If you stylize boxing or any other combat sport enough to be compelling visually as a live theatrical event, you basically just end up reinventing pro wrestling. Movies are an entirely different medium.

Got to write 'L' and 'R' on those hands so this doesn't keep happening.

Absolutely hilarious to put Weymouth in that sentence like it belongs there when this is exactly the kind of girl who would say she grew up "between Boston and Cape Cod"

My guess is audiences would place Lars somewhere in Scandinavia but often draw a blank on Soren. There may be names that perfectly signal "Danish uncle" to Danes or even other Scandinavians, but the rest of us likely won't pick up on it.

I'm thinking of ways to even try to answer this question statistically and I'm stumped. This one you actually HAVE to go "on vibes"! Did you read quickly and go for most common names for Danish men over x age?

Also, I just looked it up and it appears to be from Middle High German, not French. Modern German has Krapfen, which a bunch of people right now probably regret eating too many of yesterday!

The movement of words is not the same as the movement of things. "Kreplach" may have meant something completely different to a Rhineland Yiddish speaker in one time than it did to a speaker in Poland in another.

You can find dumplings on menus under "Peking Ravioli". That doesn't mean they're secretly Italian. A Yiddish speaker thinking "This looks a bit like a tiny folded crepe," is immaterial to the origin of the dish itself.

No idea how well-researched this particular map is, but names for a thing are not the same as the thing itself and etymology is a very unreliable stand-in for history.

A frappe has ice cream, a milkshake doesn't, and a cabinet is just a frappe made in the heathen wilds of Rhode Island.

If it's Rush hour you're better off taking the 2112

In 2015 it was faster for me to put chains on my shoes and run into work instead of taking the T. I lived in Medford and worked downtown.

It is 10 degrees colder than when I walked to the bar and frankly I do not approve.

It saddens ME kids don't know the BEASTIES / We used to BE a proper COUNTRY

[flute solo]

The Temptations' most popular songs were so ubiquitous on "oldies" stations that they're also in a weird blind spot for crate diggers who are looking for "new old stuff" to play. Even though they would absolutely kill and a bunch of people would be up at the booth asking who that last track was

The issue is that the system was set up to have independent operators run the night train services. It doesn't matter if they could theoretically use the cars on the 15:15 to Berlin, because they don't have a 15:15 to Berlin.

What you are describing is not possible in the system described by the article. They can't run them "during the day" because they do not have access to those slots.

That's the problem they're describing, not the solution. How do you pay off the cost of new couchette cars when they're only in service once a day? You either lose money for a long time or you price your market out of existence.

Pretty sure this is Gloucester, Massachusetts, so you are somehow both thousands of miles off and right on the nose.

Bernstein on the Beach. A minimalist compilation: 3 hours of jazz standards, but with the leads removed. The best sidemen in history comping horns that aren't there along with just the left hands of the greatest jazz pianists ever.

The narrative is so ingrained that replies keep returning to it. "Blue states are bubbles, go live in the HeartlandTM!" My MA hometown is a solid red bastion of evangelicals and trad Catholics bonded by their shared racism. These guys could have just taken any exit on the way to their Cape house.

Bari's Rockin' New Year's Eve to debut on December 30. Critics see a scheduling error, but supporters say she's disrupting the holiday establishment.

There are markers along the route, which is unrelated to Route 93. I suspect they are only marking Dunks that are on that marked route itself, not any that are just off it by a block or whatever. The route does go under 93 in Sullivan Square heading into East Somerville, but that's it.

My apostate take is that visitors should go to Mike's in Everett at 1am on a weekend and eat a super beef and fries slightly drunk.

Ok but Black Metal Law would be an amazing procedural.

Monday: I'm gonna cook a bunch of eggs and put them in the fridge so I can have them with breakfast all week
Tuesday: Who the hell ate all my eggs?
I live alone.

I once described the North Shore's vibe as "people have 'good sweats' for more formal events, like church or the playoffs."

But they're explicitly not who I'm talking about. They are the elite athletes who DID advance up the levels of the "right" sport. There are also guys who dropped off the elite level in soccer who may have been more succesful in another sport if they'd been more into it than soccer at a young age.

lol, I think the only thing we actually disagree on is whether this is happening for soccer at an equivalent level to football and basketball for boys specifically in the USA currently

But it's not random, it's culturally filtered. The reason you suddenly have a bunch of European superstars in the NBA is because there was a massive increase in the number of kids playing high-level basketball in Europe a few decades ago. A lot of them would have focused on other sports before that!