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The Puzzler
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Sometimes he tortures himself endlessly over his failures. Other times, he forgets about them completely and they're never mentioned again. My guess is this is one of the latter.

Bah! Send the women and children to work on the farms! Those Germans could have easily managed another year of pointless warfare if they'd planned it better.

There was a period where quick pop-culture references seemed cool - the sitcom Spaced did a ton of them. Then we got a glut of parody films - trying to copy the success of Scary Movie - which tended to just randomly reference things that were familiar from movie trailers in place of real jokes. After a while most of

Most critics ignore soaps.

Picking up a random rock or stick that was lying around and beating something to death with it is, like, the caveman's only skill. When the astronauts were learning orbital mechanics, the cavemen were learning to hit things with rocks. Advantage: cavemen.

Nothing says religion like a callous disregard for human life.

I think all Logan's problems are supposed to be caused by his adamantium skeleton slowly poisoning him and interfering with his healing powers?

Don't cats have pretty clearly defined gender roles? The average male cat doesn't take much responsibility for raising the kittens.

Brits add regular milk to tea. In Hong Kong, they add evaporated milk, which thickens it. Not the same thing.

How dare you! It's one of the world's most extraordinary natural phenomena!

Wikipedia dates it December 17, 1988. The wall came down in 1989. So it was clearly the Chipmunks inspiring the historical event rather than the other way around.

The thing is, it's a musical. A lifelong dream involving music or dance is going to fit in smoother than a lifelong dream of being an actor.

According to that story, no-one recognised him as the star of Batman V Superman. But maybe they did recognise him and didn't care?

But she's powerless now! Unless she gives her evidence to someone else, I guess. But as long as she doesn't know any other journalists, they'll be fine!

And the reason you feel old is probably that you're suffering the twin pains of having adult responsibilities thrust upon you without your consent, while also sensing that you haven't achieved the things you ought to have achieved by this stage of your life.

It's a Gameboy that you can plug into your TV so you can play on it like an Atari.

21st century eating: Tons of heavily processed meat, booze, carbonated drinks containing 15 spoonfuls of sugar, and only the occasional vegetable.

Dude, don't push the camera through the guy's leg and out the other side in the middle of his monologue. That's just rude.

Q is a dangerous and whimsical superbeing who might respond to a murder attempt by exterminating humanity, so… maybe?

Cat Science Facts: 'Kneading' with paws is one of the kitten behaviors that domesticated cats (unlike wild cats) carry forwards into adulthood. In an actual kitten, it's what they do to stimulate their mother's milk production.