the line

@Kidsandliz I’m not the only kid who did that!? One of our cars had black vinyl (or something similar) with what looked like white stitching, basically creating a checker board effect. I was about 10 and my sister was about 6, which in itself generated uncountable hours for bickering. Add the usual squabbles to the new topic of “you’re on MY side of the seat!” then sprinkle on my sister’s complaints that I was looking out of her window… Car trips were lively.

@magic_cave That sounds about right - we were grade school when we’d do this too. I am sure if we had thought about it we’d have done the window thing too (although a bit harder as there were more kids than windows). We’d spend countless hours (especially during 8-10 hour drives in the summer) playing whack a mole putting fingers “over the line” (along with doing some taunting) with the sibling whose space we were invading attempting to smash said finger with a fist. Of course we’d also cooperate putting gun sights on the windows with crayons and “shoot” trucks as they passed us (yes you read that right - passed us and not the other way around - those road trips could have been 7-9 hours I bet). My parents apparently had an endless ability to ignore screaming, yelling and drama from the back seat.

@Yoda_Daenerys it’s actually the opposite, at least in professional US football: any touch to the line. For example for a catch you have to show 2 feet in bounds before any part of either foot even touches the sideline to be considered a catch inbounds, and if the football “breaks the plane” of the endzone, it is a touchdown,

@mollama so that’s kinda weird, right? touch the line when making a catch and you are out (so the boundary is at the ‘start’ of the line). however, when trying to score a touchdown you have to cross the line (so the boundary is the ‘end’ of the line).

@Mehsturbator there is a very
fine line where the ball is in or out, what do you mean a thinner line? if it touches the line - in, if not - out

/youtube touch me in that thin line

@Mehsturbator asshole.

@Mehsturbator what was the game that was lost?

@cranky1950
Is that bird alive, or are you cranky, or both, or neither?

@cranky1950
My fav segment from that wikipedia page:

The United States military when trying to avoid divulging information gives reporters briefings with 25 minutes of intentionally dull PowerPoint presentations and 5 minutes left at the end for questions from anyone who is still awake. The presentations are called hypnotizing chickens.[13]

Does this mean that Pentagon reporters who try to be objective, which is to say fair, are still fowl?

@f00l Probably eaten or cat food by now.

@daveinwarsh glen is looking pretty pure and clean-cut there, did he ever get into any trouble?

@Yoda_Daenerys I can’t believe that Glen Campbell did anything wrong in his life (except questionable acting in True Grit).

@daveinwarsh
What if he wasn’t supposed to drive the main roads? What if he was supposed to drive the non-main roads? ; )

I love that song, btw.

@daveinwarsh lol, yea, i must be thinking of some other so called squeaky clean musician gone bad…

@Yoda_Daenerys Bob Denver?
/youtube John Denver - Rocky Mountain High