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My Top 10 favorite pizza toppings: 1. Chicken bacon ranch 2. Pepperoni 3. Sausage 4. Marghareta (marinara and basil) 5. BBQ chicken 6. Broccoli, ricotta, olive oil, and garlic 7. Green peppers 8. Hawaiian (pineapple and ham) 9. Cheeseburger 10. Plain, with oregano Anybody wanna debate the...

I've always said as good as some of the movies can be, Roald Dahl's books are far better. If you're lucky enough to get your hands on an original edition of James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, or either of the Charlie books, the original illustrations are a perfect complement to the...

Kick starter is your first step. "I Am Big Bird" would not have been possible without it. You're going to need some budget, especially if you're going to complete it by yourself AND within a year's time. To submit something to Netflix (or any other distributor), it will need some professional...

Denial is such a wonderful place to be. "Not MY precious little angel!"

It's more disgusting when school authorities know something is wrong, and try to cover it up. About 25 years ago, four high school football players raped and molested a handicapped girl, and never even got a slap on the wrist. They were part of a team that was having an undefeated season, and it...

It's the same dehydrated beef stroganoff they were peddling during Y2K. Actually, if some foreign foe (real or imagined) dropped a bomb tomorrow, I wouldn't want to be around during the aftermath. What good is your life if you have radiation poisoning that will slowly kill you anyway? And if...

Bullying is a regrettable fact of life, but hopefully people outgrow. I was bullied to death in grades 3-5, by kids a year or two older than me. Thankfully, years later, I've run into a number of these guys, and many of them have apologized for picking on me when we were younger. That's nice. A...

I totally forgot about this thread, until it got bumped. About a year after I posted here, I did get to meet Caroll again, and hug him (also got to hand him a picture I drew for him). Not too much on my Bucket List now, but being lucky enough to meet Caroll twice is tremendous. It might sound...

Those little red decals were long after my time. But I was opposed to them being issued. If you're a teenage female, it makes you an easy target for molesters and perverts to spot you. My hats off to you for getting your license early. In NJ, having a car is essential. If you can't drive (or...

Fear. I can understand not wanting to drive for some of you. It's not the manual dexterity it takes to drive. Some of you use the same level of concentration, and hand-eye coordination playing your video games. I can see where fear can prevent some from wanting to drive, or even trying (fear of...

Pete Rose would make eleven.

There are a few cars (Camry's included) you keep changing the oil regularly, they'll run for years.Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Nissan Altima or Sentra. Treat them right, they'll do the same for you. Never had much luck with Fords (trucks yes, cars no). Ford stands for Fixed Or Repaired Daily...

Gene also paired well with Richard Pryor (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy), Zero Mostel (The Producers), but the trilogy of Willy Wonka, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein, cinema gold. As I got older, I noticed more in Willy Wonka his demented glee as each of the rotten kids meet their doom...

Cliques and bullies still exist, hmmm...this is actually kinda neat, discussing stuff from years ago (decades for me). The only real bad time in school for me were grades 3-5. All the negative aspects of public school- cliques, bullies, cranky old biddies whose job was to force feed facts and...

My senior year rocked also. We had nine periods (only 40 minutes each). After I got English, Physics, and History out of the way, the rest of the day was a no-brainer. I was able to take Driver Ed. instead of Gym. Band- playing drums, easy A. Chorus- sing, Easy A. Music Theory (also called...

School was 50/50 to me. Half I loved, half I hated. Sometimes they're linked so closely it's hard to separate them. Both fonts of 4 are correct. Different forms of lower case letters with various hooks and serifs are still correct. Don't let them tell you different. I still remember in first...

Lazy people. Gotta love 'em. In the CVS where my wife works, a lot of people park in the fire lane. Simply for sheer convenience. Despite the fact there are plenty of LEGAL parking spots a few feet away. But some people are either too lazy to walk that far, or feel ENTITLED to park in the fire...

Radio used to be better, if you knew where to look. College radio used to play more esoteric stuff than the usual top 40 crap, only college radio stations didn't have that strong a signal, so you won't hear it too far off campus. One bright spot, around 1990 (ancient history for some of you, I...

Yes, this is the Sesame closing theme burned into my soul. In the early days, he sat in with Joe Raposo quite a bit and made beautiful music. Reunited in Heaven today, the first thing out of Joe's mouth would be, "Hiya, Toots!!!" 8) Thank you Toots. Your harmonica was the sweetest ear candy.

Insurance is a wonderful scam. Besides medical insurance, here's a little taste of how life insurance works. Companies try to sell whole life policies (as sincere as Alex Trebek looks in those Colonial Penn ads, these policies are a ripoff). Many of these policies build "cash value" over time...