My town had a bowling ball factory and on winter nights when the river was frozen we would steal reject balls and throw them off the bridge downtown. They made a truly incredible noise when they hit the ice.

Fuck, I don't even like changing tires on my bicycles.

Yeah, I really want to buy one of these things, but there's no place around that could do any kind of work on them. I also wouldn't mind a gas-powered scooter, but the nearest shops that sell them are over 25 miles away and they don't work on any scooters that they didn't sell you -- and their cheapest scooters cost even more than the Aventura-X.

I had a friend whose mom was a severe gambling addict. We visited them in Lake Charles and we got to stay in a free suite and ate for free at the buffet every night, thanks to the mom's status at the casinos. My friend told me that her mom had lost approximately $500,000 in total, and this was a woman that made $25 an hour as a nurse. That's about 10 years of career earnings totally pissed away.

At least they're not Necco Wafers, although they're obviously a related species.

9 out of 10 dentists approve! They have to send their kids to college, too.

Could have been, I don't remember. I tried to find a news article about it but this was from too long ago - mid 1980s.

We wouldn't have the phrase "cunt punt" without the greek system.

Where I went to college, one of the frats just the year before I started had gotten kicked off campus because at a party at the frat house, some of the members beat up a pledge and kicked him down the basement stairs and he broke his neck and died. His corpse wasn't discovered until late the next day. Nobody was punished criminally because they couldn't identify who had actually done it, so the expulsion of the frat was the only penalty. The frat house got turned into a dorm for international students, and every few weeks members of the fraternity (which still existed but off-campus) would run through the building and trash the public spaces and harass any international students they encountered. These students were in a constant state of fear because of this.

To my great surprise, this college a couple of decades later banned all greek organizations entirely. It was a pretty wild decision because when I went there, 90% of the students were in fraternities or sororities. Good riddance.

$50 from Minneapolis to Chicago isn't cheap?

you must have a job or you will die in the street

And here's the punchline: no more jobs!

Unrelated, but near my gym there is an actual Radon St. I wonder if people who live there have trouble selling their houses. I suspect it may actually be a positive, as this is a Philadelphia suburb where you occasionally see the confederate flag flying, so the brain damage is already widespread.