Okay, so what phrases did everyone immediately search for? Mine were "steamed hams" and "crab juice".

An isosceles triangle has two sides of equal length. And you're correct, the Pythagorean theorem applies to right triangles and not isosceles triangles (unless they're also right triangles).

Just be thankful they didn't clarify by using the whole epithet, because I doubt you could have parsed "The Mountain that Rides to play the villain in the sequel to the Kickboxer reboot" any better.

These are good points.

I don't think Watchmen is a faithful adaptation. I think Watchmen is an interesting failure, in that the very strong source material shines through regardless of Snyder's mishandling of it; and the fact that Snyder both utterly loves the source material and utterly missed the point of any of it. (Spoilers follow)

Possession? For a dumb horror movie, that had some positivity and nuance. If I recall correctly. I don't know if it counts as a "not specifically Jewish" context.

I really like it. I'm coming to terms that I may be a fan of Abrams, lens flares, Dowd and all.

For sure. I googled the cloth demands of dresses and a full-length dress with sleeves, according to someone on the Internet, needed three yards. I figure some of that's wasted with cutting and whatnot which you really would want to avoid with gold, and as you say who knows what the cut of the finished product would…

For your information, 255 pounds of gold, in the amount required to make a dress, would have to be pounded into a foil somewhat lighter than heavy-duty aluminum foil (85 mils thick). I did the math. You're welcome.

Only kind of. Things seep in through social interaction. My son has show no interest in any Pokémon games or media, has never watched the show, had the cards or played the video games and neither have I but somehow we know the names of a bunch, and I'm not just talking about Dikachu.

Add 'no kids' to the things you're quite happy about, and how happy you can be about your consequent ignorance.

That's doubtful, but it's impossible to prove and it doesn't matter, because it's not relevant to why you are a loathsome and unwelcome person: in any situation, I would imagine, but certainly here.

They vary somewhat. Lego Indiana Jones 2 was a real bright spot. Smaller, more constrained puzzle-y levels, less limited by the narrative of the films, plus a level designer, it just worked almost perfectly.

> having rough sex on her honeymoon

Declaring a start year of 1968 as arbitrary, and convenient for limiting the scope of the column is perfectly valid, if he'd have said that. A single sentence supporting his assertions wouldn't be a thousand words, either. I'm saying he's offering no reasoning at all, not that his reasoning is flawed, incorrect or…

You could probably do a decent inventory of unexpected peaks: "best version of X is Y… no I'm not kidding". Muppet Treasure Island comes to mind.

No, because no reasoning is given for the statement "For the purposes of this column, action movies didn’t arrive in their modern and fully-formed state until the late ’60s." or "And there were movies that could be considered proto-action movies: John Sturges’ 1955 Bad Day At Black Rock, Hitchcock’s 1959 North By…

At a writer's workshop, the facilitator said, "you know you're getting lazy when you have a character cry, die or vomit." Like any guideline, it's not universally true, but it's pretty close.

This video teaches you something about quantum mechanics in the same way that the Ween song "Loop de Loop", from Spongebob Squarepants, teaches you how to tie your shoes.

I'm a "superfan", probably (well, I'm not weird about it) and, like many other people who are not frothing at the mouth on the Internet, I thought it was great and (mostly) and not arguing with the people decrying it.