Yeah that horrible facsimile of Tom Hanks still creeps me out.  I'm glad Dexter killed him.

No, but did you hear about the elementary school girl who dressed in a stripper outfit and shook her ass to "Superfreak" and then her entire family joined her on stage?

I wish I could tell you that Bilbo fought the good fight, and the Troll Sisters
let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but Middle Earth is no fairy-tale
world.

I don't know why Jackson is even bothering when we already have this:  http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Are you saying that Paula Poundstone's milk shake no longer brings all the boys to the yard?

Up in the Air would have been so much better with snipers.

I loved those credits but it always bugged me that Busy Phillips got left out.

I enjoyed it once I was able to shift gears.  It is jarring when you go in with expectations of The Bourne Identity and get The Passenger instead

I hiked the Appalachian Trail a few years ago and was surprised by how abruptly the culture(if not the politics) went from southern to northern when I walked into Pennsylvania.  Most notably Taromina's Family Restaurant  on US 30 was the first decent slice of pizza I had in the thousand miles from Springer Mountain…

@JMP   Once you get outside the cities you'd be surprised how closely the attitudes of Pennsylvanians line up with those southerners.  Pennsylvania was described by James Carville as “Philadelphia on one end, Pittsburgh on the other, with Alabama in the middle."

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Up until last week, I'd gone my entire life thinking the The Mason Dixon Line was just the Pennsylvania-Maryland border.  It was just pointed out to me that it also includes the Maryland-Delaware border and is more accurately The Mason Dixon Right Angle.

And a very Lazenby Christmas everyone!

Great list including some of my favorites: Father Christmas, Christmas Wrapping and Christmas in Hollis.   I'd like to mention my favorite- Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan's version of Baby It's Cold Outside especially since it inexplicably made the list of worst songs. 
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Also Merry…

RIP Christopher Hitchens a personal hero ever since I saw him debate Charlton Heston during the first Gulf War and despite his support of the second. 

No, this is definitely a Christmas present for Bill Hader and Lorne Michaels.

Yep, for whatever drama was squeezed from the double elimination, the unfairness of Nyesha's elimination for Dakota's mistake soured me on the whole episode.

"Horseshoes and Hand Grenades", isn't that the working title for the upcoming movie "War Horse".

Years ago I was visiting my conservative uncle.  He started preparing sweet and sour drumsticks for dinner and my young cousins started chanting in unison, "Chink-y chicken! chink-y chicken!"  Adorable.

Hating on Christmas Cookie Pancakes?  Amelie's heart must be three sizes too small.  Luckily, after only a few visits to Denny's, it will be greatly enlarged.