That's just professional courtesy, though. Putin would be a star on the Pro Wrestling circuit.

James Dillinger, the professional wrestler? He's dead?

Him, and Barnstable Bear from Pogo. He'd write poetry, advertising jingles, what have you, but since he couldn't read he had no idea what they said. Here's a sample:

And what floats apart from Republicans?

Can I take the cash value instead? I really don't have a place to put it (and parts of it would be hard to explain when company comes over).

When I was in New Orleans last year, I was talking to a guy who was playing with two dogs in a park. I asked him what the female's name was, and he said her name was Stella. I said, "Oh, right. I bet have the female animals in this city are named Stella. Is the other one named Stanley?"

It could also be the Greek goddess of youth (Roman: Juventus). Depends on whether you use one syllable or two.

The Climax is closely followed by the Denouement, as it should be, but both come before there's any real Development. What kind of storytelling puts the Payoff before the Setup? On the other hand, the Twist is positioned perfectly; near the end (after you thought there would be no more Surprises), but not so late…

Well, a) Dinesh has always been tremendously insecure and self-sabotaging, and b) as much as Dinesh hates Gilfoyle he knows from experience that Gilfoyle's worst-case predictions are usually (invariably?) right. Gilfoyle knows who serious-hacker MI4 actually "is" a lot better than Dinesh does (at this point, anyway).…

Like Richard's dream of a new internet, the Octopus Rift just happens to be the man Jin Yiang wants to fuck, and he's going to fuck that man as hard as he can.

"Man, what an actor H. Jon Benjamin is—-every one is so incredibly distinct."

It was going on before Suicide Squad. I first heard that I was supposed to hate him during the Dallas Buyer's Club run-up, and had it reinforced when he was rumored to be in contention for Dr. Strange. From what I hear about Leto as a person I can't say I'd look forward to meeting him, but for the life of me I see…

"I strongly suspect one of the theories surrounding the original Blade Runner - which was really irrelevant to the plot - will be explained to death in the sequel."

It IS worse, but I don't know if "trash panda" had been coined by the time Peter left earth. I've only heard it the last couple of years, and I'm old enough to remember when Peter's favorite music was new.

"That has to go to Iron Man and or all the Avengers at once."

"so they can murder/rape and anything but for some innocent reason only kids are off limits? while I think that's pretty stupid…"

They want you to wonder about that. They're a tricky bunch, those Asians.

I knew I should have qualified "SOME dogs" (I think they're all great, but some are more trainable than others).

That's freakin' incredible. You mean someone actually still reads a newspaper?!?

We've got enough South Asians in the SF Bay Area that I think we should start celebrating the Hindu festival Holi (the Festival of Colors). Throwing colored water and powders (washable, of course) over everything, music in the streets, a bonfire, and general mayhem/misrule (and of course we could throw drinking into…