

I've always been a fan of the P-47. I remember reading a book that a Jug came home once with only 8 of 18 cylinders still firing and another came home after flying so low a pole sliced 4 feet off of one wing. Ugly as sin, but what a great gun platform. Pity it didn't have a longer range.

I would disagree with that. Most good SciFi tends to get hackneyed/repetitive very quickly. Compare Dark Angel Season 1 with Dark Angel Season 2. It's a hard genre to stay fresh more than a couple seasons and that's what I think separates the top 8 on the list from just about everything else...

Definitely some streches in there. Buffy makes 27, but no Angel. No Space:Above and Beyond. How about The Prisoner. It's almost like the writer had the first 8 in mind, posed the question to his friends during a drinking bout and then just threw 42 responses in no real order to make an even 50.

http://www.history.navy.mil/avh-1910/PART06.PDF amongst others Check out Nov. 20, 1946. According to another forum, the date was really Nov. 22 and there was an issue of conversion between meters and feet. Anyhow, here the link to that discussion...

Sure, but comparing a rocket to a jet (or prop for the sake of this argument), would be like comparing a turboprop to a piston. This would be like saying the ME-209 didn't hold the prop speed record for 30 years, but the TU-114 held/holds it.

Paul After researching, here's the deal. There seems to be a report that a Bearcat went from brakes off to 10000 feet in 91 seconds and it took an F-16 to beat this. I can't find citing as to when this happened though. In 1946, we know for a fact a Bearcat went from 0-10000 in 97.8...

The P-80 had a higher rate of climb by about 30% as well. I didn't realize that 2 of them made it to Italy before peace broke out. Neither were used in operations though.

The ME163 had about twice the rate of climb, but regardless the ME163 was rocket powered, not engine powered. It had a much higher Rate of Climb that the 262 though, by about 30%. Many jet aircraft before the F-16 had better numbers though. For example, the F-4D's climb rate is over 40000...

Constantinople didn't officially become Instanbul until 1930. The Ottomans called it Instanbul, but officially it's name was Konstantiniyye until it was renamed by the Republic of Turkey.

I think it would probably be cheaper and quicker to just buy the arcadeVGA than dealing with swapping out the monitor. If you go to the arcadeVGA installation instructions http://www.ultimarc.com/avgainst.html, it gives instructions to make your own VGA->monitor cable. They also sell a premade...

Ain't that the truth. I grew up halfway between Boston and NYC, so I always assumed everyone spoke like the people on tv. I discovered in college (BU) just how few places actually spoke that way. There were just a few of us from CT, Western Mass and NH who actually said "water" instead of...

I've had the exact opposite problem. I grew up in CT, which doesn't have an accent, but I've been up here so long now my R's have gotten a bit softer. If I had a dime everytime someone asked me where I was originally from in England or Ireland, I'd have about $5.20. :)

aw, c'mon. All in good fun :) In honor of Rhode Island, you have better beaches than us, excellent fishing, Newport and Buddy Cianci (and his tomato sauce):D. I'm usually down in Newport every couple of months to satisfy a craving for Puerini's. Anywhere in that area make a decent clam cake? You...

The only reason to go to RI is for Hot Wieners on the way back from the Casino :) Never tried clam cakes. Where's a good place to get them?

I would change this to: You can spot a tourist, because he orders Sammy when Harpoon is on tap.

Should any of my fellow New Englanders get the urge to shoot a suppressed MP5, you can get rent them at Machester Firing Line in Manchester, NY. Lots of other cool toys for rent too.

Check out The Nostalgia Factory. http://www.nostalgia.com/ They don't seem to have either of those two you mentioned in stock though. Excellent thing is the Unforgiven poster I bought from them for $30 8 years ago is now selling for $185. The Dune I bought for $25 is now selling for $85...