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I remember, as kids, we had our own version of that song, that started, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be... do not forGIT-- stay out of ****....

@JohnMatrix89 A lyre? Appropriate name for an instrument on which to play Beowulf. It's heroic, but sheer fantasy, you gotta admit.

@nhbiker1961 Imagine looking at sunrise on the Berlin Wall, and I'm sure your face appears.

@RodericSpode college football moved the goal posts from the goal line to the end line (back of the end zone) in 1927.

Now I know how I would feel if a sudden flood came up to window level when I was at KFC and my chicken suddenly ran off.

@Peopstup I don't think that's a very kind thing to say about a polar bear.

"Bear eats moose alive"? Well good, I don't know why a DEAD bear would be eating moose.

"...the importance of farmers"? By '68 there weren't THAT many farmers voting. And he knew about the poor, the middle incomers, .... Oh, we could have been sure of that, couldn't we? Growing up in a family of extreme privilege, where Pop bought their way into what they wanted or out of what they ...

@GodRocks707 Of course, if he had been more honest, that speech would have been more like, "Ask not what I can do for your country-- ask what Marilyn Monroe can do for ME!"

"It's not what you are-- it's what people THINK you are that matters... and if you have enough money, you can make them think anything." Old Joe was right on that. Observe how many still think these philanderers with a sense of entitlement and a mad lust for power and pleasure were "heroes," "gre...

@mrkingofkings I would say Dallas got their revenge long ago against Green Bay. I can remember 2 playoff games Dallas won-- 1982 and 1995 (NFC Championship), and I think there was one other; but only a conference championship comes close to the magnitude of this game, which was the 'real deal' th...

We don't have any damn prince! We're no monarchy.

I have always considered this ep the best. Ever noticed the symbolism in the names here? Some could be a coincidence, but I tend to not think so. The Stones-- their whole lives are on the patriarch's death, and Ma is seen talking to the stones over his grave. Lou seems to always be in the wrong p...

Think of Chumley here next time you put ketchup on anything.

I remember seeing this several times as a kid, and I eventually started singing with that music when the termites are coming... "Ter-min-ites, ter-min-ites, ter-min-er-min-er-min-ites............."

@xxchinookxx No, the Dallas Cowboys had Calvin Hill, who became their first 1000 yard rusher in 1972. And it wasn't Schramm's decision to not re-sign Thomas-- and he still had a year to go on his original contract-- but when he did not show for a meeting at camp in '72, Landry went to check on hi...

@DoesNotExist305 No, it just barely did clear the goal post on the goal line; no chance to have made it another 10 yards LOL. But if what you meant was that any 63-yard field goal then -would- be 73 now, that's true. But the only way any team would try it is at this same situation with a regular ...

Having seen all parts of this game-- thanks to the one who posted it. Wow, the differences in football then... almost always a FB and a HB, who split ball-carrying; wideouts in 3-pt. stances; 15 yards for holding; goal posts on the goal line; hash marks placed ? yds. further toward sideline, stil...

"Joe Namath was sacked only 16 times last year." I thought I'd heard that "sack," meaning to down a QB attempting to pass only came into use about '72 or '73. Or perhaps did Jackson say "lap?" A long time ago that was used in the stats column; "LAP yards," meaning Lost Attempting to Pass.

When I was a kid in the 60's, even though my home town was near Dallas, a lot of people cheered for Green Bay because of the hometown football hero, Tommy Crutcher, "Tommy Joe" as he was always called. He was a backup linebacker, who may well have been a starter on many teams, but GB had their 3 ...

@yourpalal1227 Don't you mean 34 Years? Well, that IS more than 24.

There is no reason this park, with an event that could not have happened by natural means, cannot get tax breaks if the Disney parks did, with their witches and fairies and magic.

@smittykins I know cigarette ads were banned Jan. 1, 1971, and I'm sure that smokeless tobacco [snuff; chew] was banned in 1987. Cigars, I think, were somewhere between those years. However, just a year or 2 ago I remember hearing some Black & Mild cigar ads on radio, which is regulated the same ...

When my sister and I were kids we use to mimic that jingle: "You can take Salem out of the country's butt-- you can't take the country out of Salem's butt!"

"Mild" FTR was the code word tobacco companies adopted in response to the growing medical research that smoking is dangerous. They knew smokers were becoming more aware, so they could no longer point to some study of their own claiming THEIR product is safe. So putting filtering methods into the ...