Every once in a while I am reminded of how incredibly short Danny DeVito is. The most recent time I was reminded of this was just now, when I watched the home video above and realized that Mara Wilson was nearly as tall as him when she was playing Matilda.
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I'm still waiting for a scene in a Star Wars movie where a regular person picks up a lightsaber, tries to use it, and ends up accidentally killing one of their allies or slicing off their own leg.
*Kylo Ren, lightsaber wound scarring his face, falls to his knees as Rey holds the lightsaber above him, ready to strike again*
If anything, Luke's severed hand would be grasping a sign that reads "HE STOLE."
She's the illegitimate child of Obi-Wan and Force Ghost Amidala.
For some reason I'm reading this in the tone of voice Ernie Hudson uses in Ghostbusters when he says "that's a big Twinkie."
Philip Roth once wrote a novel about an English professor who transforms into a 200-pound breast. It has at least 3 positive blurbs.
Any humanities classes that attempt to teach this novel will be guilty of microaggression, as such a text assignment implies that a fetus is a human.
And "the flag," for all purposes in the pledge, is sublimated under the definitions we give to "the republic," as the flag is simply a symbol of the specific, conceptual understanding of the republic as defined in the pledge. So you're pledging to a symbol of a symbol of an idealized concept. Seems perfectly benign.
I'd say it sounds like a noble but misguided sentiment. I already said I didn't like "under God" in the pledge, though, so you're barking up the wrong tree here.
I think a sketchy understanding of grammar may have gotten you to your interpretation here. There's a colon after "the republic for which it stands," meaning that the next three terms (one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all) determine how the republic is being defined. Therefore, the entity to which…
Ugh, sorry, subordinate phrases, not qualifying clauses.
The qualifying clauses within the pledge directly state the ideals one is meant to uphold when pledging allegiance: unity, universal liberty, universal justice. Taken literally, they create a system of values that would be overtly hostile to any xenophobic strains of thought. I'd say the creator of the pledge did a…
There are certainly some instructive parallels between the Pledge and a prayer, but I think there's a difference of degree. One is a spiritual act of pure submission and devotion, the other is, "yeah, I agree this is a good idea." But you're right about the God part being an unfortunate addition in a country that…
It doesn't seem quite appropriate for the movies, as they are less of a communal participation than sports. Going to the movies is, in my experience at least, much more of an individualistic thing—if the movie's doing its job, you forget about the people around you and focus on what's onscreen. Sports attendance seems…
No we aren't, I'm in the mountains where, as I mentioned earlier, games start at 11! Fortunately, once I got out of college, I discovered that there are parts of the morning that occur before 10:00, and there are even church services during this previously-unknown period of time.
As I mentioned 2 comments or so up, I think it's a good place. It's the presence of a peaceful and prosperous state that allows 50,000+ people in most major cities to spend six hours of their day in a stadium watching a bunch of millionaires play a game, to say nothing of the infrastructure needed to fund that stadium…
Church tends to be in the morning, and there's one set of football games that begin at 1pm EST, another set that begin at 4:30pm EST, and one game at night. I'm sure some church services overlap with the games, but anybody who wants to go to church and see a game has plenty of opportunity to do so.
"the reflective quality is worth mentioning in any discussion on the National Anthem, but how often is that really on ones thoughts? It's mostly routine and habit."