Jason English
Friday Happy Hour: Lightning Round
by Jason English - September 26, 2008 - 2:49 PM
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This week I thought we’d do a lightning round of questions from previous Happy Hours, plus name the winners of last Friday’s Create Your Own Holiday contest. Answer whatever you’d like…

1) What’s the most shocking thing you’ve found while snooping? (Snooping stories not limited to closets and medicine cabinets. Think email, Googling, NSA files, etc.)

2) What’s the crappiest car you’ve ever owned? Was it a clunker from the start, or did you simply drive it into the ground?

3) What’s the most intriguing VHS tape you still own? (We’re not looking for movies you’ve bought in VHS format. Rather, stuff you’ve taped from TV or shot yourself.)

4) What’s the strangest place you’ve been that offers free wireless internet service?

5) I just realized Chuck Klosterman has a new book out. (Downtown Owl: A Novel.) He would probably have been my answer to this question: which author’s next book are you most eagerly anticipating?

6) What was the first movie you saw in a theater? (For me, it was the 1985 classic Follow That Bird.)

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7) Here’s your chance to shamelessly plug a struggling business. I’ve already expressed my love for the Planet Smoothie in Roxbury, NJ. Free wireless, comfortable seating, liquid lunches and rarely a crowd. But that last part scares me. Name an establishment you’re hoping to help save. And if you live within, say, 45 miles of Roxbury, fill up the tank and head on over.

Now it’s time to wrap up last week’s ‘Create Your Own Holiday’ contest. The winner is Matt! Here’s his entry:

How about Jeopar-Day, where all interactions must be phrased as Jeopardy answers and questions, such as:

Waiter: The answer is…Your order.
Patron: Um…What is…the grilled chicken, the mushroom and swiss burger, and two sodas.
Waiter: Correct! True or False……This ticket is split.
Patron: False. It’s together
Waiter: Correct! I’ll be right back with your order.

Or:

Boss: The answer is…Compile a report of our year-to-date sales, finalize the Peterson account, and email me a list of the weeks customer prospects.
Employee: What is……what are my goals for next week?
Boss: Oooh, I’m sorry, the correct answer is “What things must be done before you can leave today” Maybe next time.

[I'm not exactly sure how we'll celebrate this on the blog, but perhaps a few Jeopardy! posts and quizzes can mark the day. Now...when should Jeopar-Day be?]

Two runners-up have won free back issues. First, Nate:

Try a Food that Scares You Day

Break out of your routine and try something that looks odd and you would never eat. Explore new flavors, new cultures, and perhaps a new favorite dish.

It will be the Carpe Diem Diet!

[We may celebrate this one, too. You'll be called upon to not only eat something scary, but to photograph it and send us the story.]

And Amy, who wins for letting me address this quirk…

How about National ‘What the HELL is that???’ Day.

Like today and the last few days, for instance. I keep seeing this “__LongTerm__ ” thingy post all over MF and,since I missed any indication of why it’s there, can only think to ask:

What the HELL is that?? ;-)

We’re still trying to figure this out. So far, I’ve only been able to recreate this in Safari. If anyone else is seeing sporadic occurrences of the words “_LongTerm_,” can you let me know what operating system (Windows Vista, Mac OS X, etc.) and browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.) you’re using? And if you know what might be causing it, that would obviously be even more helpful. Thanks!

I’ll be in touch with the winners about their prizes (Matt gets a t-shirt; Nate & Amy have won back issues of the magazine.) Enjoy the weekend.

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Comments (34)

  1. 4) There’s a barber shop in my town that has wireless internet. I think it’s cool, but i would never have thought of it.

    6) Back to the Future III. I was 5 and had never seen I or II, but I was able to follow along.

    posted by Trent on 9-26-2008 at 1:21 pm

  2. 1) I wasn’t technically snooping, but this sure was creepy. My freshman year roommate was taking pictures of me while I was sleeping. I had to borrow her computer and found them all in a folder on the desktop. Like 250 photos!! After I confronted her, she dropped out of school. I have no idea what happened to her..

    3) For some reason, I used to tape ‘Hangin’ w/MTV’ in the early 1990′s. I probably have a dozen tapes in my parents’ attic.

    6) ET. Oddly enough, also the last movie I saw on DVD (we watched it last week with our daughter)

    posted by sara on 9-26-2008 at 1:26 pm

  3. 2. My boyfriend gave me a pretty opal ring for my birthday last year. One day I damaged the stone and he insisted on taking it back to the jewelry store himself to get it fixed. A week went by, then two, then three, and I hadn’t seen or heard anything about the ring. One day I was putting up clothes in his closet and saw a ring box between two pillows. I got all excited because I thought it was an engagement ring. I didn’t want to look, but I couldn’t help myself. It was my opal ring, with the damaged stone still in the setting. At dinner that night I asked him if he’d heard anything from the jewelry store and he said the clerk had told him it would be a couple more weeks.
    I’ll be honest, I never confronted him. Early on he had expressed his disgust with nosy girls and I didn’t want to rock the boat, but ever since then I’ve had trouble believing him on some stuff. I wish I had never looked.

    posted by jennifer on 9-26-2008 at 1:34 pm

  4. 1) I was in my parents room looking for a hair tie a few years ago- I think I was a senior in high school. (This story turns out waaaay better than it’s starting out, I promise I didn’t find anything dirty!) anyway, I lifted up the box where my mom kept all her hair stuff and promptly dropped it. To my surprise, it had an entire bottom compartment I had never noticed and I found a bunch of love notes my dad had written my mom from 8th grade through their anniversary that year. It was so sweet.

    3) There a home video of me playing dolls in my living room floor when I’m about 5. Peter Pan (the live action one) is on in the background but its plain I’m paying no attention to it at all. Suddenly, the part where Tinkerbell is dying comes on. Dutifully, I throw my barbie down, face the TV and start clapping as hard and fast as a five year old can clap. Once tink’s health is restored, I go back to ignoring the movie and playing with my dolls.

    7) It’s not really struggling, but Andy Nelson’s BBQ in Cockeysville MD is the best place for BBQ. Ever. You’d never know from outside, but it’s AMAZING

    posted by Caitlin on 9-26-2008 at 1:35 pm

  5. 1 — My older brother was secretly writing a screenplay about our family that I found while snooping through his stuff. it was really funny… but we ridiculed him and he never finished.I guess that isn’t creepy, but it was pretty funny for my sister and me.

    4- My apartment. We use the video rental place’s wireless, which is two floors below. don’t tell.

    posted by gloria on 9-26-2008 at 1:35 pm

  6. 2) 1986 celebrity station wagon. my mom bought it new then when i turned 16 it was my turn to drive it. it was a poop brown color, at least where it wasn’t completely rusting away. it was the family car, used for countless vacations so the upholstery was covered in stains and totally worn down. when stopped at a stop sign the entire dashboard and steering wheel would violently shake. the brakes were shot from me practicing to drive in the parking lot with my sister. a rock hit the windshield years before and by this time the crack had spread all the way across. the windshield wipers made visibility worse. the backseat window went down but not up. BUT it did have the way-back seat where you got to sit backwards and make faces at the car behind you :)

    posted by ellen on 9-26-2008 at 1:54 pm

  7. * in college, my roomies and i found a wet suit & a very large dildo under the mattress of a roomate we had to kick out of our house. we weren’t really snooping, we were moving her stuff out after she refused to do it herself.

    * the first movie that i remember seeing in a theather was “Blue Lagoon” in 1980. i was five, what were my parents thinking???

    * in the late 80′s i taped MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball EVERY saturday night for years. i also have VMA award shows taped from back then. as well as other random hair band videos and interviews from the era. on a side note, my husband and i once rented The Rolling Stones’ “Cocksucker Blues” and accidentally returned one of my old Headbanger’s Ball tapes instead of the movie. yes, the store called us about it. no, we did not get my Headbanger’s Ball tape back. and yes, we were very fortunate it was not a different kind of “homemade” movie.

    posted by renis on 9-26-2008 at 1:55 pm

  8. 3) For my fifteenth birthday, my parents bought me a ride in an ultralight. It looks a lot like a go-cart with a parachute on the back. There was a camera mounted to the front and they gave me the VHS. I watched it the other day, and it’s interesting just how much the midwest really does look like a quilt.

    6) Beauty and the Beast. The scene in which the villagers attack the castle scared me a bit, and I had to crawl into my mom’s lap. My older sister and my dad were in the next theater watching Wayne’s World 2.

    posted by Kieran on 9-26-2008 at 2:03 pm

  9. 1) Most scarring thing I ever found was the stash of condoms in my parents’ bedside table at age 11, right about the age when I was old enough to know what was going on and young enough to be completely grossed out about it.

    2)A ’91 Oldsmobile Delta 88, which I owned from about ’97 to ’01. Before it was mine, a friend of the family owned it. During that time, it was stolen and someone blew holes through the roof with a shotgun (from the inside). Seven years later, the new roof leaked, steaming up the car and pouring water down onto the driver’s seat every time it rained. I kept a towel in the car to stem the tide if it started to rain when I was driving. It always blew a fuse when it rained, killing my horn and radio. It had started to mold inside by the time it was stolen again and used as the getaway car to rob a Blockbuster. Unfortunately, I got it back. I still didn’t get to get rid of it. The inside door handle started to come off, so I drove with my leg shoved against the door frame to keep it in place, the ceiling cloth was coming down, so my dad put small screws and washers up to keep it up. After about a year of this, my dad took it on a short errand, came back and announced he was getting me a new(er) car the next day.

    4) Waffle House, or possibly that burger joint in Dallas that also advertised Tuesday Biker Nights. Good burgers though.

    posted by Lindsey on 9-26-2008 at 2:04 pm

  10. 2. My first car, an ’89 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais (It was 1998 when I got it) It was donated to me by my grandparents, who go it from my great-grandmother. It had duct tape holding pieces together on the front end and the ceiling fabric was held up with staples (regular office staples). I didn’t help the poor thing once I got it. Within the first year of driving it I got in one minor and one major accident. The major one I rear-ended a classmate leaving school and crumpled the front end and killed the A/C. (No people were hurt and her car only had back bumper damage). My dad is a mechanic, so he re-built the front end with junkyard parts (not the A/C-punishment enough in Florida) but wasn’t willing to buy gray paint to touch up where it had flaked off so he used black instead and it looked like tiger stripes. Also, no power windows (adding to the fun of not having A/C in Florida) and only a radio, not even a tape deck. Oh, and it topped out at around 75 mph. It finally died the summer of 2000 while I was on my way to the Warped Tour. Smoked just started pouring out of every opening and once I pulled over and turned it off it never started again.

    3. President Bush’s speech on 9/11

    5. Christopher Moore and Chuck Palahniuk

    posted by Marta on 9-26-2008 at 2:15 pm

  11. The Burger Barn in Polson, MT. The food rocks, burgersd and sandwiches, shakes, etc. Retro music and country/Americana decor. Needs more customers.

    posted by qt314159265 on 9-26-2008 at 2:23 pm

  12. 1) I was looking for my passport in the family safety deposit box when I found divorce paperwork for someone I never knew my grandfather had been married to… for about 9 months in the early 60′s.

    2) My 1988 VW Jetta purchased with plenty of rust from 15 years of life in Hyannis, MA with 267,000 miles for $400. Drove it for a year, sold it for $225. sweet.

    3) a VHS of nothing but Sonic the Hedgehog: The animated series

    4) An ice cream shop in Southbridge, MA. Not sure who’s taking their laptops with them for ice cream.

    posted by Zach on 9-26-2008 at 2:51 pm

  13. 6) The first movie I saw in a theater was The Runaway Bride for my 17th birthday. (I had just moved to America and people in my home country never really went to movie theaters).

    So, this is a little irrelevant but I have been noticing the ‘Personal of the Day’ column thing on the right hand side of the screen for a few months now and am totally baffled. Since when did Mental_Floss become a dating site? And where are all these folks turning their info in….and why???!!

    posted by Pink Coat on 9-26-2008 at 3:09 pm

  14. 2) Ah, I fondly remember the days of my Mitsubeagle. I had inherited an Eagle Summit from my stepdad. basically a generic crappy little sedan. Problem was, it’d been in 3 head on accidents prior to it becoming mine. It was on it’s 3rd engine, and ate a quart of oil a week. The odd name? After the 3rd accident, the mechanic, a friend of my stepdads, discovered that the Mitsubishi Galant was the exact same car. So they cobbled the front end of a Mitsubishi onto the back end of my Eagle. When I got a parking ticket once, in the space for “type of car”, it had “mitsub” crossed out, then “eagle” crossed out, finally left with a question mark. thus, the Mitsubeagle.

    Because of all of the accidents it’d been in, the doors didn’t align properly anymore. So first the back left door stopped working, then the back right. not only would then not open, when they would randomly open on their own, it’d tend to happen at high speed on the highway. So finally I roped the door handles together with strong rope criss-crossing the back seat. Still managed to shove 5 friends back there once, rope and all.

    Finally, the last week I had it, the front passenger door started to go out on me. The door was falling off the hinges. The last straw, my final day of ownership (we had already sold it to one of the guys with the moving company moving us to Texas from New England), I hit a pothole and heard a strange noise. I looked over at the door, and it was completely off it’s hinge, staying on the car solely by luck and the fact that I’d locked the door. I could see the ground between the car frame and the door.

    It was a GREAT car.

    posted by Jenny on 9-26-2008 at 4:38 pm

  15. 4) Not wireless, but on a boat trip from southeast Alaska to Seattle, we pulled into Port McNiell, BC, a small town on the northern end of Vancouver Island. I lugged my laundry to the laundromat and discovered a computer with internet access there for customers to use. What a nice surprise!

    posted by JMB on 9-26-2008 at 5:03 pm

  16. 1) My sister-in-law was in the hospital and my brother asked me to get a few things at his house for him. I went to his drawers to grab some socks and such and found something I still can’t get over. I found three enema bags with many nozzles, a collection of strap-ons and a video camera. Since I wasn’t in a hurry (not now anyway) I looked at the video and REALLY wish I didn’t. I always thought my sister-in-law was hot but WOW!!!
    2) I bought a 1973 VW Beetle with 165,000 miles for $350 in 1980. I sold it in 1988 for $500 and over 320,000 miles on it.
    3) Most intriguing tape? See #1 above.
    4) While SCUBA diving off of the Egyptian coast I saw a sign someone placed on the bottom advertising free wireless service. I never tried to see if it was true.
    5) Steven King- actually written by him and not some “as told by Steven King” junk.
    6) “The Sting”- saw it in a drive-in.

    posted by Carl123 on 9-26-2008 at 7:07 pm

  17. 2) Not my car, but my dad’s. I think it was a 1970ish mustang. The door on the front passager side didn’t work properly and you had to crawl in and out of the back seat and out one of the back doors

    3)The VHS tape I treasure the most is one that my brother gave me one Christmas. It was old family footage (early 1970s) of our family. He took the old films my dad had and transferred them to VHS.

    6)I can’t remember if the first movie I ever saw was Omen II or Star Wars. Whichever one came out first. I was still a teenager when Omen II came out and my Mom, a horror movie fan, was dying to see it but Dad was out of town so she coxed me into going. I was scared to death of crows for quite awhile after that.

    BTW Jennifer, I used to be married to a man who had his little secrets and lies which turned into big ones (notice I said Used to be married). Don’t want to give you any advice, but if I went totally insane and started dating again I’d confront him with anything that bothers me. There may be a perfectly innocent explaination, but if you let it slide it will just eat you up.

    posted by Carol on 9-26-2008 at 7:11 pm

  18. 1. When I was a teenager I was looking through boxes of my parents old stuff and found a polariod of my 20 year old stick thin (at the time) Mom in a tiny brown bikini. After that, they could never say my swimsuits were too small.

    2. My first car in 1997 was a 1985 Chevy S-10, 4 wheel drive, extended cab truck. My dad LOVED it at the time even though the A/C didn’t work and the upholestery was coming off. The engine and I had major issues, the worst of which left me stranded on I-35 West between Waco & Ft. Worth. The sad thing is that my parents still have the truck sitting (undriveable) in the back driveway.

    3. There is still video floating around that my aunt taped when I was 8 of my cousins and me singing (off key) and dancing to a Disney record (a la Hey Mickey). That may be more embarassing than the naked baby in the bathtub pictures…

    recaptcha: Spears obviously

    posted by Christi on 9-26-2008 at 7:29 pm

  19. 6. I have a vivid memory of sitting in the balcony of the Plaza movie theater in Kansas City watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I think I was only 5 or 6…the white rabbit terrified me! But, I also remember enjoying it (it had bright colors and funny, weird cartoons).

    posted by Lissa on 9-26-2008 at 8:33 pm

  20. 5. I look forward to anything Jasper Fforde writes. He has two series about book and nursery rhyme characters in the “real” world. His Thursday Next series is genius! The footnoterphone is a thing of wonder!! (The Cheshire Cat is the Grand Librarian.) You have to read his books!

    posted by Lissa on 9-26-2008 at 8:40 pm

  21. 2) I owned a 1977 Canary Yellow Ford Mustang II. It wasn’t one of the good Mustnags but the redesigned version with a 4 cylinder engine. Jason, you would understnad, I couldn’t get above 40 mph going west on Rt 280 up the hill in West Orange.

    3) I still have and watch the tape I made of the Rangers Game 7 win in the 1994 Stanley Cup finals.

    5) I just picked up the 5th in SM Stirling’s Change series. It’s called the Scourge of God

    6) The original Star Wars in 1977 when I was 11 years old.

    7) Jason – Where in Roxbury is the Planet Smoothie, Rt 46 or rt 10? My vote would go to Pasquales Pizza in Boonton because my neighbor owns it and I’m sure he’d like the free ad.

    posted by Bill on 9-26-2008 at 10:30 pm

  22. Jason,

    I’m so happy that I could help you in ‘addressing this quirk’ – and that,in doing so, I have garnered myself a free issue of the Floss :-D

    Oh, and btw… I also notice this quirk when I am using the one of my two computers that uses SAFARI (nearly all of the comments to this particular entry were riddled w/“_LongTerm_,”). I am currently on the computer that uses FIREFOX where there is nary a sign of “_LongTerm_ “

    posted by Amy on 9-26-2008 at 10:53 pm

  23. 2) The worst car I’ve ever owned (out of two) was a ’93 Chevy Lumina, light blue and falling apart. It looked bad from the start, but I guess it didn’t help that I always put off changing the oil until later.

    6) I don’t know what my first movie theater experience was, but the first one I remember was seeing Toy Story.

    Also, JeoparDay should probably be July 22nd (Trebek’s birthday)

    posted by Zach on 9-27-2008 at 2:15 am

  24. Wireless…The Barnsider in Sugarloaf, NY. They don’t even know they have it. I think it’s part of a wireless food/drink order taking method they use. I asked the waitress last week if they had WiFi and she said no. I went to my car and got my laptop and turned it on and they did. I asked the waitress why she said no and she admitted she had no idea what Wifi was and thought I was asking about some kind of liquor.

    posted by Pha-Q on 9-27-2008 at 7:53 am

  25. First movie: Benji when I was 7

    No car I owned could be classified as crappy in my opinion. They all got me from one point to another which is all I could ever want from them.

    Wireless: The Barnsider in Sugarloaf, NY

    posted by Mike on 9-27-2008 at 9:08 am

  26. My first car was a VW bug. I don’t remember the year, but I do remember that my best friend had to sit behind me in the back seat to keep it from shaking. I had some type of wrench device clamped to the window so that I could get the window down. No A/C of course. No heat either, so we kept a couple blankets with us at all times. The funny thing is, we had a rare “blizzard” and that bug was one fo the few that would start and make its way through the snow!

    posted by Karen on 9-27-2008 at 9:27 am

  27. 1) Oy. A veritable anthology of R-rated chat logs from my dad to various teenage gals in India. They sent pictures of themselves; he sent pictures of me (his at the time 23-year-old son). I wonder if they have “To Catch a Predator” in Mumbai…

    3) Game 7 of the 1991 World Series. I still get chills when a pile of white pixels that looks like Kent Hrbek turns the 3-2-3 double play. “Out there… OUT THERE!”

    4) This uber-skeevy nightclub called 1120 in Birmingham. It’s on all the time, and it’s powerful enough to reach the Starbucks a block away.

    posted by Sri on 9-27-2008 at 10:40 am

  28. 4) A few weekends ago, I was in Wilmington, NC and saw a sign for free wireless in the window at Hooters. Maybe all Hooters have free wireless, but I figure that when most people go there, it’s to look at something other than their email.

    posted by m on 9-27-2008 at 11:28 am

  29. Almost forgot…

    I agree with Pink Coat. Why are there personal ads on floss? They really don’t fit with the rest of the site.

    posted by m on 9-27-2008 at 11:31 am

  30. 1. I did one of those public record searches on someone who used to be involved with a relative of mine but had had some trouble with drugs, etc. I was hoping to find that she was doing better, but instead I was shocked to see that she had been arrested for prostitution (which I’m sure was to pay for the drug habit). It was public information, but I still felt like it was something I probably shouldn’t know about unless someone involved decided to tell me about it.

    3. I used to tape every episode of Buffy, Angel, Felicity, and Dawson’s Creek off the WB when they were on (when I was in high school). Sometimes I would bring them in to school the next day and my friends and I would watch them in the TV room at lunchtime (especially if one or the other of us had missed it), but mostly they just took up room for no reason. This was before DVDs, so I guess I thought I was preserving them for posterity or something.

    6. I can’t believe people remember the first movie they saw in a theater. I remember going to movies when I was little, but anything before I was about 5 kind of runs together.

    7. I have no idea how these places are doing business-wise, but I’ll use any opportunity I can to plug Rice & Co., which is an Asian fusion restaurant, and Ethos Vegan Kitchen which, as the name implies, is a vegan restaurant. Both are in Orlando and are sooo good.

    posted by Celeste M. on 9-28-2008 at 2:43 am

  31. 2. Right now I drive a 92 Ford Tempo. It’s horrible. It’s not a complete clunker, but it gets between 15 and 20 mpg. That’s horrible in itself, but especially when you consider that the car I had before it was a Geo Metro that got upwards of 40 mpg! I’m not too fond of the strange knobs and buttons Ford put in: to turn on the headlights, you have to pull out a knob; to turn on the windshield wipers or the air conditioning, you have to twist something. It’s all very strange and hard to describe. I’m also not too fond of the automatic seat belts, but they aren’t the worst thing.

    3. I know you’re not talking about bought VHS tapes, but the cartoon Bunnicula tape I have tops all the recorded-off-tv things I have. I don’t think my family was much into home videos, because I don’t think we have any.

    5. Unfortunately for me, all the authors I would be anxious about are dead.

    7. The only place in town that I would have wanted to save went out of business before I was born. There was a theatre here called The Vogue that used to play midnight screenings of things and such. They preserved the sign (but not the marquee or the ticket booth) but it’s some kind of upscale clothing store now.

    posted by Jenny on 9-28-2008 at 9:11 am

  32. 1. One day when I was about 15, I was in my grandparents spare bedroom (where grandpa slept because he snored). I noticed a stack of magazines that were face down. I looked to see what they were. They were Playboys, that dirty 74 year old man (Hahaha).

    2. My worst car was a 78 Buick LeSabre, bought in 1986. It was cheap, and the body was in very good condition, but it was one problem after another (I won’t go into listing it all). The last of which was that it got that I couldn’t turn the heat off, and the A/C didn’t work. When I tried to give it away, two charities said “No thank you!”

    p.s. The 1978 LeSabre’s were known to catch fire(in engine compartment).

    -note to Jenny: when those automatic seatbelts go bad, they are expensive to fix, and the law might say they have to work.

    posted by Tdave on 9-29-2008 at 1:47 am

  33. 2) A 1985 Pontiac Sunbird, which my friends and I cleverly dubbed “The Suckbird.” It looked OK from the outside (despite being about 12 years old when I purchased it), but the thing was a total money pit. I think I paid $900 for it and after owning it for about six months, I had probably put twice that much into repairs. The transmission went after about a month, it leaked just about every fluid I put into it other than gas, and I used to make everyone in the car lean forward as we went up a hill as if that would give it some kind of magical horsepower boost.

    The Suckbird met its sad demise on a crisp October night on the street in front of the house my brother and I were renting. A drunk driver couldn’t quite make the bend and instead slammed into the side of my car, pushing it up onto the curb and bending the frame. On the positive note, we did get to meet the transvestite who had been renting the place across the street. He came running out in a bathrobe and slippers, looking quite disheveled and without his wig. He was glad that no one had been hurt because he “didn’t want to have to give anyone mouth to mouth.”

    7. The Oaks theater in Oakmont, PA. It’s one of the few art house theaters left in the Pittsburgh area.

    posted by dying alive on 9-29-2008 at 9:09 am

  34. When my dad died, I found a VHS tape of Dale Earnhardt’s funeral. I haven’t watched it, so I don’t know if that was something that was broadcast on television or what. A few years ago, I realized that the father of a friend of mine was also a Dale fan and offered him the tape, but he already had it. Go figure.

    posted by Karen on 9-29-2008 at 2:44 pm

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