hatersaurusrex

hatersaurusrex t1_j85eqmo wrote

Reply to comment by RaptorPrime in Missouri votes against banning children from carrying guns in public by VidE27

The whole thing is confusing. This quote:

>A Democrat, Donna Baringer, said police in her district asked for the change to stop “14-year-olds walking down the middle of the street in the city of St Louis carrying AR-15s”.

seems to imply that St. Louis is a lawless wasteland where juvenile warlords brazenly and openly carry semiautomatic rifles in broad daylight so often that police are begging lawmakers to do something about it.

But I can't find any evidence of that happening outside this lady's quote.

Meanwhile, back in reality, teenagers hunting on public land with an old Henry .22 can easily wind up with a police record all because somebody in the state capitol decided to grandstand in order to solve a problem that probably doesn't exist.

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hatersaurusrex t1_j2dn171 wrote

Reply to comment by peacefulwarrior75 in TIL Ernest P. Worrell (Ernest Saves Christmas et al.) & Vern were originally created by advertising company Carden & Cherry to promote various local and national brands. Due to the commercials popularity, an Ernest television show and ten movies were made, knowwhatimean? by OptionalPlayer

Dude - I must have seen The Beastmaster 200 times growing up for that reason.

I'm willing to bet an inordinate number of ferrets in the South were named Kodo and Podo in the 80's

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hatersaurusrex t1_j2dm4q7 wrote

Reply to comment by peacefulwarrior75 in TIL Ernest P. Worrell (Ernest Saves Christmas et al.) & Vern were originally created by advertising company Carden & Cherry to promote various local and national brands. Due to the commercials popularity, an Ernest television show and ten movies were made, knowwhatimean? by OptionalPlayer

We had no team here, so growing up it was the Braves on WTBS or the Cubs on WGN. When Greg Maddux went to Atlanta it was like all my childhood baseball dreams came true.

Between Braves games at Fulton Co Stadium and NWA wrasslin' at the Georgia Dome, Ted Turner loomed large in the childhoods of many kids in the Southeast.

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hatersaurusrex t1_j2difb0 wrote

Reply to TIL Ernest P. Worrell (Ernest Saves Christmas et al.) & Vern were originally created by advertising company Carden & Cherry to promote various local and national brands. Due to the commercials popularity, an Ernest television show and ten movies were made, knowwhatimean? by OptionalPlayer

Growing up in Middle Tennessee, when the Ernest movies came out we were confused as to why Vern's neighbor suddenly went to a summer camp where there was no Purity milk to be had.

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hatersaurusrex t1_j2bekpy wrote

Reply to comment by shr2016 in TIL John Matuszak, best known for playing Sloth in The Goonies, was a state champion in the shot put, was the #1 overall draft pick in the NFL, was served a restraining order during a game, had a head coach perform life-saving CPR, won 2 Super Bowls, and acted with Ringo Starr before ODing at 38 by PasghettiSquash

So many players on that team were basically prison football movie caricatures - Ted Hendricks, Lester Hayes, Lyle Alzado, and of course Kenny "The Snake" Stabler leading the charge while ripping a Winston on the sidelines and tossing around his glorious mullet before heading back out to punch the Steelers in their collective dick.

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hatersaurusrex t1_iu3g9ce wrote

Reply to comment by JuzoItami in TIL Devon Allen, track & field athlete/Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, was disqualified in the World Athletic Championships for a controversial false start. The starting blocks measured his reaction time from the time the gun went off at 0.099, which is 0.001 seconds faster than legally allowed. by The_Critical_Cynic

Considering drag racers often have reaction times down into the .05 second range and below, I'd say the number is arbitrary AF.

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