I despise Manilow and everything he's written. Copacabana throws me into an uncontrollable rage - thirty years have passed and I still can't even appreciate it ironically and laugh at it like I can, say, Captain and Tennile.

@Idi NH2, you're thinking of Gloria Jones.

Thank you Space Pope, as always the final word on things spacey and theological. Spatheological.

He wanted a currency based on intellectual property instead of gold.

Stuff that has "…no real bearing on society and dont actually produce anything, except for their own sense of self-satisfaction" pretty much describes everything in the developed world.

He's just a blatant rip off of The Human Neutrino.

Ecudorsal.

Thing quotes
Goddam Swedes.

"Cautiously optimistic"
…seems like the wrong phrase. Maybe you should try "in complete denial".

@ET, that made me laugh. "Limbo" would scan better, but I don't think its as theologically valid.

As a "Piven" is a measure of intensity, the "Dane" is a measure of exposure. One Dane is equal to one Piven per kilogram. OHSC regulations permit an exposure of no greater than .05 Dane per year.

I've worked on farms - people don't realize that produce grows in *dirt*. Seriously though, when the farmers around here spread manure you can smell it for *miles* around - I doubt many city folk realize just how filthy the farms that grow their food are.

@ZMF, I'm not sure I understand - first you say that you don't care about things at a population level, then you talk about how "America" wins. Do you think America is an individual? *America's* health is dictated by the crap it eats - sky-high levels of obesity, diabetes, heart disease; this is the legacy of…

Brendan Fraser is HAMURABI!

Yes, I would say it was an inspired piece of writing.

ZMF, you're being a bit ingenuous - you know that things like BMI really only work in terms of populations, not individuals and that high BMI in a population means high mortality, full stop. Besides, you might have arterial plaques that are flowing through your system yourself, just waiting to get lodged in a…

I'm still working on my "King of Kensington"/"Prince of Darkness" crossover "Prince of Kensington", as well as "The Littlest Cujo"

I'm waiting for Stray Toasters from the Brothers Quay.

I vaguely recall that Brian Orser thing. Is figure skating still that ridiculous?

@Kirk, Ahab wasn't pissed because the whale took off his leg you know.