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I was intentionally sidestepping that bit

Huh? How does that analogy make any sense?

McDonalds makes a lot of money because of its business model. It's cheap, convenient, and has huge advertising campaigns. Movies that make the most money do so because people want to pay to watch it.

Popularity and success is an industry-reckonized standard of excellence in the arts. It's not the only standard, but it is definitely one of the major metrics to define movie quality . These terms are common in in the industry to describe movie quality: "blockbuster" "box-office hit" "box-office bomb" "top-grossing film" "cult-classic" etc. Look at any Wikipedia page on a year in films, it will describe two metrics: gross sales and awards.

Look like Miami keeps all that. Which is fine, because that means we'll be able to keep all of our CFB money down the road.

It's interesting to watch Finebaum cry about the chaos of the portal and Alabama getting exposed in the playoffs, as you know some big money is going to be spent this week.

Alabama and Ohio State are probably writing some big checks as they choke back the tears.

Maybe he'll change his mind after yesterday.

And goddammit, I can't find the gif I want for this. Looking for that scene in the Natural, where after Hobbs strikes out the Whammer (who we all know was Babe Ruth, though they never used his name for some reason), Harriet Bird changes the direction she's looking from Ruth to Hobbs. But my google-fu was not strong enough today. Does not bode well for my coming up with good gifs for the Portal today. If anybody can pull off that gif (I'm at work, or I would fire up the laptop), it would be greatly appreciated.

Edit2: Found the scene, just need to make a gif out of it. Starts at 3:37.

Edit3: NM (Left in the above to show how angsty I am about today.)

I'm okay with not him. As a backup plan to Grunkmeyer? Sure. But not as 1A.

Edit: I meant as a backup plan if Grunk doesn't come here, not as Grunk's backup. He won't come here if Grunk does. And I want Grunk. Bad.

Fun fact: I believe this is the first (non-Prince) movie or TV show that's won the rights to use Purple Rain

The Prince estate says that the popularity surge of Kate Bush was a factor in that decision (read: we like $$$)

Also, if ya'll have never listened to her album Hounds of Love give it a listen. The first half especially is banger after banger.

(It's probably that PSU TE.)

You know, I'd love to follow @sekrah today, but whenever I go to his page on the Titters, it's just a random collection of posts, and I have no way to sort by time. How does anybody use that site effectively?

Answering because I have always enjoyed this topic even if it was a joke.

  • Jam is chopped/pureed fruit and sugar
  • Jelly is exclusively fruit juice and sugar (unless you are from the UK when it is a gelatin based dessert like Jello)
  • Preserves are whole fruit/chunks and sugar
  • Chutney is jam with spices
  • Marmalade is like preserves but exclusively citrus based and includes the peel with the fruit

Pectin is sometimes added to these depending on how much occurs naturally in the fruit to help it set up at room temperature.

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