The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.

The Eagles in LOTR are more than a little symbolic of divine intervention.

I'm too late to this article, so no one will read this, but..

BOOOO

I never posted much here, but definitely read all the reviews and comments. Great time everyone.

When the random Russian spies were found living in the US a few years ago (Anna Chapman et al.), didn't it turn out that they had been listening to numbers stations? Maybe I just made that up because it would be awesome, but I seriously thought I read that.

I never got the impression Tom Scholz enjoyed playing live, or, you know, his fellow band members. I think he would be happy writing his music and having it played by robots.

Need to eat a Concord grape. After eating one of those, I thought "oh, that's what grape candy is trying to taste like".

My favorite story about Arianism is when St. Nicholas punched Arius in the face at Nicaea. Why this part didn't make it into the Santa Claus story I have no idea.

What about fucking Beethoven? Track one, side one, of the Fifth Symphony?

It's properly formatted "Middle-earth", with the hyphen and lowercase e.

"needlessly inserting France into the supply chain" is pretty much the point of Grey Goose. Someone or other came up with the idea "hey, I bet if we mark up vodka 200%, morons will pay it!", and then decided "let's make it in France, because people think good things come from France."

It has been twenty years since I've seen that episode, so maybe I'm making this up, but I had the impression those two guys the Enterprise encountered were the last of their species? Because they had all killed each other in a race war or whatever. And even the last two left couldn't put it aside.

I dunno, if anything I'd give more credit to the US.

How long can you tread water? Ha ha ha ha ha.

Football related rather than baseball, but:

"gritty" doesn't just mean "white", though that's part of it. It also means "not very good at baseball but has 'intangibles'". The prototypical "gritty" player is David Eckstein.

Fast kickin', low scorin' and ties? You bet!

Right. And the "lipstick" part: it's not "ew, a grown-up woman!", it's *vanity*. Maybe automatically picking a female character to be vain is sexist in that vague way but a lot of people blow it out of proportion.

If I remember right, the bit about "what lies or threats brought them here" is from Sam's internal thoughts in the book — Peter Jackson et al. gave the lines to Faramir to monologue for the movie.