I think it was often used in the form of the question, "Do those legs go all the way up?" which adds that little bit of naughty suggestiveness which people in the 30s got to appreciate because the Code and contemporary standards prevented them from being straight-up raunchy.

Who's the cop with the heart of gold?

No Willie the Operatic Whale?  That one had me in tears - the fact that the conductor killed the very artist he wanted to save and it was Willie's friend who lead the whaling ship to him?  Blubbered like a baby.

Not really the same scale I'd say.

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I don't think I agree.  Most often, when they are dicks to each other, there is some sort of comeuppance within the group that the behavior was unacceptable.  In this case, they all just embraced being jerks, which seemed rather nastier.

Well once you're talking about supernatural demons frozen in early eternal youth, it's rather a different situation, isn't it?  And I don't think I'd use any of Buffy's supernatural relationships as examples of healthy, desirable romance.

Does this really make them "horrible people" though?  Doesn't it really just make them normal flawed people?  Shirley doesn't really "pretend to be good" - she an honestly nice person (remember her leaping up to help Pierce with his fake clot), who also is a bit narrow-minded and sheltered.  And is Britta really only…

My eyes are 20/400 too, and I have a recurring nightmare in which I'm wandering through an unfamiliar place looking for my glasses - with everything blurry of course.  Horrible.

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I get this maybe a little, but is this really what we would want?  The treasures of the Vatican museaum sold off to random rich people?  I mean why aren't we calling for every museum to sell off its extremely valuable art/artifacts and use the money for the betterment of the poor or locals?

Plus, most Christians, who are what others term "literalists," would be more likely to call themselves something like "Bible Believing" or "Bible/Scripture-Based," which, as you've pointed out, is possibly more accurate and does less violence to the language.

When I was a teenager, our church would have definitely called itself "Bible-based" and "Evangelical" (still does, so far as I am aware), but it still had an internal debate amongst its members over whether they were "new earth" or "old earth."

"Evangelical" is not a denomination nor is it a standardized term.  Thus, some evangelicals (some types of Baptists) don't believe that Catholics are Christian while, others, like Presbyterians, consider Catholics to be Christians.

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I think the comment was about the world and, whether you like it or not, the vast majority of the world believes in a deity of some sort.

"You people couldn't sustain a culture of pure-hearted philantropy if a damn pistol was hold up to your crippled heads."

I thinks its worth remembering that being a a strong disciplinarian doesn't mean you won't have a friendly relationship with your kids too (though there are no guarentees). My parents were tough and expected good, responsible behavior from me and my siblings but ended up having teenagers who liked being around their…

She is pretty darn cool. And the medal citation leaves out the fact that, before the Nazis executed her, they sent her to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp where she did hard labor for several months. They executed her there and burned her body in the crematorium.

Hmmmm…