The Americans on FX

So what's the body count on being afraid of nothing (Star Wars)?

 

98 percent of the Cold War was misconceptions and being afraid of nothing (that was going to happen) and everything (that might happen if every one of our paranoid fears comes to fruition, damn any evidence to the contrary).

 

Reminds me of a few other recent wars.

 

I don't get everyone's infatuation with Russell. She's OK looking, but not hot. The Penny Lane look was hot.

 

Did anyone catch the Star Wars sheets? I had those!

 

I sort of think he won her back by showing the bravery to rescue her. Remember, kids in Canada was just a short drive away. He still saved the woman that kicked him out.

 

I was wondering if the baseball cards were accurate for the year.

 

It's the ass-kicking. Nothing's hotter than a woman who can beat the living shit out of you.

 

One thing that I question as being anachronistic: there was a Guinness sign in the episode when they went to Philly, and in the next to last episode the traitor ordered a draft Guinness. Was Guinness available in the U.S. like that then? I had never heard of it until I started drinking it in the mid 90s. I ask, because the world I grew up in, there was Coors, Miller and Bud -- basically your beers that were on the sides of race cars in NASCAR.

 

According to the link below, it was brewed/bottled in the New York/New Jersey area as early as 1948, so I assume it would have drifted out to DC by 1981:

https://www.sites.google.com/site/jesskidden/guinnessinamerica

I had the same reaction the first time I saw "No Country For Old Men," and Stephen Root's character gave Woody Harrelson's character an ATM card in 1980. But apparently Texas Instruments invented the first ATM in the mid-70s and banks in Dallas were the first ones to use them.

 

there was an ATM machine at Suburban Bank across the street from The 'Vous in College Park in 1981

 

They had ATM in the 1970s? And here I thought the decade was all about deep throating.