Okay, gloves off...

Video pins, be they on a phone, a tablet, a computer or a full size virtual pin, are 97% as much fun as "real" pinball, without the breakdowns, the cost, or all the space they take up! (And I have 14 of the damned things. I prefer real myself, but I use both.)

Ketchup belongs on hot dogs. In Germany, they even have a special wurst with ketchup right in the name, Ketwurst! You gonna argue with Germans about wurst? (Brats are the best, though.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketwurst

Pinball is more fun when you forget about formal competition. Gravity is the true adversary!

If Spooky had made more than 750, and if the games weren't delivered needing a long laundry list of tweaks (which tanked a ton of early ratings), Rick & Morty would be a strong contender for the top ten. It's numero uno in my opinion. WELDED to the floor.

The current sentiment of "anything goes" regarding hairstyles is idiotic.

But at least hair grows back. Covering large areas of one's body in bad art is far worse. Looks like partial death to me. I feel like a maverick, having no shaved areas of my scalp and exactly zero tats.

One should need a prescription to get tobacco products. What a sad accident of history that crap is.

I thought I was
The Bally table king <==============
But I just handed
My pinball crown to him
Even on my favorite table <===============
He can beat my best
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest
He's got crazy flipper fingers
Never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball

Besides, it resembles a "table" a lot more than it does a "machine." And, machines perform work, which is the opposite of the function of a game!

(Although, that Who song's premise is ludicrous. A deaf and blind person could not possibly excel at pinball.)

Scooby Doo?

Scooby don't.

I can count on one hand the number of minutes I have listened to any pinball podcast, genders notwithstanding. What a waste of time.

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Peanuts is a laff riot compared to many others.

At least we have, thanks to the Intertoobz, "Marmaduke Explained" and "Dysfunctional Family Circus" to inject actual humor into those two. I do suppose Peanuts could use the same treatment in a majority of cases.

But why try, when nothing will ever top Calvin and Hobbes?

Meh. Yes, it's not a strip. It's also primarily weird, punny, and not much else, which was fine as far as that goes, but C&H was not only often hilarious but was also heartwarming in a way that those "cute" strips could only hope to be.

How would one describe what The Far Side was about? See? It's all throwaway gags. Calvin and Hobbes made you care. Several single panel comics still exist as imitations of TFS, but I know of no strip that comes close to the magic of C&H. If any do, I'd love to hear about it.

There are a few podcasts made by real life entertainers that I listen to occasionally, usually while doing chores. Comedians, mostly, but Alan Alda's casts are intriguing.

However, I can't imagine being so immersed in pinball that I would even contemplate having any interest whatsoever in hearing Joe Pinball babble on about pinball. I'd sooner spend an afternoon playing Stare At The Sun, or listening to Yoko Ono's Greatest Hits on repeat.

For you guys that spend all day working on pins, I guess it would make good background noise.

From what I read, the young hooligans must have been told by judges that they can join the Marines to avoid conviction on minor offenses, with the expectation that being in the service will straighten them out. But even back then they didn't hand out the option of prison or service to someone who was convicted of anything substantial. The hand raisers were "headed towards prison," not convicts.

Do you mean physics-wise, or that neither correctly describes anyone's skin color? An argument can be made for either.