I see some hands over here...
I really like the addition of Episode Names to the Simpsons Quote of the Day. I could recognize most of them anyway, but the context helps for the stumpers.
Also, the Mall of America up here had one of those Smart Mob events a couple of weeks ago. It was leaked in the newspaper a week ahead of time (the existence of the event, not the specifics), so there were a bunch of cops there, but no real incidents. At the appointed time the crowd briefly acted like robots, then they all left to go to some electronics store to watch Lord of the Rings on the big screen.
I like the idea of spontaneous guerilla goofiness, but having everyone expecting something takes the wind out of its sales. (And I'm firmly against bugging those poor folks who work in retail. Or anyone who is working actually.)
-MMM
Leave it to the "fraught" gift shop at Cracker Barrel to be the source of the mislabelled postcards. Of course, you reckon some sneaky UK booster is just trying to pull one over on Louisville to tweak Coach Pitino?
Regarding the left lane - it's a problem in other places, rules or no rules. Engineers and highway officials can design roads for logical traffic flow, but estimating the percentages of "lane hogs" is obviously a bit trickier. The "pragmatism" of using both lanes makes sense in many traffic situations, even during traffic tie-ups (unless you have to merge into another lane). Most of the driving public attempts to keep a sane speed, but the drivers on each far end of the bell curve are the ones gumming it up for everyone else and leading to fraught transportation columns.
Near as I can tell, the bourbon that burned up was the regular stuff and not Booker's. Thank God for extremely large blessings...
Noel
Craig, dear, I'm relatively certain that fully half of the people who come to the information desk on any given day ARE asking for fake books.
It doesn't help that a healthy percentage of them can't think of any other way to describe the book than vague terms such as "red cover", "female author", "Oprah mentioned it once", and -- I'm not making this up; someone said this just days ago! -- "my friend has it".
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