Dead aliens in "Repo Man"?

Frank Herbert apparently complained about Star Wars ripping off Dune, but both were just similar examples of a very long line of stories. Joseph Campbell explains this in "Hero With 1,000 Faces."

Over the Hedge is really quite good. I still find it very entertaining after multiple viewings.

Ender's Game Credibility Gap **Spoiler**
My biggest problem with Ender's Game? Huge credibility issue as to the basic premise: why the heck would the military/industrial complex ever admit they were incompetent to deal with the Buggers, and thus needed help from a kid? That is not how those leaders (or any other…

Deja vu all over again!

It's about slippin' and slidin' at the waterfall

Secret Service is probably advertising for some contract temps already. They need to staff up.

The demand for conformity is universal — left, right and center — beginning no later than middle school.

More than Baracking the Bavote. To misquote Falco:

Customers love that pseudo-indie hipster 'tude
Making the tude part of the corporate job is a clever little gimmick. It also reminds me of Coffee of Doom in questionablecontent.net

In elementary school, there were boys who would stop running when it looked like a girl would win the footrace. They would try to look non-chalant, and convey the message that, "Meh, this race is not important enough for me to really take it seriously."

Gold lame? Fabulous!

You almost never end up on a jury if you are familiar with current events and hold opinions. If you do not meet these criteria, then it is probably best that you refrain from voting.

I know a six-year old who voted in a mock election at school yesterday: George Washington v. Abe Lincoln.

laziest costume, attempt 2
One year I went to a party dressed as my older brother. I just put on some of his more distinctive clothes from his closet. It worked, and I won the prize, because the whole group knew my brother. I thought that was my laziest costume ever.

Laziest costume?

Sounds like a great costume. It's a shame that you'll have to go to Hell for all eternity now. But I'm sure it was worth it.

Maybe one of the fictional stops from Gaiman's "Neverwhere"?

if you have to carry a laptop so that people can google your character, then you are thinking wayyy too hard.

Hustling online
So you're saying that, if I wanted to hustle online, I should register with a name that references this movie and occasionally mis-use the terminology, in addition to mis-playing a few early hands?