Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner, telling the nerds, "No Way."

Hey Rick! How many whacks does it take to hack through Herschel's leg? I don't know, let's go ask owl. Owl! How many whacks does it take to hack through Herschel's leg? Let's see- one... two... three... crack. Three.

It's amazing (although it shouldn't be surprising) how much it looks like the view just west of the Pyramids at Ghiza.

I've assumed the same thing.

Well, much of Australia and much of Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky come from the same inbred Scot/Irish/English stock that were either swept out of the countryside to free up the land for industrialized wool production or rounded up in the cities and dumped in the colonies as an early form of urban renewal. They…

The hitched up buckle of the Bible Belt: Indiana. It was in Indianapolis, but the woman's accent sounded like it came from much farther south.

No. To avoid copyright complications, it's an eldritch evil of vaguely sea cucumber form known as Kdhoolhoo.

Amen! Can I sell you a book about a Steampunk vampire Sherlock Holmes racing to save Nikola Tesla from dying during the eruption of Krakatoa?

Dude, I thought I was being punked when I heard her say it. I'm no rabid atheist, more a science fiction nerd agnostic, but I understand your skepticism- the internet is full of people posting bullshit hearsay. All I can say is I swear on the graves of my heroes from A-Z (Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke.... Zelazny) that…

If you Google this guy who proposed a Constitutional amendment to define marriage as 'one man and one woman,' you'll find that he's currently on wife number 4. What a tool.

I can think of two reasons why embryology might be on his hate list:

Reminds me of how the Irish chucked their earliest mythological origins and plugged themselves into biblical mythology at some point in the early medieval period.

So say we all.

That's right! My Russian ain't what it used to be.

A shocking ending even when I read it as a cloistered white suburbanite in the 1970s.

Kind of like how "Elizabeth" can give rise to "Betty." Yevgeny is Russian for "Eugene (well-born in Greek)." The "g" of '-geny' mutates into a 'zh,' a common mutation when declining Russian verbs. The '-ya' is normal Russian diminutive suffix. A more commonly know one might be how the '-sa-' in "Aleksandr" forms…

Was it Bradbury or Clarke who wrote the short story in the late '40s or early '50s wherein Earth is contacted by an intergalactic civilization, explaining that humans are the result of a lost colony that mutated horribly? The upshot was that they didn't bother recontacting the lost colony's descendants until that…

Even if China weren't under communist rule, I think the potential threat would hold true- as others here have pointed out, when you've got a lot of extra young men, sometimes they end up getting treated like an extra set of pawns in a geopolitical chess game. I'm not necessarily talking about a conflict with the US. …

Actually, yes. Our oldest son, who is 3, calls the son and daughter of some friends of ours from Beijing 'ge ge' (older brother) and 'jie jie' (older sister).

Maybe it wasn't clear from my postings- I'm a private immigration attorney, not an immigration official; I've have clients from all over the world. In my experience, boys from Latin American, Middle Eastern and Asia (especially Indian, Chinese and Japanese) families are not raised with the same level of discipline or…