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Jim Ellwanger

@ellwanger.tv
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Fan of pinball, radio jingles, passenger trains, and many other forms of recreation, communication, and transportation. He/him.

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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 17h
This is the plot of approximately 10 billion alternate-history novels.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 19h
Our chief weapons are surprise, fear, ruthless efficiency, and a fanatical devotion to the Chicago White Sox.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 04/10/2026
Their jingle back in the '80s was "America believes in liberty, Liberty Mutual Insurance." Just based on what the jingle is now, you can see how much things have been dumbed down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2aP...
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 04/10/2026
Some anti-trans PAC had enough money to buy ads about the Ohio senator race that ran nationally on TBS during the Guardians-Sox game.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 03/10/2026
The department, or the chemical reaction?
Text message: "Hello, We need your valuable opinions regarding LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE"
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 02/10/2026
Paul Lynde.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 02/10/2026
"We're flying high!"
Robert Hays as Ted Stryker, sweating profusely as he tries to land the titular flying object, in noted Paramount Pictures release AIRPLANE!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 01/10/2026
Hopefully he doesn't reinjure himself on that slide (into the designated hitter role).
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 30/09/2026
Real class would be putting the wine in the Chucky glass.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 30/09/2026
Too bad the MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE OF THE FURIOUS isn't considered canon.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 29/09/2026
You could at least set it to green and pretend everyone in Valerie's Family were Vulcans.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 27/09/2026
And after he died in 1947, the two women stayed together until one died in 1990.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 27/09/2026
The movie theater where I saw TRON is now a church (I realize this is a fairly common theater reuse).
Google Street View of the Britton Radiant Church, in a strip mall
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 27/09/2026
Obviously, I still have Big Feelings about the 2008 World Series.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 27/09/2026
Rays fan here, and I've been thinking the same thing since the weather forecasts came out.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 26/09/2026
Fox (very early days) was interested in TNG, but wanted it sooner than Paramount felt it would be ready. They also went to the 3 established networks, which would only commit to a pilot or TV-movie - Paramount felt Star Trek was a strong enough property that it deserved a full series commitment.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 26/09/2026
Ray Liotta, I assume.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 25/09/2026
Single issue v-otter
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 24/09/2026
Yeah, I'm not Jewish, and I really liked the texture of these.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 24/09/2026
Seems like for Halloween purposes, you'd want to put that on someone else's windowsill.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 24/09/2026
Did Campbell's do market research where people kept saying "Yes, I'd like tomato soup with grilled cheese," and not follow up to where the people specified that what they wanted was a separate grilled cheese SANDWICH?
Nuts and gum - together at last!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 23/09/2026
Me looking at that "ix.netcom.com" address:
static.klipy.com
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 23/09/2026
Birthday cheesesteak and baseball!
Cheesesteak on a TV tray in the foreground, Tampa Bay Rays vs. New York Yankees on TV in the background
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 22/09/2026
The Los Angeles B is wrong, too (it's red).
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 22/09/2026
Young me, whenever I heard "Colour My World" by Chicago on the radio, thought it took FOOOOOREVER to get to the vocal. That one is 58 seconds!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 22/09/2026
This is Bob Odenkirk in old-age makeup.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 21/09/2026
One of my dreams for winning the lottery is to buy some team's sleeve patch advertising rights and then just have them put a secondary team logo and/or memorial patch there.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 20/09/2026
I also want to note that the Wilshire/La Cienega number got down to “<1 min” and then changed to “21 min.” Good thing I’m going to North Hollywood!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 20/09/2026
I’m standing on the platform. It’s too late to plan ahead.
Los Angeles Metro departure time monitor with the rider alert: The "B" & "D" Lines are operating with delays in service due to track maintenance. Trains will share 1 track between Union Station and 7th/Metro Center. Please Plan Ahead.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 18/09/2026
Number 28 is one of the other models we didn't get to see during the episode.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 16/09/2026
Well, that's gonna happen if a werewolf eats too much chocolate.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 16/09/2026
Abe Simpson typing "There are too many cities in L.A. County. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot."
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 16/09/2026
Wash your sheets, Ed!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 16/09/2026
Using my quarterly Hilton credit card credit to have dinner in a hotel that isn’t paying their bills.
TV in a hotel restaurant showing a car commercial. Overlaid is a graphic saying “To pay your bill or make an arrangement: directv.com/pay (203)”
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 15/09/2026
Miss Piggy in a hat, sunglasses, and blue coat, lurking behind a mailbox
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 14/09/2026
Everything except the "most people playing pinball simultaneously" record, which I was part of at an event back in 2015.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 14/09/2026
Nothing but bald men building submarines.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 14/09/2026
Job interview invitations sent from "job job" are definitely not a scam, sure.
Email from "job job," sent to "undisclosed-recipients," with the subject line "Interview Invitation - BangerVille LLC" (BangerVille is a moribund website that this scammer has appropriated the name and logo of)
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 14/09/2026
The only sad thing here is that Zapp Brannigan was originally supposed to be played by Phil Hartman, so you'd like to hear what his versions of the lines would be (of course, Billy West does an excellent job as the character).
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 14/09/2026
Update: The Packers-Vikings game was also a scorigami!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 13/09/2026
And the Bears-Panthers game is about to end in a scorigami!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 13/09/2026
This is one of my favorite SNL sketches of all time. It should have been turned into a movie.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 13/09/2026
There are a couple different ads/reads during Rays radio broadcasts that have that in the copy. I think Webull is one.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 12/09/2026
And she said a friend of hers is in the documentary because she dated Russell in the ‘80s.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 12/09/2026
@travelswithbrindle.bsky.social Getting my hair cut at Supercuts in Studio City, CA - Sparks came up in conversation and the stylist said she used to cut Ron’s hair.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 12/09/2026
I’ve got about two-thirds of the red-band WILD HORSE NINE trailer memorized. If I see it a few more times (which I probably will, given how many movies I see and how often it runs), I’ll probably have it all down pat. What are we, hippies now?
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUNIOR CAMINERO WALKS IT OFF @RAYSBASEBALL HEADS TO THE POSTSEASON!
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 11/09/2026
I noticed the price on the placards wasn't in $, and from a little searching, that photo was apparently taken in the Philippines in 2014.
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 10/09/2026
I gotta see just how cheap the wigs are in the next episode! (complimentary)
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Jim Ellwanger @ellwanger.tv · 10/09/2026
Okay, there are 6 seasons, and you guys just added it on September 1st. Let's not get too antsy.
Email from Netflix telling me, "Don't forget to finish SCTV. Let's find out what happens next... keep watching."
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