Those are dead serious.

Well, I was thinking of the Pequot War, which killed a whole lot of Native Americans in 1636. That was a different tribe from the Native Americans that met with the Pilgrims back then, though, so I guess it depends on how you look at it.

Eh, I wouldn't really say Thanksgiving is meant to stand in for the entire history of native-colonist relations. The "first thanksgiving" to the extent that it actually happened was relatively peaceful. The genocidal aspects of it didn't start for like, ten more years.

Yeah, it gives the joke more of a logical progression. It starts out with by relatively efficiently putting "Terror Lake" onto one elephant, and then it draws it out more and more so the extra elephants are mildly surprising instead of just an inevitable result of the grammar.

Yeah, it gives the joke more of a logical progression. It starts out with by relatively efficiently putting "Terror Lake" onto one elephant, and then it draws it out more and more so the extra elephants are mildly surprising instead of just an inevitable result of the grammar.

"Too Many Pinkie Pies" is a far too silly title, even for a cartoon for little girls.

"Too Many Pinkie Pies" is a far too silly title, even for a cartoon for little girls.

Well, she was in Mastermind and the English dub of Ponyo.

Well, she was in Mastermind and the English dub of Ponyo.

If the fact that nobody actually uses "buffalo" as a verb anymore won't hold back linguists, nothing will.

If the fact that nobody actually uses "buffalo" as a verb anymore won't hold back linguists, nothing will.

"In the latest installment of the popular Twilight Saga, Jacob Black (left) falls in love with Resesmee Cullen (right)."

"In the latest installment of the popular Twilight Saga, Jacob Black (left) falls in love with Resesmee Cullen (right)."

But she grows up at an accelerated speed, so that makes it not creepy.

But she grows up at an accelerated speed, so that makes it not creepy.

Hmm… I guess Nintendo would be a company that's pushing in the other direction, even though they're also strongly embracing touchscreens.

Hmm… I guess Nintendo would be a company that's pushing in the other direction, even though they're also strongly embracing touchscreens.

They should just make a movie based on Splash Mountain.

They should just make a movie based on Splash Mountain.

I didn't mean it that way. I was just preemptively responding to the aforementioned nerds who might panic about that sort of thing, that women being a part of Star Wars is perfectly normal. The word "womenfolk" was sort of a sarcastic way of addressing that.