My favorite comment recently was by @beigealert, on the DS9 board. There was a discussion of technobabble in Star Trek (e.g., "Let's reroute primary power through the deflector array and blah blah blah!!") and jokes about how Picard and Professor Xavier were really the same person, and he could walk the whole time.

I'm so sorry, that's horrible!

I have some of those I haven't used yet— any recipe suggestions?

Now I'm imagining Stephen Fry talking exclusively in Cookie Monster syntax…

Maybe you need one of these Victorian contraptions that roasts meat on a spit in front of the fireplace:

The graphic novel version is seriously devastating. I just read that about a year ago.

I just came back from a trip to Cleveland with a ton of fabulous food— Hungarian goulash and dumplings, extremely potent garlic sausage, double-smoked kielbasa, cookies from Little Italy, sturgeon from a Jewish deli, etc. It's like Assorted Ethnic Food Central in my house.

That's pretty dramatic! Did you end up getting along?

My grandfather running a red light in the car (while taking me to daycare and being late for work), and saying, "Now, never do that!"

I don't know if it's the one you mean, but a lot of my British friends were traumatized by a post-nuclear-explosion film called "When the Wind Blows". (I've read the story but haven't seen the film, so I don't know if it's in black and white).

(stares hungrily) I like my meat a little more lean. I'd rather eat Hodges!

That scene freaked me out considerably, too. There was some scary stuff in that film.

My daycare center showed us Poltergeist when I was 7 or so. (This was in the early days of VCRs, and they didn't have a lot of movies). That scene with the guy's face figured in my nightmares for a long time, but I didn't even realize it was from that movie until I saw it again recently. Yikes.

I saw the movie "Brazil" when I was about 7. (My stepmom's dad liked to show inappropriate R-rated movies to kids). I don't remember it terribly well, but all the torture scenes were horrifying enough to me that I've never been able to watch it again.

I started reading that book when I was about 10 (no idea why, I guess I thought it might have a connection with chocolate bars).

Actually, I love the movie The Innocents, but I'm not sure which specific scene you're talking about- there's a lot of great lighting. You mean the part with Quint's face at the window or (the scariest part for me) where Miss Jessel passes by briefly in the hallway?

That's such a great film. Very unsettling.

As a third-generation pinko atheist, I'd have to say the movie was never particularly scary or shocking for me. I found the whole thing (including all the stuff the priests did to try to save her soul) pretty ridiculous.

I never found The Exorcist remotely scary, even when I saw it as a kid (and I'm a pretty big fraidy cat, when it comes to movies). Maybe you have to be Catholic.

Ha! I love that bit with the suitcase and the little knife. (sawing noises)