The Canadian exp could have helped. The (conservative) government spent a few months publishing info ahead of the change when we dropped the penny, and it was essentially a non-issue. Of course it's harder in a country where a good chunk of the pop'n doesn't understand rounding to the nearest 5

My local Dipping Drivers Anonymous has a couple of openings right now

AI is so much better at demonstrating the Murray Gell-Mann effect than we humans ever were

Someone set Chloe up with the dude who last month asked if people in the distant '90s actually had a few dozen telephone numbers they could just summon from memory at will

Welcome to my data-cleaning world ("cleansing" by some Brits). I never noticed this, but if I look at the wiki entries for Anna Seghers' novel "Transit", the first word, this setting, has the ending 's' in English, but not French. Awesome book, btw. Then watch Petzold's word-for-word adapt'n

Only a matter of a year or two before that station starts subjecting you to Nickelback

There used to be a Sprouts-like store called "The Market" in Bellingham WA but it became a Whole Foods about 15 years ago. They had a good sandwich bar, but after it closed I discovered the Old World Deli. Better to support local anyway.

Sounds about right. The internet doesn't sound too happy about them, but on the + side there's still competition to Kroger/Albertons/Haggen and Whole Foods. If I ever get to one I'll go buy a frozen meal to microwave.

We thought it was fictional but a quick search shows not only is it real, but one in a suburban Albuquerque neighborhood has been shut down due to a pest infestation. Easier to find the rats' nests and roach eggs when the shelves are emptied.

This is why the French invented « and » guillemet characters (called "chevrons" by Americans prob because of cars). So I would make it Trey said, "I really hope you like the «Sneakin' Sally» we played."

As a bonus, I assume guillemets nest. Why not?

Japan brought in 99-year mortgages during the Tokyo real estate bubble of the late 1980s. I recently read the country is finally recovering.

Is this my wife's alias?

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Time to go bop some ICE men with this here lollipop

How is it I remember this scene almost exactly as it went when I saw it during its first run (forgot the aunt lived in Wichita) but I don't remember the movie I went to see last week (and I forget the title - see)?

The one below 1st. And this Vancouverite gets Pike Place, Pike St., and Pine St. mixed up all the time. Did the founders of Seattle run out of names when they were laying out the city?

Right. I was imagining a Seattle where that street outside the market was car-free from say noon through midnight every day