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Yeah, anything that leaves people stuck overnight seems like a bad situation.

There was a thing in the DC area that was afterward referred to as "Commutageddon," when the snow A) was preceded by rain, to wash the melt-treatments off and B) arrived just as evening rush hour was starting. It took like eight hours for my friend and I to get home--and we knew someone who...

Dunno if someone's already answered this, but even by Guards! GuardsI Rincewind is at most a very occasional presence.

Honestly I think I gave up on Koontz for good sometime in the 1990s, though I saw inside a couple-three of his books since, when I was working at a studio recording audiobooks. If you read one of his books, it's probably OK. If you read some number of his books, especially if he wrote them...

I've driven all the way across North Dakota (from west to east, on I-94) and my dad was from North Dakota so I've spent time other than that, there, and I can confirm.

As someone who drove from suburban Maryland to Big Bend National Park ten months ago, I was going to have a response, before I re-read you and saw you'd included Texas. :LOL: I might include parts of Montana and/or the Dakotas in that, as well, though I don't know the geography of the Central...

Also "Spot the post-breakup song." (Though, to be fair, sometimes that's a vein the songwriter just hasn't played out yet.)

I haven't tried it--or even seen it--but it doesn't seem unpalatable to me (other than the coleslaw, which I find disgusting in any context). It actually seems as though it'd be pretty tasty, if not exactly what most people will think of as "pizza."

I'm sure you already know this, but trends happen. Also, it seemed more likely then that we'd do something (like, as a single event) stupid, as opposed to now where it looks more as though we've been doing something stupid for a few decades and lo!

Upgrade carried me along just fine, mostly. There were some things that didn't work for me while I was reading, and it fell apart for me more when I thought about it after reading it. Sounds as though maybe he's just an author who doesn't work for me, which is at least as much about me as it...

Yeah, you seem like the sort to wear clothes that are more imaginary than real. :LOL:

Yet it happens all the time.

Yeah, the fact you were writing them yourself seems likely to have been the most important thing about them, and rhyme and meter have their upsides. And I agree with you about the difference you're pointing at; I've been known to state strongly that song lyrics have different enough goals from...

Yeah, rhyme isn't inherently bad, it's just not inherently good, either; it's a technique, and it's optional. Well, deciding to rhyme should probably happen pretty early in the composition process, anyway, and maybe you should have a reason other than you think poems must rhyme (which is...

Not this thread, not even this site: You can always tell the non-poets, because they think rhyming is clever.

In the movie The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, said brother refers at least once to his brother "Sheer Luck Holmes." Something something great minds.

Fair enough. At the grocery stores I go to, they're in 1.5-pound bags, bigger potatoes are in 3- or 5- pound bags. Or you can purchase them loose, though not usually the really small ones.

That at least seems plausible. I'm willing to bet you'll find small red potatoes in 1.5-pound packages, though. :LOL:

Oh, I'll admit to my pedantry, I was just putting it here rather than in the thread. There are times it's useful to know the differences between words, but one shouldn't let that knowledge get in the way of communication.

Also unrelated to anything in this thread (I think): That phrase you carefully chose, I do not like what it means.