Yes. You probably should. There are the gross mispronunciations (Em-PANDA for empanada), there are ones that are due to the way different languages have different proununciations of the same spelling (quesadilla pronounced like armadillo, or the way that most European ending e's are silent (by any reasonable English…

I give people a lot of slack with that one. It's only recently popped up and mostly in the usual "super food" circles; plain and healthy foods don't integrate themselves onto all ranges of menus the way a simple spicy add-on does. I'd get used to Kween-oh-ah, Kin-oh-ah, qui-eye-noah and all range of possibilities with…

I've had some good ones and some weird ones.

I know! If they just let a coal plant build there, they wouldn't have to deal with the sun at all!

I was thinking more of the casual watcher who saw IM3, maybe in the theaters, maybe at home, but doesn't know to look for the Thor 2 extras. They're enjoying the movies, but if the real Mandarin ever makes an appearance of if Trevor is ever revisited in the movies, it'll be oddly confusing.

Especially since it wasn't with the IM3 disk. It was, IIRC, part of Thor 2's extras. Sure, Marvel's current strategy assumes you'll see everything, but it was the first of the shorts that meant something*.

Right! Because H. Jon Benjamin manages to sound different. It might be the script-writers, it might be the animators...or it might well be him putting some effort in.

And his brother Greggers cLeghorn The Mountain-sized chicken.

This. I really don't understand why the story didn't end right there.

So she slipped him the ol' long form?

I can't speak to The Andromeda Strain, but Cat's Cradle had Ice-9, which was a solid form of water that, upon contact with other forms of water converted them to its style of crystallization, so that seems like a likely candidate, aye.

It sure sounds like somebody is hot

You were in Vegas. Open-door AC is but a gnat on the back of the great hulking beast of wastefulness that is that city. The infrastructure required to build that place in the middle of the desert and keep it supplied with water is absurd. Eventually, when droughts get worse, that city will just have to close up shop…

Well, if we ignore the "of an animal" requirement, I'd say anyone on a coast has some serious spoor everyday. As a sign of its passing, I'd say the tides are pretty damn impressive and can be quite intimidating.

Most of what we think of as taste comes through our sense of smell. and yours, sir, I have my doubts about.

Well, is spoor's description modified by the location or the triggering animal? I figure that print would be "Astronaut Spoor". "Lunar Spoor" would be a rather intimidating prospect, not just because of the implied scale, but in that it suggest that the moon would then actually be an animal. The very term should make…

I won't speak for everyone, but I think the internet can find a better arbiter of humor than someone who chose the name "Fartsmellington".

Yes, but there's a wide range of them. I work with young kids including a cluster of kids this age. Some I can talk to about interesting ideas and concepts (appropriately scaled to their level) in topics both fictional (some kid knew bits of the Silmarillion) and non-fictional (teaching wee kids about fractals is a…

Pretty much anytime I see someone say "both sides" I expect they're either actively trying to deceive me or a dupe of someone who was. "One side is using facts, the other side is lying, but both sides are trying to convince me of something so I shouldn't trust either."

Does anyone know what caused Chiefindica's question? I didn't read the comment long enough to.........