If you're 55 or under, you can join the reserves today.

How old are you? If you aren't too old, there is nothing stopping you from joining the reserves right now

That worked well.

No, you'll come off as insufferable. And why would you say "cold turkey"?

I'd actually pay to see that.

What's the "zio" machine? Can you expand on that?

True, but I fear possibly irrelevant.

I first read him around the time the first film of the Peter Jackson trilogy came out. So ca. 2001, Every teenage hippie was reading LOTR when I was a teen myself in the early 1970s. That was reason enough, then, to not read him.

Last night's fight between Taylor and Serrano for example!