It always surprises me anew when I remember that sperm + egg = baby is a relatively recent discovery. The truth is so simple and elegant and even beautiful when compared to desperate theories about homunculi and so forth.

As someone said in the last Martin-related thread, he is not really that old, and obesity does not invariably lead to an early death.

It is interesting that four of the five intended survivors have become the major fan favorites. (And Martin himself seems to like Bran, even if he has been less embraced by the fanbase.) Maybe he is more of a softy than previously thought. (Or he has changed his mind and all five of these characters will die…

Not the same without the whip: https://www.youtube.com/wat… (I think the Johns have admitted to this.)

Yes, they do sound alike.

The Chiffons were not a Spector group.

This morning I watched some of the post-9/11 episodes of Saturday Night Live that were airing as part of the VH1 Classic marathon. They were a very interesting historical document. (As Letterman/Leno/etc. also would be if they were easily available.) Anthrax was prominent. (Also, I think Jimmy Fallon was six years…

Apparently Mississippi has the highest percentage of vaccinated children of any state! http://www.bloomberg.com/vi… (The list in general is all over the place poltiically; it is hard to discern any real pattern.)

Actually, isn't there a plan to release further Salinger manuscripts? Or was that just a rumor?

Did anyone see that Cracked article that noted that one of the few groups it is still considered socially acceptable to mock (besides virgins and the obese) is mentally ill celebrities?

I so intrigued by this and I looked hard to find your source, and alas, it was one of those unfunny Onion imitators. (A different article on the same site declared Eugene Levy "sexiest man alive.")

It was the kind of rhetoric/language that was used. It was directed toward nudists as people rather than nudity as a thing. "They're all around us," that kind of thing. But I concede that it was likely subconscious/unintentional.

There was also a Civil War one in there, I think (I assume more likely to be focused on the home front than the battlefield).

But…

I remember the episode where he was afraid of nudists, which came across as clearly a euphemism/stand-in for homosexuals. They could hardly do that for real, not just because of modern sensibilities but also because of the San Francisco setting!

And it had only been seven years since she left the show!

I think maybe we were supposed to think "baby" = "married" (or at least in a relationship - no idea if she had a wedding ring).

I had a vinyl record of Pinocchio that I think I had belonged to my father when he was a kid. I think the scene was even worse without visuals.

The title lives on as the name of a VH1 Classic program that generally airs at 4:00 A.M. There is no host and it tends to play stuff that had at least one foot in the mainstream, not some of the real obscurities mentioned in these comments.

Does anyone remember if this prophecy came true?