"the crappiest Friend"
There's where you're wrong—Matt LeBlanc took the worst character on the show, the one with the least potential, and by the end of the series had made him remarkably funny. You can practically see the actor growing into the role, and it's possible to squint your eyes and pretend that it's…

"SPEAK TO"

I wondered about that, and I have heard it pronounced that way, but I didn't realize it was a standard thing (sounds wrong to me). That only makes it more interesting though—Is it that the Romance languages use iambic names for males while the northern Europeans use trochaic? Is there something behind this?

You know who else has a sexy combination of letters for a name? Doualy Xaykaothao.

That name again.

Was that a prozeugma?

JCrowemancer—being gratuitous and then stepping back and saying you did it to make some kind of larger point is just a case of an exploitation flick wanting to have its rape and beat it too.

I don't think of Bill Murray's 80's persona as asshole exactly—not in 'Stripes' or 'Meatballs' or 'Ghostbusters', anyway. He was irreverent, sure, immature, of course, self centered—but a good guy, basically. I think that's true of the Belushi slob parts, too—and the whole Chevy Chase persona. It was a dominant trope…

"They invented civilisation"

Whatever you think of her as an actor or a person, you have to admit that "Zooey Deschanel" is the sexiest combination of letters ever to make up a name.

Miller, that was funny for all the right reasons.

"the heart of all Rodriguez's films"

Cue up the Starship:

an observation before I read the article
(Nobody will care about this apart from me but) In American and English (read: WASP) naming traditions the overwhelming majority of male names are trochaic—i.e. they put the stress on the the first of two syllables—DA-vid, MI-chael, I-an. This is not true of even the equivalent…

Disco is the soundtrack of the Gay liberation movement of the 70's.

Wasn't Klaus Nomi, in a sense, already a Lego Klaus Nomi?

Hey, Donna Summer defined her era and her genre and transcended a producer's genre to record concept albums full of gorgeous material that she wrote. To some people (yeah, the Gays) Donna Summer was every bit as liberating a force as Iggy's peanut butter shenanigans.

::Takes off waistcoat, rolls up shirtsleeves, balls up fists and braces for fisticuffs::

(glibly) Jimmy Cliff's alright—as far as he goes—but he's no Toots Hibbert…

"At least in other fields—sports especially—there's empirical data to consider"