Amongst my linguistic cohort, "dire" is most often used to describe animals which are even more primitive, bestial, and Pleistocene in mien than your normal critters - usually involving larger size (often double the mass or greater), shaggier fur, pointier fangs and sometimes larger or extraneous horns or antlers.

I prefer to refer to the KKK as if their name were an acronym, and not initialism.

Well, I think "PCOS" is probably the least sexy Google search I've ever done from a thread talking about boobs & butts.

My Dad listened to opera and classical.  The closest thing to a rock record we had in the house until I was about ten was ELP's "Tarkus".

My most hated Kid Rock song is that one he did with Sheryl Crow.  Mostly because he originally did it (and wrote it) with Allison Moorer, who is both more talented and much prettier than Sheryl Crow, and I think deserves to be better known.

Have you seen The Amazing Race Canada?

Something about "I've never seen a luggage rack on a hearse", belying the old bumper sticker saying of "He who dies with the most toys wins".

I was going to ask a question about sex pooping.

You mean Lord Endrodangorgi the Mechanical?  It will be so awesome when he finally shows up with his deadpan clockwork assistant Dave.

I'm not sure what a hob nob is, but considering the context it can't be what I think it is.

Mostly he was just too old.  And too blonde.

Even when they cast someone who seems completely opposite or totally wrong from how I envisioned the character (Thoros, Jojen, Mance), their choice has just knocked it out of the park.

I was thinking a grass hut or bower - like it had been made by a particular inept basket weaver.  The crappiest wicker chair in the Seven Kingdoms.

or perhaps the Good Ship Venus.

I was expecting the Mary Ellen Carter.  Or the lovely Athens Queen.  Perhaps even the Nightengale.

The Allies definitely thought that the results of Unit 731 and other Axis medical experiments would be valuable, and were certainly determined to keep the information and the scientists out of Soviet hands.

Actually, the Axis medical experiments were generally so poorly done, and more of the "how long can a person survive without skin" style of pure, unadulterated sadist shit that it didn't really add much usable medical knowledge at all, beyond "a person cannot survive long without skin".

You take that back!  What about Re?… no… um, wait… er.  What about Ta?… well no, I guess that was pretty stupid too, looking back on it.

For some reason, the Olivia Hussey Black Christmas has been showing up on at least once a week on TV for the last few months.  It's weird seeing Margot Kidder so hot, and John Saxon looking like he accidentally walked onto the wrong set, and has no clue what's going on.

It certainly is a better movie if you think of it as a Brian De Palma film with Tom Cruise as a superspy.  However, as a fan of Mission Impossible TV series, the movie was an absolute travesty - shitting on its source material harder than even Star Trek.