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Is Bob Barker still alive? I thought he was dead.

Wasn't there also a possibility of flashbacks? Lot of that stuff was home-made.

Martin Gardner also died (last weekend), and no RIPs here for him.

Too bad they didn't have a clip of the testicle kid. He was saying something about how an octopus wraps its testicles around you, and that was the end of that conversation.

If CGI has made any remake of a movie worthwhile, a good Day of the Triffids will be that movie. The Brits will have to do it, though, because Hollywood will ruin it.

If you're working some place where your idiot boss has installed a claw machine, and you have the right type of vacuum cleaner, and you work the graveyard shift, and you have some time when there aren't any customers, you can empty the machine pretty quickly, but you have to share the toys with anyone who's working

Speaking of time travel, someone needs to option The Technicolor Time Machine (aka The Time Machine Saga) by Harry Harrison and turn it into a movie.
It has Vikings! and a large-breasted blonde actress! and great character roles for lots of good actors.

Collapse by Jared Diamond.

I think the speaker deliberately flipped the original quotation since it comes after he talks about all the overlapping intel agencies working to stop terrorist attacks.
I'm not saying I agree with him—I just think he said it on purpose.

Horses, not horsepower.
I think I'll get some t-shirts made up.

I laughed out loud.

Leprechauns eat Lucky Charms, which are magically delicious.

You really can't go wrong by asserting that something's going to happen and then more things are going to happen.

Speaking of Russia and terrorists and dirty bombs, the bigger threat, and one much more plausible, is the disaster that would follow if some bad group got Russian bio-engineered smallpox from one of the labs that developed it.
In a suicide run, a few jihadists could infect themselves and get on airplanes going all over

Even in Texas, in Walmart you can get alcohol (beer and wine) and guns and ammo. One-stop shopping at its apex.

Even in Texas, in Walmart you can get alcohol (beer and wine) and guns and ammo. One-stop shopping at its apex.

Seven daggers is an awkward number. You want your place settings in multiples of 4.

I thought of Soylent Green, too, but I think the name of the novel is more appropriate and to the point: Make Room, Make Room.

Try Walmart.