MCU does a good job. Iron Man is supposed to be science based, and Thor is a Norse god.

That’s as much a superstition as anything else.

Have you got a shred of empirical evidence to back it up?

I heard a similar idea; you should never gift someone you like a knife because it will sever the friendship.

Bart Simpson has been played by a woman his entire existence

Actually the reason most cultures used a seven day week is found in nature.

There are five planets visible in the night sky, plus the Moon and the Sun.

https://youtu.be/JZG1pp1K1QQ

If you want to go down a rabbithole, look up the early days of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.

Hoover got the job because he was a bureaucrat, not a lawman. He would have his people build giant files by hand on anyone of interest.

Reminds me.

I was not there, but a buddy of mine worked as a moving man. That day’s client had done something similar, except he’d put the coins in a glass 5 gallon bottle, the kind that were used for water coolers. The client decided to show off for the movers and made to hoist the bottle up onto his shoulder. Bottom came out and coins went everywhere.

Hadn’t thought of that story in a while. Thanks

Picking up pennies.

True story.

This is back in the 1960s. A Texas bank is putting up a new building and sets up a temporary office in a trailer. There’s a one ton safe in the trailer. A crook figures that a dozen strong guys would have no problem lifting the safe by hand and carrying it out. He puts together a team and they do the job. Something goes wrong and they end up dropping the safe. One crook’s finger is caught under the safe. He manages to get away, but when the police lift the safe they find his finger tip. And yes, they had his fingerprints on file.

Jumping in to say that drugs affect different people in different ways.

If you’re given a new drug, it’s a good idea to keep a log of all your responses, even things that seem minor.

I’ve already heard urban legends about people buying fake stuff on E-Bay [empty iPhone boxes, etc]

When he ‘wrote’ the book he did an unbelievably bad deal with the co-author. That guy got his name on the cover and half the royalties. He’s never stopped talking about what a chump Donnie is.

This has been a favorite ploy of the GOP for decades. If they get elected they put in some blatantly illegal/unConstitutional law and then force the opposition to pay to fight it. Because the GOP is the ‘government’ they can force the taxpayers to subsidize the circus while the Left has to bleed money to pay for lawyers.

I grew up seeing the old Italian men drinking it near the bocci courts.

It’s made in Brooklyn, USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11/22/63

The name of the book is “11/22/63.” There was also a made for TV adaptation.

Most of the comics these days are owned by mega-companies. They could afford to start selling the physical comics for $1.00. When I was very young, being able to buy my own comics with money I’d earned meant a lot to me. It’s how I learned to budget and manage money. A kid would need $100.00 a week to buy as many comics as I used to get.

In the comics, it’s canon that Batman runs a site called “Bruce Wayne is Batman.”

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Buy this stuff. two bottles will give you heart palpitations.

https://www.manhattanspecial.com/home/

I’m getting upvotes, so apparently we aren’t the only ones who figured it out.

“The Big Time” by Fritz Leiber. The Change War is being fought on every planet in the universe from the moment of the Big Bang to the end of time. Two sides, the Spiders and the Snakes, are trying to rewrite history for their own purposes. The Law Of Conservation of Reality states that Time will oppose any change, so you have to fight the same battles over and over and over in order to get any changes.

Fun book.