I agree with Werner (whose voice is his passport). The first and second sequels, which are highly variable, are worth reading just to get to "Something Rotten. " I think Fforde's "Nursery Crime" books are more consistently funny than the Thursday Nexts.

Bettany played Stephen Maturin in "Master and Commander…" and Maturin is supposed to be an ugly, pinched little man. I guess Bettany is Hollywood ugly when they give him bad hair.

That doesn't speak well for your generation, nilus.

While we're dreaming, I'd much rather see Gilliam do the Nursery Crime books and Miyazaki do Thursday Next.

You wish, TS.

I sort of get why people complain about having to read Shakespeare, but that won't stop me from calling them lazy morons.

@ Doc Apocalypse- I don't listen to contemporary rap or country because I know I dislike 90% of the genres' output and I have better things to do with my time than to dig through music that annoys me in order to have sufficient pop culture cred to impress the obnoxious. Incidentally, I don't listen to Top 40, either.

Your favorite band sucks.

I don't like Spinal Tap as much as Waiting for Guffman, but I'd never say that Spinal Tap isn't awesome. And yes, Holy Grail/Dead Parrot social quoters should be slapped with fish. Or made to play tennis with a blancmange.

I'm with Hoodwink on many things, not least of which that Portal's very existence justifies the existence of video games. Anybody that blanket dismisses video games is not just in violation of Tasha's excellent genre principle, they clearly have no idea what they're missing and are to be pitied. And possibly mocked.…

It's true- hotness fades, but shitty taste lasts a lifetime.

But he still tells a mean goat fucking joke.

That was awesome.

Mmm. Sacrelicious.

I hope she tells him what an awesome running back he was.

Hey, wait a minute! Since when is Pismo Beach inside a cave?

So many acts, so few I'd be interested in seeing if it weren't the worst-conceived money-grubbing event of all time since Woodstock II.

I think she's all the hotter for knowing exactly which nerves will bring you the greatest pleasure or the greatest pain.

Yeppers, no Simpson's allowed when I was a kid, either. Oddly enough, I got my parents to watch South Park.

Just put a bit of "Fingertips" after each sentence.