They’re in Oregon, and looking at the Store Locator they appear to be in all 50 states.
According to Wikipedia Circle K is world wide
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Michael T. Williamson
When I was watching the MST3K Turkey Day marathon this year, I remembered that back in the '90s I’d seen the show several times before I correctly understood all of the lyrics to the theme song. I’d initially misheard “He’ll have to sit and watch them all, and we’ll monitor his mind” as “He’ll have to sit and watch them all, until the monitor is mine.”
Based on this mishearing, I imagined an inaccurate backstory to the series. I thought that Joel had control of a monitor of importance to Dr. Forrester (presumably the one the Satellite of Love used to communicate with Deep 13). The following line of the song, about how Joel “can’t control when the movie begin or end, because he used those special parts to make his robot friends”, plus the regular invention exchange segments, suggested to me that the monitor was probably Joel’s own invention but had been created with Gizmonics parts. I figured that Dr. Forrester was trying to drive Joel insane with bad movies so that he could steal credit for the monitor.
Just repeat to yourself “It’s just a show. I should really just relax.”
Until just now, I always thought that was the actual lyric.
I assumed it had something to do with the commercial breaks.
I’m not sure what connection that link is supposed to have to your post. 
I presume that bup meant to link to another webpage. Presumably bup had a couple of webpages open for linking to current threads and linked to the wrong one. I suppose that bup had meant to link that webpage to a post on another recent thread:
:smack: Try this one.
Ah, one of those weird bits not explained in the movie.
I’ve been listening to “Pocket Change” heavily since we bought the Alabama Shakes’ album. It’s filled with longing by the narrator to be things that are impermanent, things that you expect to leave and be gone, ending with being a name on a grave. I loved the song, but couldn’t figure out why the narrator wanted something so bleak.
As that link will tell you, it was written for HBO’s True Blood. So, it seems it’s an R+B song from the perspective of a vampire, who won’t usually die outside of suicide or murder. We always want what we can’t have. I’ve never seen the show, but it made me tear up a little when I realized this.
Mondegreen’s gone wild Part 1 million:
All this time in the song “All About That Bass” I thought she was singing “No Trouble”.
But what the heck does “No Treble” mean? 
It means no high notes. Most amplifier controls (home car) have the ability to control the bass and treble.
The bass control boosts our cuts the signal in the lower notes. The treble cuts or boosts the notes in the higher section.
So “no treble” means to turn the treble down, cutting off the high notes, and leaving nothing but the bass notes.
She’s not a stick figure silicone Barbie doll.
I was thinking it was referring to the clefs. Then again, my son got his band teacher to transcribe that song for his trombone and baritone section for their fall concert.
No “skinny bitches.”
Wait… you DO understand what she means when she sings “All about that bass,” don’t you? Here’s a hint: she’s not talking about low frequency sound waves, nor the instruments that produce them.
For a few months I’ve been hearing positive reviews about “Transparent” starring Jeffrey Tambour. He’s a man undergoing gender reassignment, and the show follows his journey in that change. It wasn’t until I heard a review on the radio talking about Tambour’s character’s kids dealing with the reassignment that the title was a portmanteau of trans and parent.
And learning to not hide feelings / thoughts and letting people see who you are is a major theme of the show, it seems.
I’m not completely sold on the show, but the title is fantastic.
In the David Lodge novel Nice Work, there’s a character named Norman Cole who smokes a pipe. One character points out that very little smoke ever comes out of his pipe - mostly, he just (in her words) “fiddles” with it.
Pipe, fiddle, first name that evokes ancient English royalty…He’s Old King Cole!
It took me years to realize the Flaming Homer/Flaming Moe entendre. They set drinks on fire and name it after themselves, that couldn’t mean anything else at all…
This isn’t so much an obvious thing I never noticed as it is something I was just wrong about, but speaking of the Simpsons…
In the episode where Bart witnesses a French Waiter clumsily hurt himself and then try to blame Mayor Quimby’s nephew, there’s a scene where Homer is sitting on the jury thinking “I know you can read my mind boy…” He then goes onto sing what I thought was “yum yum yum yum” but turns out to be “meow meow meow meow”. I think it was only this year that I learnt it was “meow” and not “yum”.
A lot of people I know also thought it was “yum”, so maybe it’s a problem with Australian ears. Plus I think it’s a reference to an American commercial, so we wouldn’t have got the reference.