Has anyone mentioned yet how the young pre-stroke Tio's chair was designed to prefigure a wheelchair?

I agree that it was Fring operating through Mike—Because as long as the cousins are around (and now that Gale is on his way out) Walter-and by extension Fring's operation—will always be in jeopardy from them.

Oh, I absolutely get that, but it doesn't speak well for either the company or those who would use it. It's like the whole David Spade/Adam Sandler comic persona—being a dick is not funny, it's just dickish.

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Personally, I think Danny Boyle's ceiling baby is even creepier for being so plastic looking—it's like one of those wind-up crawling baby toys we had as kids.

If Stewie were still matricidal it would be worth including, but the preponderance of Stewie humor these days is about how a precocious, probably homosexual baby might (mis)understand the adult world. It's funny at times, but kind of obvious, and I miss the old evil genius routine.

Laurie Anderson's 'The Mailman's Nightmare':

Is it a "Baby" mask though? or a modified Okame Noh mask? Consider this:

The worst thing about them is that they are inadvertently parodying their own clientele—It's not babies acting like sophisticated, responsible adults, it's babies acting like immature, emotionally stunted and/or infantile adults. In other words babies acting like babies, but with bigger vocabularies.

That Mel would go so far to achieve scriptural accuracy and then for some reason throw in an obvious nod to his own Cathoholic DT's is just one more reason not to like 'The Passion'.

I was just making the point that if Ozzy was using it in that sense at that time, he probably wouldn't have spelled it with a "d".

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I vote for 'This Land is Your Land' with the original private property lyrics.

"Is there any country whose national anthem doesn't have torturous lyrics?"

Still, I'd like to hear the runners up.

I think you're mostly right about Duran, and that is symptomatic of cryptic 80's New Romantic style lyrics (see also Culture Club, The Fixx, INXS et. al.) but don't tell me you don't know what 'Union of the Snake' is about.

Call me rabbit fighter.

OK Brits—a compromise: I can accept the extra syllable in aluminum but not in specialty. We cool?

The word is "kine".

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That's typical of Beyonce's composition style—the use of a pronoun with multiple and changing unspecified antecedents. For example, from Destiny's Child's 'Soldier':