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Hey, I just wanted to tell you how much I love you. You’re commenting awesome out here. This is your last comment, then I’m going to RMJ=Hero, OK? You understand? You come right after him. Cheer up. Have some fun, come right after him. Read more

Speaking of Wishes, I was hoping to see a thread beneath this that was wabbit fuckers/duck fuckers for 131 replies.

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Winner right here. Read more

Fuck her, and fuck her eunuch husband Read more

Wait, where’s Getting Hit By a Car? Read more

No, cycling does involve blood. Necessarily so. That’s why it’s not a sport. Read more

Yeah but cycling isn’t a sport Read more

A good friend of mine was given a day trip to Washington for his birthday to see the Redskins and Eagles play on Monday Night Football. This was in RFK, and he saw a bunch of Philadelphia fans grab the Chief and stuff him into a trashcan, feet over his head, on the mezzanine breezeway. No one tried to stop it. What a… Read more

It wasn’t my first credit card, but the biggest tip I have for getting one is “Have a fraternity brother who manages a bank branch after you graduate.” I got a gold card even though I was making $17,000 in salary, 20 years ago this month. Still have the account open. Read more

This is a FOAF story (friend of a friend) but the editor who hired me in Cooperstown, his brother was a NY State Trooper who worked security for the 1980 Olympics. He was at the USA-USSR semifinal and had his back to the rink the entire time. Read more

No way dude, I’m the Highlander. There can be only one. You dig? Read more

Yep, Mt. St. Helens and the boycott were huge in my mind, too. I remember thinking the boycott had something to do with the Boy Scouts. Read more

Boulder, Colo. has a star on a hill leading to the Flatirons that lights up in Christmastime; it originated as a kind of leave-the-lights-on tribute to the hostage crisis. Read more

Driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit, Utah. I was but a lad sweeping my father’s general goods store in Grand Island, Neb., where Western Union rented an office in the back, and I remember the excited clacking as the news came through and the whooping and hollering of the wireman. Glory be hallelujah. Read more

Hinckley shot Reagan on the day of the 1981 National Championship between Indiana and UNC. Read more

I remember U.S. hockey (I was six), I also remember the confusion of the moment because it was shown on tape delay.

There was also the flight from DC National Airport that crashed into an icy Potomac but I think that was after all of this. Read more

My best friend’s mother, who died in May, saw Elvis play in Lexington, N.C., some time before he made the Ed Sullivan Show. She swore he made eyes at her from the stage, but also acknowledged he probably did so with every girl in the gym.

When Elvis died, she was heartbroken. My friend’s father gathered up the family… Read more

The Iranian Revolution and U.S. Embassy hostage crisis. Read more

+1 for using formal agreement. Read more

He caught the ball as it was dropping so it’s not an alley oop. #shillTruthing Read more