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**** them.

Some of my favorites; The introduction of Larry, Daryl and Daryl on Newhart. Bob and Chucks magic trick on soap. from movies, the only times I sustained a laugh to where I had to fight to stop, in a theater happened 3 times Naked Gun when he had the mic on while urinating. Dumb and Dumber when they ate the burgers with all the peppers. Something about Mary, the “hair gel”

I’m pretty sure that fans of participating teams are not considered at all in the equation for an NBA playoff game 7. It’s whatever the league and entity paying for the broadcast rights want. I went to a tiger playoff game on a Saturday night and came right back Sunday morning for a noon start time.

Now we will hear a bunch of stuff. The only good Republican is a retired republican.

Today is the 40 year anniversary of the Dallas episode where Bobby Ewing “came back” from the dead by appearing in the shower to close out the season. (He died the previous season in their cliff hanger. It all ended up being a dream). Patrick Duffy’s in town at comic con and someone shared these photos where he’s having fun with it

Once again I switch from Heat to Cool.

The cocky part is the key. Jays fans flooded tiger stadium but their team just won a title and seeing how close we were it made sense. Canadians from Ontario are harmless. Cavs fans got cocky in 88 and 89 thinking Mark Price and Daugherty were going to skip past the Pistons. Mahorn elbowed Price and he cried like a bitch. Then Jordan took care of them.

I have a 30 year hatred of Cleveland fans. Goes back to when they flooded Tiger stadium. No other city fan base makes me angry. I can’t explain it. But F them.

By “be normal” he means “don’t nominate a girl, especially a back girl”.

Alternate uniforms and Apple TV and a Bullpen day... a lot to complain about.

That's great. My wife used to work out at a place on Mack near you. Run by a very good person. Detroit Body Garage. She only left due to some scheduling issues.

Thirteen Days is a great movie, pretty accurate, but nearly ruined by Kevin Costner trying to do a Boston accent.. then he kind of gave up at some point

The good news is those guys are a bunch of fat asses that are a 1/4 mile run away from a heart attak.

My son's thinking of the Woodbridge area.

Yes. I've always said Bruh-shetta... but with a bit of flair which makes it worse as I was just emphasizing how wrong I was. I can pronounce all the other things. My wife's best friend is Italian and I spent many days with old men speaking Italian. They came to Windsor in the 50's. Not sure why I never picked that one up.

I learned yesterday I had been pronouncing Bruschetta wrong.

That's when he became a caricature of himself. The only movie of his after that where I can take him seriously was Sea of Love and I assume that's because it is a throwback to his 70's work. Seriously.... that movie was good. Saw it at the time, no big deal. Just another movie duruing a great era of movies. Watched it again a few years ago and it's a banger. Nothing special. No grand meaning or whatever... just something to entertain yourself for 2 hours. For a lot of reasons we don't have that anymore in film... not complaining about it... it's just reality. We all have too many choices now.

yeah that makes sense, especially when you need to contrast. I do recall reading specifically about that movie and the use of colors to let the viewer know which sub he was watching.

I'm listening to a podcast about Robert Duvall's career. They pointed out some movie he did where he played a Nazi general. He used a German accent. The other nazis used their british accents. I remember the first time I tried to watch Hunt for Red October I struggled with Connery's attempt. My take is just talk. It's silly to portray a Russian by speaking English in a Russian accent... Just talk normal or speak Russian and use subtitles.

I first saw it in the movie The Right Stuff... Gus Grissom, played by Fred Ward would say it. Then later on, the clean marine John Glenn almost said it after complaining about the pussy footing around by leadership when Gagarin went up. He wanted to say but was too nice to say such a thing.

When Van Earl Wright had his brief stopover in Detroit they had some fun with that concept. It was a night of a snow storm and they had him take a turn reading the school closings. When he got to L'anse Creuse the others started laughing like "Ok, how's he going to do this one?' Another is Westland. We say it West Land. Foreign readers of things like traffic and news reports will get caught saying "Westlund" Near me is a street called Dartmouth. I say Dart Mouth. Everyone did. Then I moved to Croissant after getting married. I said it "Cruh-sant". then I got scolded for turning into a snobby Dearborn resident instead of a lowly Heights resident who said "Croy-sent" Getting back to parking... if you do use the ParkWhiz app for events, I always suggest typing in the name of the event. That gets linked to it. It's important for TIger games as if there's a rainout you will get your money back. But if you can't find a spot in one of the lots on the app, try changing the event to something else. Sometimes they reserve places for things going on at The Fillmore or Fox or LCA. During the playoffs in 2024 when they announced one of the games as a day game, I snagged a spot for $10 beacuse the owners of that lot near Elephant and Co. didn't update their pricing in time. It was $50 everywhere else.

I used to have a spot at bagley and grand river, next to the gaslight, but honestly once everything went cashless that is why I quit parking there. But you can find some good spots in that area.

I’ve never had that problem. Just avoid those closest. The ones I mention above are usually stress free. Depending on where you come from.

Similar. If traffic looks to be backing up near 96 I either get off at Warren and that to grand river or will try to hit the grand river exit, which was closed a long time. Heading down grand river if you stay in the right you avoid the line of people, who for whatever reason but I’m glad they do, try to turn onto the 75 service drive. It looks like a backup but you fly right by. Then turn down Elizabeth near the new UM school. My lots are either 2130 or 2055 Cass. 2055 is better I thjnk because a right turn exiting takes me to Michigan and I take that back to Trumbull to get back to 96 to 94, avoiding the traffic at grand river and 75. if there’s a ton of people or an event at Ford Field then I pick a lot by LCA. For wings games I usually park in the structure if I’m fortunate to get a suite pass, if not then of those same lots and walk it.

I parked there in the beginning of Comerica but once got stuck via a stalled vehicle so never again. The free and low cost parking around the stadium are pretty much gone with new construction going on. I now use the ParkWhiz app to get parking ahead of time as many of the lots are part of their system. You pay ahead of time and get a barcode to get in. If you want to try street parking over off of Cass north of 75 that's an option if you don't mind walking. It's usually in the $20-30 range.