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Don't give them any ideas...

Well, it's a Southern thing. ;-)

And thank you for sharing that...

They had a series of them last year, I think. One with a wolf, the eagle one you saw, a couple of others I'm not recalling off hand. The reminded me of the original Alien movie...probably not what they were going for.

As a Mopar guy, I think the people behind Dukes of Hazzard should rot in Hell for all the Dodge Chargers they destroyed.

This is just the latest in a line of recent commercials I hate - why do advertisers think that showing close ups of someone stuffing food in their face will get me to buy their product?

Three... And I'll second your Scalia sentiments.

I like that commercial, but if she didn't say her name into the phone at the beginning, I'm not sure I would have identified her, probably wouldn't have paid attention to the hold music, and not really gotten the joke. Flo is, as always, annoying...

Not by much...

I assumed it was supposed to be part of the clue.

Me too! I love that scene!

I think it may be some algorithm that pulls the original story as a "related link" to something else, but people don't realize that. Most of the old obits that have been posted recently have the original publication date listed on the page, so it's easy to see when it was published, but that apparently gets overlooked.

I started to second guess myself, because I knew the movie came out around that time, but started thinking the novel was earlier than that. Not that I could think of another answer in any case.

I think I saw Brattinella on a can just last week... ;-)

I don't remember if Jon said it (might have been Rachel Maddow) but the best line I heard about the video was "Your campaign is in trouble when you don't even carry a majority of your immediate family."

And it's something you can say in polite company without getting smacked...

I learned a new word today. That's not something I ever noticed about Willie.

I was amazed that it was a FJ question, and stunned that they both got it wrong. Even if you haven't played chess, it's the same a a checkers board, and I suspect most people have seen one of those.

I have a good friend who was a senior staffer for Al D'Amato, starting when he was a local Long Island politician and throughout his tenure in the Senate. He was telling me once that back in the day, D'Amato and Ted Kennedy would fight tooth and nail on the floor of the Senate, then get together at Joe Biden's house on Friday nights and work out their difference over a game of cards. That never happens any more - the two sides won't talk to one another, never mind sit down and work out compromises.

I believe SC is the last state that flies that flag in any sort of official, government-controlled or sponsored manner. Yes, it appears all over, but it is primarily by private individuals/organizations.

You haven't read too many YouTube comments, have you? I could only imagine the sort of vile tripe an ad like this would generate from certain dark places of the Internet.

This may belong in an "I watch too much TV thread" but I refuse to get in an elevator with a pregnant woman.

No. I've heard of the movie, have never seen it. I didn't remember McConaughey was in it, and had no idea of the storyline or that it included an actual Lincoln automobile.

I haven't heard that in ages! Thanks...I think.

Not sure if this is the place for it, but Season 3 DVDs are shipping, mine are on the way from Amazon. I don't have HBO, so I only saw a few episodes of the first couple of seasons when they originally aired when my cable company had a free weekend. I bought Season 1 & 2 last fall, and spent four long nights watching them all - coffee was my best friend at work that week! Can't wait for these to arrive - I have the coffee pot on standby!