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A Chick-fil-A manager saved a drive-thru Covid-19 vaccination clinic after traffic backed up

Huzzah then to William Hubert and the Chicago White Stockings, Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Stockings, Hartford Dark Blues, New York Mutuals, St. Louis Brown Stockings, Cincinnati Reds and Louisville Greys who joined his crazy idea (and who all helped Hubert from losing his top players due to NAPBBP sanctions... 😛 ⚾)

Eh, it was pretty gratuitous. Then again I didn't really like Ninja Scroll, so I might not be the best judge.

I hadn't heard whe he first announced he had cancer that it was stage 4 lung cancer. Apparently at that point it was super aggressive. In other news. Hal Holbook passed away.

I doubt you'd get Carter; the democratic candidates who had the most success in the primaries of 1976 weren't national politicians (Brown, Wallace and Carter), which in itself suggests the party was looking for something not connected with national politics as a reaction to Nixon. You'd probably get RFK's VP vs Reagan in 1976 (assuming RFK got two terms).

Dustin Diamond

Kellam de Forest, who gave us Stardates and the Gorn

^You should be able to just cut & past the link to the tweet, and the forum software will do the work. Example:

Steven Seagal about not working on an Expendables film - "I just don’t like some of the people involved. Life is too short to work with funny people." That said, Seagal is allegedly difficult to work with. He also allegedly would only do Machete if his character, rather than losing to the title character, fought him and killed himself rather than be shown defeated.

@Darkpriest Maybe, but a number of people seemed to like the split, so I figure we'll wait and see a bit longer.

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I'd imagine they'd actually have to re-do (rather than upscale) the effects shots to transition to 16:9. Still good news. Would re-buy a complete series set if they put it out on physical media with these.

I'd missed this story earlier - https://www.yukon-news.com/news/former-ceo-of-great-canadian-gaming-actress-charged-after-flying-to-beaver-creek-for-covid-19-vaccine/

We can...uh...send Trump on a world tour if that would help.

Thanks. I'll have to rewatch it, it seems.

I don't get what the big deal is about who is on the bill. There were 11 designs before Jackson, why does it freeze on him rather than Cleveland, Garfield or Stephen Decatur? Also wasn't Jackson on a bill a bit ironic, anyhow? IIRC he was against paper money. Maybe we should have just stuck with Liberty on everything...?

I thought Darmok and Jalal got there separately in ship wrecks, but I may have missed that explanation...

I actually like Darmok a good bit, but I feel like it got hurt by the length of the story. There's no reason Dalthon had to kidnap Picard (IMO) as a first strategem as opposed to saying something in their way of speaking to indicated going to the planet surface and then teleporting down to the planet surface and, if Picard did not follow, beaming up, and repeating. Or using shuttlecraft and using the time to get to the planet to try and get them to understand the need to meet planetside. It seemed like a desperate ploy, and I didn't understand why they started with that. Would have made a great cliffhanger for a two-part episode, if they needed to go that route. I'm also unsure (and maybe a rewatch would make me sure) if Dalthon knew the monster was on the world or not, which seems like a big oversight if they didn't know, and curious strategy if they did. Still there is a lot to like and Paul Winfield was pretty much good in anything, even under layers of make-up.

Probably reasons to be suspicious of the OK symbol...

I'm not sure the OK symbol is an example of something changing over time due to use, as much as its an example of the OK symbol being metaphorically attacked in a back alley by a gang, taken away and held hostage in an undisclosed location while an exact duplicated created through cunning and cutting edge plastic surgery takes its place.

Okay, so I'm rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation for the first time since it aired in first run and I've gotten to Season 5. I think this may be the season that I stopped watching regularly and just caught episodes here and there afterwards. Now true confession, I'm an original series Star Trek fan so while I have fond memories of the better TNG shows, it isn't my touchstone of Trekkiness and has always had things that I didn't like about it. YMMV. The season started concluding the "Redemption" cliffhanger, and it wasn't a bad conclusion to that story, and "Darmok" and "Ensign Ro" tried some interesting things, even if I'm not sure they worked 100%. "Disaster" was awful, particularly the part where everyone - including Troi - is surprised she's the next in line for bridge command. Surely this was mentioned at some point prior to people agreeing to these positions? And instead of giving Troi a chance to rise to the occasion, she's shown as a weak and indecisive leader. How can someone who is so inept at decision making be a counselor? Certainly she has to have some insight, logic, training in problem solving that could have been used? And putting Picard with the kids seemed like an excuse to have the viewer sit through Picard being uncomfortable with kids. "The Game" is a bit better. It doesn't work, entirely, IMO, but its an improvement. To be honest I can't remember what I didn't think worked, something about the last minute plan, but still I enjoyed it. "Unification" shows that not even Leonard Nimoy as Spock can improve everything. First off what a sad send-off of Sarek that his death scene doesn't exist on screen. And second, pretty much everyone involved in the mission (including Spock) had to be stupid not to see what the Romulans were up to. "A Matter of Time" has Matt Frewer in it which is a plus. And it was a good idea, its just that fell flat in the end. Then we get "New Ground", "Hero Worship" and "Violations". In "New Ground" we see Worf uncomfortable as a father. This is a good idea, and an interesting position for the character. But the scenes themselves make no sense. Why would Worf need to physically enroll his kid into classes on the Enterprise? Is there like 3 or 4 schools being run on the ship that the kid has to be accepted to? The teachers don't seem to have made any accommodation to try to understand Klingons, but surely this is SOP for a ship with multiple cultures/alien races on it? Sure you could argue that it was short notice, but it didn't seem like they didn't even try. What was Alexander's obsession with the creature in the class about? Its like the scenes happen, but there isn't an internal logic to the story that allowed me to get into the plot. The plot was an excuse to have Worf and Alexander bicker, but there's not ultimate point or revelatory moment for the characters, I felt. And yet the episode worked better than "Hero Worship". First, the school in "New Ground" is miles above what is presented in "Hero Worship". Here the school seems to be a classroom to teach banality. The teacher seems to have no real desire to integrate Timothy in his class, and Troi's suggestions of how to help the boy don't ring true, and seems to exist solely to serve the plot - namely to fob the boy off on Data. Which could work, but the episode takes a story of a boy experiencing, processing and recovering from trauma into an episode about Data's awkwardness of having to deal with the boy. I understand the appeal as everyone likes Data, but even if you wanted Data to be impactful of the story, the focal point of this story is the kid. its like telling Don Quixote from the perspective of the windmill. Thus the resolution of the story is for Data, not the kid, which undercuts the premise of the episode. And finally there's "Violations", an episode that wants to bring up the subject of rape. It doesn't want to actually delve into the subject; you're not going to see a motivation as to why the psychic attacker is doing what they do; nor are you going to understand why they pick the memories they do or anything close to a motivation. You're also not going to see how their actions relates with their family, friends, co-workers, larger society or anything. Nor are you going to see how the victims cope with the trauma that has been inflicted to them. Nope, this episode is perfectly content to bring the subject up and stop there. I hope the back half of the season makes up for this. Looking at the titles, I'm pretty sure there are at least 2 episodes I liked and 1 I disliked in the back half, the rest I'm blank on without spoiling the episodes. And I hope we don't see episodes where Riker, La Forge, O'Brien, Ro, Crusher, et al, are forced to deal with a kid for an episode. Did the producers get to season 5 and think - "Hey, lets create a bunch of scenarios where one of the cast has to deal with a kid! It'll be great!". Surely the production - even if they wanted to make these stories and thought they were worth doing in the same season - should have realized that having 3 episodes within 7 involving the major cast being put into uncomfortable mentorship roles with kids was a little much? You've got 26 episodes this season to spread that out!

Doesn't it have to be over the forehead to mean loser, otherwise you're just pointing up? That really wasn't one used in my circle growing up.