Most of them are, twif.

I love dropping stuff off at Goodwill, Fritzy. I celebrate by buying something on the way home, usually a 12-pack. And rationalist, you're absolutely right. Once I've dropped off the leftovers out of my fridge, the 12-pack fits just fine.

Too expensive. You have to buy and drink the liquor in the bottle before you can refill it with gasoline. And I'm not drinking cheap, crappy liquor, thank you very much.

Don't worry, spamremix, I wrap the whiffle bat in several layers of duct tape to give it enough heft that you feel the beatings. Sucker! You thought a whiffle bat wouldn't hurt.

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There was also a gnome in Black Isle's Icewind Dale series who flew (crashed) an airship; that was definitely a steampunk insertion into a standard issue D&D world.

More cowbell?

Totally agree about the visual nature of steampunk. I've always thought Terry Gilliam's films have a steampunk look (think 12 Monkeys, Brazil, etc.) and that aesthetic is one of the things I like about them.

They already had that, Diabeetus, (except that it was on E!, not Bravo): Lisa Loeb's lookin'-for-love show, No. 1 Single.

mulching

Are sabre-toothed tigers really cold weather animals, or do we just think that because of the one in Ice Age?

JVS, you don't really expect logic and internal consistency in a press release about adding sea monsters to a Jane Austen novel, do you? I'm all for holding people to high standards, but let's be realistic.

ricin, is that a list of necessary and sufficient conditions? I mean, do we need all four, or can we mix and match?

Lots of stuff sucks; lots doesn't. Outside doesn't suck. Many movies don't suck. The combination sucks. Movies are for inside; outside is for other things.

Totally agree about the cool Pearl Harbor trailer suckering me into an unbearably shitty movie. The shot where the camera follows the bomb down out of the plane onto the ship was awesome. The movie itself was a sneak attack of godawful crap. (In fairness, I should have known better than to trust the trailer.) The…

Hot Fuzz is brilliant. As is Point Break, which I watched for the nth time a couple of weekends ago. That movie never gets old.

Lemur, you should have just gone up to the Hog Penny and drunk Dark 'n' Stormies.

But it slows down the server and clutters up my inbox and I never actually get the lottery winnings.

"It is then that I will hit you doggy-style."

Looks like Chuck's takin' old one-eye to the optometrist.