Sooo ... Esther likes the word "contraption" ... a lot!

Count me in.

As an oddity. But it would also mean the end of the sport as anything other than a sideshow.

While I can appreciate the call for an end to the pointless and unsuccessful "War on Drugs", the idea of opening the Olympics to any and all comers, including surgical modification, prosthetics, or even genetic manipulation is truly counter to the ideal of the Olympics.

Is there an atlatl?

I shall avoide Dihydrate Monoxide and drink nothing but distilled water, or rainwater, in the future.

"The Munsters actually do what monsters do. They eat people and they have to live with the ramifications of being monstrous. "

Perhaps I am simple (no, wait, strike the "perhaps") but I thought the universe tended towards entropy and that matter was moving apart.

Don't spoil the Flintstone's jingle, man.

Ah, a Time Lord. I should have suspected as much.

Dang beat me to it. But that is normal, ain't it Captain Stein?

Thank you! This is a wonderful article.

So very wrong, FYFI.

Actually, all of you "can mean 'bigness'" people ... the FIRST definition is the COMMON definition. The rest are included because misuse of the term has entered the general language, just as "grandiose" and "grandiloquent" have frequently been misused to mean merely "fancy" where the real meaning (and first…

From the still at the top, I thought the commentator was being hacked on-air. Seriously, that woman has some very strange facial expressions ... looks like a stroke victim or something.

For me, it was Heinlein's "The Red Planet" when I was eight, which may have something to do with my politics these days, or not.

the best sword fights ever committed to film?

I'll save you part of the trouble ... best sword fights committed to film: Inigo Montoya v. Dread Pirate Wesley in the Princess Bride.

Bbbbut, that would mean no infinite-repeater shotguns for killing zombies!

FYI.