I would totally watch that.

Sweetwater, TX has an annual Rattlesnake Round Up - though I don't know how much whacking is done these days, milking Rattlesnakes is seen as more profitable and challenging, although they are eaten more frequently so at least some whacking is getting done - and the state rep from Sweetwater always holds a mini-round…

Sweetwater, TX has an annual Rattlesnake Round Up - though I don't know how much whacking is done these days, milking Rattlesnakes is seen as more profitable and challenging, although they are eaten more frequently so at least some whacking is getting done - and the state rep from Sweetwater always holds a mini-round…

Yeah, we know from various scenes from the future that Bart will be both a Supreme Court Justice and a highly influential religious leader.

Yeah, we know from various scenes from the future that Bart will be both a Supreme Court Justice and a highly influential religious leader.

As a Catholic schoolboy in a town where most schools (even indirectly the public ones) were solidly fundamentalist I loved the joke!

As a Catholic schoolboy in a town where most schools (even indirectly the public ones) were solidly fundamentalist I loved the joke!

I adore Homer's Bruce Lee-esque whacking prep work.

I adore Homer's Bruce Lee-esque whacking prep work.

Terri has her moments where the competency she's worked so hard to bury comes through.

Terri has her moments where the competency she's worked so hard to bury comes through.

Peter, though, one senses is like a porpoise or sea mammal, from time to time he has to come up for air.

Peter, though, one senses is like a porpoise or sea mammal, from time to time he has to come up for air.

Well, it's shockingly how often making ideas is easy where naming them is hard.

Well, it's shockingly how often making ideas is easy where naming them is hard.

Well, I think he was speaking to a pretty specific audience, there, but, yeah, I've taken the lesson of hearing TS Elliot read his own poetry to heart. A living master of the dead word is often dead as a speaker of the living word.

Well, I think he was speaking to a pretty specific audience, there, but, yeah, I've taken the lesson of hearing TS Elliot read his own poetry to heart. A living master of the dead word is often dead as a speaker of the living word.

I think there is an argument to be made that one is either an Anathem fan or a Baroque Cycle fan. Everything you said about the BQ, Mikosqz, I would have applied to Anathem. I like both but I think BQ is by far the more interesting, ambitious, and fun work.

I think there is an argument to be made that one is either an Anathem fan or a Baroque Cycle fan. Everything you said about the BQ, Mikosqz, I would have applied to Anathem. I like both but I think BQ is by far the more interesting, ambitious, and fun work.

Initially I was off put by this entirely uncharitable comment, but then I saw that it was by Professor_Cuntburglar and realized I had stepped into the wrong class altogether.