Yes, Lt, this is true… torture came into the game quite late, and is was basically long, long trials (you could be interrogated on the same subject at an interval of 30+ years!)…

Be fair, He had to din't he?

Great name, too, Drinky!

The Inqusition gag is also an example of a version of the 'Rule of Threes' :

No one expects a Pedantic, nit-picky (and possibly debatable) point!

I named my Iguana Spiny Norman…. He was so great.

Shit; I just met him a couple of years back and I really thought he was great. It was a big deal to me.

Over on Tony Ortega's blog The Bunker, the word it that this book is Gaiman's attempt to explain his childhood in $cientology to his wife, who asked and to whom the book is dedicated.

A person I know went to a massage parlour in Thailand where you choose the boys and girls (many ages, men and women too, etc) froma big rom behind glass and the massage therapists sat behind glass with nuymbers around ther necks (I should point out that this person was only 17) Presumably their credentials and medical…

Ahem: I'm sure your dad is a wonderful guy but there was EVERYTHING shameful about listening to Steve Perry in the '80s…

You're either on* the bus or off of the bus!
(or in this case train)**

Was Vasco the guy who invented the rays that pissed Bill Bixby off?

I thought 'fluxing" and 'coupling" meant the same thing…..

That's just wahat they WANT you to think!

The El Aurians are in a binary system with the EL Eitherians…

Tasha: Please more and longer analysis pieces like this one. I know it is out of favour at the site, and I like your writing in general, but you are at your best in analysis…

Ned WAS the protagonist, or one, anyway.. He just wasn't the 'hero' of the whole story…

But…I… Cometh…

I don't recognize the name, but I am impressed.

Someone has doubtless already set you right on this, but Olivier Marchal did not direct 'Ne Le Dis à Personne (Tell No One)"..