I read the phrase "circled around dumping fuel" less literally. I thought in a situation like this he'd waste fuel by circling around, not ejecting it, but spending it in laps around the airport.

So then perhaps: "Equals nine squared you dirty whore?" :P

Scans almost right, but the first line is 8 syllables (a doz en a gross and a score), while your last line is 9 syllables (equ als nine squared plus ze ro no more). Tymm's isn't better.

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It wouldn't reform the same way, sure, but it developed independently around the world before. It would, sadly, do so again.

Those were my thoughts...exactly.

She pulled out the stops that way by just killing off one of the Weasley Twins. That was cruel. Doing the same to Remus/Tonks would have been repeating herself.

Right, so I'm sure the guns and swords would be wonderfully useful in defending dixie from bombers and drone strikes. The point isn't the efficacy of one small-arms force against another, it's that invasion isn't the equivalent objective; annihilation is.

It's not about invading. Ronin didn't send ground troops to Xandar, he crashed a fucking ship into it. The south can have their AKs and moonshine all they want. No amount of drunken firing up into the air will defend against a single bomber. Hell, all the guns they had back in the civil war didn't stop Sherman.

If we put more of that along the journey than there already is, people would complain about it being padded even more than they already do.

Your argument could have merit in another country. Maybe. Perhaps. Sort of.

Time's Arrow was great, but you seem to be forgetting City on the Edge of Forever.

Bilbo sheathes Sting after fending off the spiders at 45:45. Lake Town appears at 48:38. The door opens at 51:50. 6 minutes. That's less time than between when Smaug appears at 54:20 and when he takes wing at 61:20. He exaggerated a little, yes, but it'd be hyperbolic to say he was being hyperbolic. The movie sprinted…

It takes forty minutes to leave the Shire because we have a dozen new characters to introduce. The original books had few details about the non-Thorin dwarves, but if we're going to spend more than an hour or so with them, we need some development and differentiation.

I don't think it's opinions he minds so much as unwavering and unsupported ones. "This article says it could be done so it must be true." "But what about this and this and this" "The article says it could be done so it must be true."

THANK YOU! I was reading through these replies with my jaw on the floor. I can't understand how people's rose colored glasses are so thick. He wasn't a well intentioned guy in over his head; on his best days he was a disinterested frat-boy who had no business running a convenience store let alone a country. The rest…

No, if he's the only black guy and his presence is trivial, he's a token. If he is the star, he's not a token. It's not just about the number of characters, but the significance and quality of the role.

I second EL34's comment. The footnotes are vital, even when they go on for several pages and are so nested as to rival those of David Foster Wallace. The book's style may well take some getting used to, but it is an enjoyable journey.

Anyone can! That doesn't mean they will. We could be living in the universe where Scoobie correctly guesses what the answer is without understanding the riddle...but we won't know until the probability waveform collapses. However, I'm guessing that honor belongs to a Scoobie elsewhere in the multiverse.

Nice. Quite nice, but I have to say I'm a little disappointed it wasn't a version of Bilbo's Last Song, though I expect the various issues with the estate would keep that from happening.