@"in which a bunch of alien sleeper agents are sent to Earth as the advance guard of an invasion but then decide to side with humanity"

Interestingly, if you blow [admittedly "gently"] on a match in space, it helps it burn brighter.

I agree, tralfaz (or may I call you "Astro"?), however I thought the Mandarin's rings had been retconned into some superscience stuff (ala the Asgardians' magic) in an attempt to de-magickify the books.

They're hollow! Vaccu-form mountains! Now if we get to the interior, we find the hidden Old Ones who have been isolated for millennia.

Not if you paid me. Not if you paid me and passed laws that I had to. Not if you paid me, passed laws and promised to shoot if I didn't. No. That is just, what's the word?

@"About 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid are used per year"

Yeah, it should turn into a jetback after it goes down.

Read it again, Shana, he is saying, "We have a man [Thor] who has a flying hammer and wears horns on his head" - not a man who has a flying hammer and another man who wears horns on his dead.

@"I think every Batman movie ever has had rumors of a Batplane, and we still haven't gotten much closer than this. So take this with a grain of salt for now."

Perhaps, but he should pay a little more attention ... Thor has wings on his head; it's Loki who wears horns. Just sayin'.

Why is my dog barking at the prof?

Great post, Annalee. I predict a bazillion comments, if only because we homo saps hate having our mirrors played with.

So maybe yes, maybe no, or maybe partly, perhaps sorta kinda in a way if you know what I mean possibly?

Dingdingding! We have a winna!

Baaaaa.

"We don't know, we just don't know yet. When we know, we'll let you know. We don't know yet it's too early."

You're welcome!

I think the definition of "Planet" should be "Places Humans Can Live."

This, with the improvements pending on the Panama Canal, and the ongoing debate between environmentalists and industrialists over deepening harbors on the Eastern Seaboard (my own hometown included), is a wonder to behold.

"This means that some health conditions caused by defective X chromosomes are almost unknown in girls. If something's wrong in a gene on one X chromosome, the other can step up. If a boy gets an X with a problem, there is no back-up."