Poker chips are nothing more than a handy visual means of keeping score.

I never understood that. Supposedly the Ferengi were supposed to be the new recurring villain, yet they were ridiculous from the get-go.

I thought Code of Honor was worse ("You shall have no VOK-SEEN, and no Lt. YAR" — my friends and I referred to it as the "crisp and clean with no vahk-cine" episode) than TNN, but maybe that was because of the ridiculous rascism. The writers p[robably thought they were being cool, having a WHOLE PLANET RUN BY BLACK…

Even if he is in favor of a public option?

Ch-ch-ch-Cherry Bowl!
Sorry. Had to be done.

After watching that Mandy Moore video
I feel like I should turn myself in to the cops. My God, Rabin, I didn't think it was possible, but you actually underplayed the amount of jailbait creepiness oozing out of the thing.

I've had three Danes (not all at once) and they are generally pretty laid back dogs. Granted they are more likely to eat a couch than eat a pillow, but still. Very loveable.

Voyager is best watched vicariously.

Saw the trailer for this last week
And was surprisingly charmed. Glad to see it might be as worthwhile as it appeared.

WOAI is now an all-talk station now ain't it? With Limbaugh, Beck, and the rest of that unholy bunch?

I'd say Dwight Yoakum was a revelation
But I grew up listening to classic country on KKYX, an AM station out of San Antonio, because that was what my parents listened to and I did not have control of the car radio dial. Or my own radio that would pick up anything other than more country stations until around 1982.…

Hmmmmmm
[faux-clever remark which attempt to make a subtle reference to being first poster]

Hmmm
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I think he's talking about The Hobbit, Donkey.

Yeah, well, I'm looking at the book right now, and it's nearly the exact same line: "The Eagles are coming! The Eagles are coming!" Pippin even thinks 'wow, that's just like Bilbo's story' before he conks out. Which neatly coincides with what happens to Bilbo in The Hobbit, as he gets knocked out right at that moment…

How the hell can you steal something that's in the damn book?

A valid point Dunk. JRR liked to play the "I'm just translating this stuff" game. He even ret-conned some bits about the Ring in Hobbit when he decided to make it The One Ring, passing it off as corrections made to The Red Book of Westmarch.

Sorry Elrond, but you're a public figure.

It's two movies, remember, so there could some females in the non-Hobbit parts. Elrond's wife, for example, who was nabbed by orcs. Aragorn's mom. Perhaps some Gondor babes. And they could always gin up a romance plot for Bard the Bowman.

Kids book or not, the degree to which the dwarves are not only useless, but active drags on the success of the venture starts to grate after a while. Tough s stone warriors, hoping to somehow take on a dragon, and they do some of the stupidest shit you could ever hope to see in a fantasy novel. One wonders if Tolkien…