I think they were college friends who started committing terrorist acts against Rossum. They blew up a Rossum lab, got caught in the explosion and Caroline abandoned Bennett. Rossum then co-opted Bennett, partly for intelligence on the terrorists attacking them, partly because she was very intelligent. And motivated…

White Teeth was her first novel, yes?

I believe the term is beard….

@Captain Giggles, Oprah may be a sexual being, but your use of the word straight is wildly inappropriate.

Moses, MD, I'd agree with Dawkins and you that any good Bishop would have no problem with evolution, but the true difficulty lies with natural selection. The intelligent design crowd accept the idea of evolution, but what makes Darwin's work such a breakthrough is that it proposes natural selection. This repudiates…

Early next year I will be moving from Chicago to Atlanta, and this thread makes me much happier about that prospect. I ate at Floataway Cafe last time I was there, and that was great.

Holland Oates, I believe that you have mistaken one asian for another asian. Don't worry, it doesn't make you a racist. Hung and Dale were programmed to be interchangeable.

Shawshank is mystifyingly overrated. It's an OK film, but a terrible book adaptation. Any movie that relies on reading chunks of the source material as voice over to hammer home a point is a failure. Show, don't tell, it's the basic tenet of film making and this throws it out the fucking window.

I'd tell the guy to come back the next day, and when he came back I would have the police or FBI waiting to arrest the sick fuck. Then I'd hire an agent, contact the media, and sell my weird-ass story, then turn it into a screenplay and make a fuck lot more than a million dollars.

Too lazy to hit the i key, apparently.

Another take…
…on the comment "Another Thing isn't the novel fans may have wanted, but it's the best that could be hoped for under the circumstances" is that the best that could be hoped for under the circumstances of the death of a beloved, cultish author is that his work be left the fuck alone.

With you on the beautiful corpse idea, and that's partly because I 'm from the UK. It's like Fawlty Towers, an iconic sitcom with a huge influence and appeal, and there were only 12 episodes.

And Sierra. And Boyd, of course.

The corpse disposal scene reminded me very much of Shallow Grave, not quite as gruesome, but pretty much nearly so.

Great challenge, it should definitely become a regular one. I imagine that if they did it earlier in the season it would be a bit of a hilarious clusterfuck, so if they want to play it for laughs that will be a great way to go.

As I remember it part of the reason Radhika went was because as leader she decided not to cook anything, and didn't coordinate anything. With Laurine she did become responsible for leading the team as she stated that she would exercise quality control on everything coming out of the kitchen, but absolutely failed to…

Jewosityness.

The only thing that really went wrong with Intolerable Cruelty was the casting of Catherine Zeta-Jones. But then that's true of pretty much any moving starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Limbaugh's still fat. Just not fat compared to his audience.

If critical mass is safety in numbers why doesn't it happen twice a day?