Sooo, person below me

[Senpai]

I do not! In fact, I don't really watch TV at all.

PBM, what's your favorite guilty pleasure TV show?

[Tripler]

Originally Posted by Senpai

I do not! In fact, I don't really watch TV at all.

PBM, what's your favorite guilty pleasure TV show?

It was Lower Decks but I finished it all, so I switched to Beavis & Butt-Head, which I finished too. Now it's back episodes of Antiques Roadshow.

Tripler
PBM: Ever hear of Svengoolie? Do you watch him on Saturday nights too?

[Jaglavak]

Oh. I thought that was a recipe with mozzarella and angel hair pasta and leftover meatballs.

PBM, Is anything you own a quad?

[JackieLikesVariety]

I have quadraceps in both legs...and four wheels on each car. so, yes?*

PBM: what your favorite Kevin Bacon movie?




*and I know a woman (she used to lurk here) who has 4 sons all with one pregnancy. efficient!

[What Exit?]

I guess Animal House, he's the young ROTC student. I think it is his second movie.

PBM: What's your favorite John Cusack movie?

[Mr. Plumbean]

First I have to tell you my Kevin Bacon connection. I know the guy who played the drug dealer in Footloose! Apparently they are still friends (in truth I know his husband better, we used to both have the same literary agent).

God, there are a lot of good John Cusack movies to choose from, but Better Off Dead is a classic and the first that comes to mind. Incidentally, the woman who wrote "Must Love Dogs," made into perhaps the WORST John Cusack movie, *also* was represented by that agent.

PBM have you ever been to a Broadway show?

[JackieLikesVariety]

YES! I saw 42nd street and I loved it on my one and only trip to NYC

PBM: same question

[mjmlabs]

Nope. Boring answer, but this needs a nudge.

PBM, seen any good movies lately?

[Jaglavak]

I wouldn't call it a timeless classic, but 'Nobody' is a decent action flick consisting mostly of excellent fight scenes tied together with a smattering of plot.

PBM, Have all the really good movies been made already?

[Senpai]

I don't think so, no! With movies like Everything, Everywhere, All At Once coming out very very very recently, amongst others, I think new brilliant minds are going to come into the limelight! What's accepted as brilliant in the future might not be to your tastes, but alas. 'Tis how the world works. I'm not really a movie person, though, so... grains of salt should be taken!

Additionally, art forms rarely ever die. Chances are even if the mainstream is filled with something different, *someone, somewhere* is making an indie film or something similar in the style you like! And then it'll become even more special and sentimental and nostalgic.

PBM, your genuine opinion on the BEST classic horror film. (Bias is allowed.)

[Mr. Plumbean]

The Silence of the Lambs

PBM What is the best silent film of all time?

[What Exit?]

Safety Last! starring Harold Lloyd. Can find it here on the wiki page oddly enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_Last!


PBM: What is the best cartoon short?

[mjmlabs]

Gonna hafta go with Duck Amuck (1953).

PBM, are you Team Disney or Team WB?

[What Exit?]

Team WB for Shorts of course. Team Disney for movies.

PBM: D&D or Monopoly?

[Mr. Plumbean]

These days, I'll take Monopoly because it's not as big a commitment. Also if you actually play by the rules it's a fun game that is over an hour or so. My family has had fun with the spin off games like Pokemon Monopoly and Zelda Monopoly.

PBM Pokemon or Zelda?

[Senpai]

POKEMON! Zelda is great, but not my kind of game.

PBM, what's your video game of choice?

[What Exit?]

Age of Wonders Shadow Magic

PBM: Buffy, X-files or Magicians?

[NoClueBoy]

Even my mom calls me Mulder

PBM: if you could supersize one of the classic 5 senses for yorself, which one?

[Swammerdami]

If you'd asked me a few decades ago, I'd have said sense of smell. Who wouldn't want to be able to detect the slightest change in appropriately-gendered pheremones?
But ask me now, and I'll go with sense of sight. I'm tired of fetching a magnifying glass to read the fine print of medicine or even microwave directions. And it would be sweet to be able to drive at night again.


PBM: What is the sixth-best rock song of all time?

[Mr. Plumbean]

Kashmir by Led Zeppelin

PBM do you play the Wordle every day?

[What Exit?]

Never. Just not my thing I guess.

PBM: Do you pay for newspaper delivery?

[NoClueBoy]

Is there an app for that? I stopped my last Sunday only delivery about 6 yrs ago. Printed coupons are worthless anymore

PBM:

Do you have a Ring or Blink doorbell?

[Senpai]

I do not!! Might get one when I move to my new apartment in a few months.

PBM, how many apartments have you lived in throughout your life?

[What Exit?]

3 apartments, 4 houses now. When I was little, we lived in an apartment up in NYC, I shared one with 3+ friends in San Diego and then my wife and I had an apartment for 2 years with easy access to the train. Navy housing is hard to qualify, barracks, effectively dorm rooms and then the berthing on the USS Ranger. But overall 45 years in 4 houses. We're on our third, 2 years in.

PBM: How many cars have you owned?

[Mr. Plumbean]

I'm on my third, I guess. It feels like I forgot one but nope. I didn't drive until after college, and I went a few years without a car. The current care is ten years old, thinking of getting on the waiting list for a new one since I do drive a lot these days.

PBM: Who let the dogs out?

[Jaglavak]

Your car did, don't you remember?

PBM, What car should Plumbane buy next?

[mjmlabs]

A 1970 Plymouth GTX with the 426 Hemi.

Here's one, so he can keep an eye out (although this one has the 440 Six-Pack, if the hood scoop badging is to be believed):



PBM, if money and sustainability were ignored, what would be your dream car? (No points for guessing mine.)

[Mr. Plumbean]

that car would not fit in my garage.

a luxery sedan. maybe an audi. I'd test drive a few in this fantasy.

pbm if you could scale up one room in your house which would it be? You can also add a room if you don't have the room you want to improve.

[Jaglavak]

I would add an attached greenhouse to the east, south, and west sides of the shack. Basically a wraparound porch with a ground cover floor. In winter, the outside wall would be polycarbonate panels in lightweight frames mounted on a french cleat for quick removal. In summer those would be replaced with bug screen and shade cloth as needed. Winter salad greens in pots along the south wall, hot tub in the corner, brick BBQ near the kitchen door, smoking lounge out back. Tube type skylights in the house to prevent dark cave syndrome. On a sunny winter day, the south wall would collect about 15 kW of solar heat and warm the house to about 40 degrees above outdoors. As unfinished space it would not add to the taxable square footage.


PBM, Did you know that Honda once made a motorcycle with oval pistons?

[Mr. Plumbean]

No, but if you asked me what shape pistons usually are I would shrug. My car is magical. It works because I have a magic button.

PBM are you in the swath of states expecting a ridiculous amount of snow this week?

[Detroit Hoser]

Yes, likely in the form of another snow/ice storm. Last week we got a layer of ice with a half inch of deceptively innocent fluffy snow on top. Usually my back hurts from shoveling; this time it hurts because I did that wacky "whuuuuOOHoooowhoooa" thing we all do when we're trying to capture our balance amidst going ass over applecart on the ice. I think that can wrench a muscle worse than actually falling. I can't wait to do it again in two days. Woohoo.

PBM, what do you use to help the pain after killing your back with a snow shovel?

[What Exit?]

I use the snowblower and have my 20-something kids do the shovel work. When I use a shovel I am extremely careful as my back sucks and when it goes out it can be for weeks. So far we had a warm January and it is looking like the warmest February on record for Central Jersey.

PBM: How do you get motivated to lose weight?

[thorny locust]

I don't. I used to get motivated to lose weight; then I realized that every time I did so, I wound up gaining the weight back plus twenty pounds, even though I was still eating less than I'd been eating when I weighed the twenty pounds less. So I quit going on weight loss diets, and the gain tapered off to negligible. I'm still fat, but at least I'm not going to wind up unable-to-move-around fat.

PBM, have you been having an extraordinarily warm February for your area? I'm in upstate New York and we've been above freezing almost every day of the month.

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plumbean

My car is magical. It works because I have a magic button pat her on the dashboard and tell her she's a good car.

Correction. Don't ever skip this key bit of maintenance, unless you want a transmission breakdown on the 394 on a Friday afternoon.

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by mjmlabs

A 1970 Plymouth GTX with the 426 Hemi.

Here's one, so he can keep an eye out (although this one has the 440 Six-Pack, if the hood scoop badging is to be believed):



PBM, if money and sustainability were ignored, what would be your dream car? (No points for guessing mine.)

Another Dodge Omni. My first one could do 0-60 faster than a stock Trans-Am: 9.9 for the TM, I did it in 9.3. I bought a stopwatch just to try that. It's top speed was only 115, but, damn, it was impressive off the line. My next two cars were used ones, since they stopped making them two years after I bought mine new, but they were just as fast off the line.

[Tripler]

I'm not sure where we are in this thread.

Tripler
PBM: What was the question?

[silenus]

Something about Miracle Whip. I think.


PBM: What's your opinion on salad cream?

[Mr. Plumbean]

Sorry, those two words do not go together.

PBM What did silenus mean to say?

[Flying Saucerian]

Maybe he was referring to Jello Salad.

PBM, your opinion of Jello salad?

[silenus]

Grandma's Lime Green Jello Salad




PBM: I've been eating a lot of cole slaw lately - what's your dressing for slaw?

[Jaglavak]

Um, whatever my aunt puts on it at the annual 4th of July BBQ, because thats the only time I eat that stuff. I'm a kraut guy myself.

PBM, Is slaw gross or what?

[thorny locust]

Depends on the slaw. Some examples are excellent; some are indeed gross; most are kind of meh, I don't want more than three bites of that.

PBM, have you been having an extraordinarily warm February for your area? I'm in upstate New York and we've been above freezing almost every day of the month.

[Senpai]

Not for the area, I don't think, but unnaturally warm for me. (Lives in Memphis, born and raised in Detroit.)

PBM, same question!

[mjmlabs]

Yup, ahistorically mild here in Southern New England ... aside from that polar vortex intrusion a coupla weeks ago when it was insanely cold for something like 36 hours. Almost as if the historical climate patterns have been altered somehow; odd, that, eh?

PBM, was Alky driving a stock Omni or an Omni GLHS? 'Cause I never took my Plymouth Horizon (cross-badged Omni) to the strip, it seemed underpowered to me ... but I was used to GM big blocks at the time, so who knows?

[Tripler]

I like BIG BLOCKS and I cannot lie,
an' other drivers can't deny.
When a car rolls up with an itty-bitty four,
my V8 gets sprung!

Baby got hatchback.

Tripler
PBM: Got a song in yer head?

[Mr. Plumbean]

I do now.

PBM did you ever dial 1 900 MIXALOT?

[Rebo]

No! I didn't know that was a thing. Is it part of the song?

I live in SE Texas and it is unusually warm here for February. It was 80° yesterday - it's typically 60ish this time of year. I'm skeered of how hot it might get this summer.

As for cole slaw - I use Marie's cole slaw dressing and it is the best!

PBM - what's for breakfast? My stomach has @Borborygmi .

[silenus]

Probably a couple of tacos. I'll hit Del Taco on the way to school. They've killed off the breakfast items I liked, so now the order is just 2 Del Tacos + sour cream. Then I'm good until dinner.

My go-to cole slaw dressing is a 50/50 mix of Marie's and Duke's.

PBM - Dinner for breakfast or breakfast for dinner?

[What Exit?]

Yes.

PBM: Omelets or Waffles?

[JackieLikesVariety]

anything with eggs for breakfast, waffles (carbs) for dinner/supper.

PBM: is the weather freakish hot or freakishly cold where you are?