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Pretentious Guy
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It's better than being hooked on phonics.

What if he directed a comic book movie starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost?

And that kid who knew how the espresso machine worked!

Clearly you've never been a supervillain. It's all about the theatricality.

My wife is the same. One of the inadvertent best moves I ever made was switching cable companies recently and losing one of Lifetime's offshoots that ran reruns so I no longer get daily episodes of Dance Moms in my home about the time I come home from work every day. And if this decision in any way, shape, or form

I was more of a Professor Whoosit.

Which is what I keep telling him to no avail.

I'm still trying to talk my brother into Arrow, but he keeps saying something about Smallville and refusing.

Might want to avoid seeing what "Metropolis" translates to from the Greek if that bothers you…

Or Dexter.

Well, Iran Contra was Reagan's, so the Great Saint can't possibly have a black mark on him, just like his tax increases and immigration policies don't quite match the modern GOP, and no one died over Watergate. I figure you're right about Teapot Dome being a big question mark for most Americans, though.

Another thing about Custer's death: he had a pretty widow who was more than willing to keep the guy's public memory alive.

A friend of mine used to work as an audience co-ordinator for various talk shows (basically, the number to call for free tickets if you're in the area was her office number), and she said Geraldo was actually a cool guy to work for, very nice and good to his staff. Montel Williams was a whole different story.

Um, why?

Yeah, but that sounds like giving someone a title instead of a raise.

According to my siblings, the tall man in the small car is me before I was able to actually buy a decent sized car, from style of speech to tone…I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Or so they would have you believe.

Atlas Shrugged VI: Almost Done That Speech

No, but L. Ron had his own brand of child abuse going on. The near slave-trade level nonsense that is the Sea Org may not be killing any kids, but it's not for lack of trying.

They can't afford him.