Substitute(s)

Some people out there are disparaging the idea of a "substitute." I just want to remind everybody that without substitutes, none of the following would ever have happened:

-The movie The Substitute (duh) and all sequels
-The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
-The 1999 St. Louis Rams Super Bowl Championship
-AC/DC's "Back in Black" and Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"
-Lou Gehrig's entire career and the awareness raised for Lou Gehrig's Disease, a/k/a MDS
-Beverly Hills Cop*
-The middle seasons of Roseanne
-All of the Vacation movies after Vacation
-Any movie ever made with a stunt double
-Kirk Gibson's legendary home run in game 1 of the 1988 World Series
-The side dish with any meal Oyin has ever ordered

*would have been made, but with Sylvester Stallone as Axel Foley. In other words, it would have been total shit.