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I'M JUST TALKIN' ABOUT "SHIFT" |
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His "Divine Comedy": "All hope abandon, ye who enter here!" |
Dante
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"Hill Street Station" (Writing, 1981) |
Hill Street Blues
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A manual transmission requires the driver to use one of these alliterative items |
stick shift
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Drop to one knee--hold on. Check for puddles, drop to one knee, take out the ring, ask |
propose marriage
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Its army has about 30,000 permanent troops, with about 11,000 stationed in Queensland |
Australia
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Bleu des Causses is a cave-matured type of this |
cheese
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From Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan": "I can resist everything except" this |
temptation
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"'A', My Name is Alex" (Writing, 1987) |
Family Ties
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"Charnel" work period between midnight & 8 A.M. |
the graveyard shift
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Get out of the cold, put waxy white fingers in 104- to 107-degree water |
(Dave: What is prevent frostbite?) (Mark: What is prevent hypothermia?) (Amy: What is defrost?)
treat frostbite
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Its PLA has an active strength of about 1.25 million personnel |
(Dave: What is Palestine?)
China
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At Hardee's these sides are beer-battered |
onion rings
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Karl Marx: this "is the opium of the people" |
religion
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"Slay Everyone, Trust No One" (Cinematography for Reality Programming, 2010) |
Survivor
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Nonfiction bestseller about the battle to succeed Johnny Carson |
The Late Shift
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Use the buttons & the strum bar, access star power by tilting the head, forget about how foolish you look |
play Guitar Hero
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In 2009 its armed forces had a reported strength of 134,886--beware their multi-purpose knives! |
Switzerland
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This Hawaiian word can refer to the bigeye or the yellowfin tuna; on menus it often follows "seared" |
ahi tuna
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From "Walden": "the mass of men lead lives of quiet" this |
desperation
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"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Pilot)" (Writing for a Drama Series, 2008) |
Mad Men
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On "True Blood" Sam is this hyphenated kind of creature, often becoming a dog |
shape-shifter
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Fill glass with ice, pour in pinot grigio, add club soda, garnish |
make a wine spritzer
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It has an active-duty military force of about 1.2 million; its neighbor to the south, about 680,000 |
North Korea
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Eggs a la Jockey Club are served with kidneys & garnished with mushrooms & these fungi (jockeys eat well) |
truffles
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John Adams at the Boston Massacre trials: these "are stubborn things" |
facts
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"Routine: Hummingbird and Flower / The Chairman's Waltz" (Choreography, 2008) |
(Mark: What is Dancing with the Stars?)
So You Think You Can Dance
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Pick a lead underwriter, give the SEC a prospectus, give possible investors a red herring, run tombstone ads |
do an IPO
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In August 2010 General Zahir Azimi announced that its army had reached target strength of 134,000 2 months ahead of schedule |
(Amy: What is Iraq?)
Afghanistan
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Kasha is often made from the edible kernels of buckwheat, which are also called not oats but these |
groats
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