She stole every scene she was in in The Good Girl. I watched the credits mainly to learn her name.

I wonder if she ever found love. At least she as lives on the avatar of Dr. Robuttnik.

Jim Bowie actually did pronounce it that way.

She looks older in the yearbook photo.

It has its moments. It isn't exactly good, but it isn't unwatchable.

It is weird to think of Pauline Kael reviewing The Breakfast Club, although I knew she was still alive and active then.

More like Billy but not Bill. (Obviously this could go on forever.) (Or was this a Billy Corgan allusion?)

Gingrich was for a brief moment (1994-95, from the Contract with America until the government shutdown) a real leader (for good or ill), able to get his party a majority and mobilize it behind a specific and detailed agenda. Being a rather grandiose guy, he probably did fantasize about himself as being the prime…

After Rand Paul came to prominence, it occurred to me that it is rather odd that "Randy," not "Rand," is the standard nickname for Randal(l)/Randolph even for adults. It is as if it we had Jimmy but not Jim, Danny but not Dan, Ricky but not Rick, etc.

There is an apocryphal gospel with a plot not too different from that:

Great minds think alike.

I liked both these comments! There must be some way to find a happy medium.

I was trying to make the point that the definition has changed over time. Whatever it may mean in the world at large in 2015 is different from what it meant in my high school in 1995. (And it probably also has varied according to place, at least before it became such a widely used word. If you were also in high…

In the 1990s, as far as I can remember, it basically meant "Book smart but socially awkward person." I remember it as being only moderately linked with science fiction or fantasy and not at all with comic books.

They don't suddenly appear out of the woodwork to friend you on Facebook?

My understanding (having never actually watched The Brady Bunch Variety Hour) is that Replacement Jan was similar in appearance to and had the same basic personality as Real Jan. So it is fair to say that this was going for the funnier joke rather than being slavishly literal.

Norm won $500,000 on Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and should have won the million - he knew the answer but let Regis talk him into being cautious.

I do not consider the Black Sea to be truly "inland." My instinctive answer was the right answer, but I kept wondering if it was a trick or just a poorly written clue.

"Carol's defacing priceless artwork was a crime. Phil was the only one who seemed to care about art."

Especially since Grammer is already Sideshow Bob.