"Eatin' some cheese, drinkin' some wine, catchin' some rays."

YW.
Another little one:

One of my favorites.
Woof-woof!

"The Soviets' T-26s tanks (a precursor to the highly effective T-34s) were no match for the obsolete Japanese tanks, whose guns lacked armour piercing shells. "

Should be "were more than a match" or "over-matched" or "outmatched," as the T-26s were far superior to the Japanese armor.

English is your friend.

And for an experiment, why not see if your lips can touch? Do you have to display that slack-jawed, mouth-breather mien as a matter of contract or is it some birth defect?

And Leia was a member of the senate, a key officer of the rebellion, a trusted emissary to the alliance with evidently lots and lots of experience in dealing with the stench of Vader, the duplicitous Grand Moff Tarken, and all that, while Luke was a farmboy not yet old enough to leave home without permission. And yet…

Absolutely.

Well the toilet went crazy yesterday afternoon,

But I heard the Republican Congressman from Florida this morning describe Obama's address as "professorial," with the subtext (imputed by context and tone of voice) that this was a negative thing.
So if "professorial" is ninth grade for the GOP Congress, what grade level must a speech aim for to be regarded as…

Good choices.
As a child growing up in St. Petersburg, FL (with grandparents in Bradenton), we road the Sunshine Skyway bridge over Tampa Bay a lot. I always had nightmares about it collapsing. Then:
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2010/…

The bus is projecting from behind a building with a mirrored face. The door frame is in front of the building with a mirrored face. The boy is running through the door frame towards the bus, parallel to the building with a mirrored face.

So Kong is now an allegory for the American auto industry ...

"No, boys, it wasn't the planes and guns that did him in ... twas Toyota killed the beast."

"provide the key to explain the puzzling clustering of orbits around argument of perihelion close to 0° recently found for the population of ETNOs," the team wrote in one of their papers.

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/A/Argum…

When the explanation requires an explanation, you are not explaining.

Since corrected, there was a period where St. Mary's City (a historic site in southern Maryland) had road signs spelling it "Olde Sainte Marie's Citeye" — allegedly drawn from the log of some ship captain.

When I lived in Cairo, the edge of the western desert was a great place to find tiny lapis and terra cotta beads, bits of old clay effigies, and other assorted junk lying in the sand. Apparently, unless you were wealthy enough to afford a tomb, you were buried in a clay pot (which would inevitably break), or just…

Came here for that. thank you for saving me the effort.

Absolutely. Came here to say this.
Krang never ran AIM.

You are correct, sir, and I do apologize.

Even a scan of these tales will awaken echoes of every genre book you have ever read, and with good reason.

Dune is not really a genre novel.
It is a thinly disguised polemic on political power, ecological power, and economics. The trappings scifi trappings, mysticism and heroes journey are just window dressing.
Once you grok that, young grasshopper, you will find it a far more interesting read.
My advice is wait until you…