I would have liked for Jackson to have the Dwarves speak with Norse accents (starting with Gimli in "The Lord of the Rings"), but others on this forum have pointed out, Americans, his target audience, believe that there is only a handful of accents in English: Yankee, Dixie, Fancy English, Working Class Engish [which…

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Since Tolkien took many of the names, especially for the Dwarves, from Norse sagas, I would assume it should be pronounced "Oh-een."

That's something they added.

Precisely. Scary as shit for some reason.

I'm a former Detroiter (stuck in Indy now). I think you might be able to find it at the big Polish grocery store in Hamtramck or maybe the one in Troy at Maple and Dequindre. I've found it in Chicago.

Not to mention brie has the consistency of axle grease.

If you like smoked cheese, you should try oscypek. It's a smoked sheep cheese that is my people's (Polish highlanders) contribution to the Slow Food movement. It's often a bit salty, but I like it.

For the same reason that the rest of the civilized world allows Florida to exist- it's a peninsula with a border attached to a large, powerful country.

I'm almost 50 and have joked with my wife for years about getting all my robot parts when I'm old, so that I'll be able to keep those damned kids off my lawn.

My job requires me to be in generally urban areas. I could live in something like this four or five days a week in the city, but only if I then had a house somewhere in the woods big enough to hold all my junk. However, moot at this point- I've got two preschoolers, so something like this is out of the question for…

I think the last combat veteran of WWI died but there are still people who served in noncombatant roles alive.

My brother taught middle school for years. He said that after 6th grade, kids should be shipped off to work camps, then invited back to society when they can prove they've rejoined the human race (he supposed late teens through early 20s for most).

Please, don't give Saul Zaentz any ideas.

Thanks. I'll have to check it out.

I routinely freak people out with Queen Anne's Lace.

That's exactly what I thought when I saw that photo. I have to say, I don't like the look at all.

Since Patrick Stewart plays both Professor X and Captain Picard, it's obvious that "Star Trek" and "The X-Men" have overlapping universes. All the changes in the time line are the result of the temporal cold war from "Star Trek: Enterprise."

As I understand it, if it's a legitimate penetration of the chitin-less patch, the females have a mechanism to take care of that.