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Whoo-hoo, two day weekend!

I don't think Beaton's so much "obsessed" with Canada as "grew up and lives there."

This is already documented fact: https://www.hulu.com/watch/…

And in their initial introduction ("The Last Outpost"), it was made clear they were supposed to be 18th Century New Yorkers, so… oops, back to the anti-semitic stereotypes.

I consider anything made before I turned 18 to be "vintage."

Not all. The kid ate 7 pieces and looked *adorable* doing it.

My parents have the same story about me, but it was Empire Strikes Back, and furthering the subliminal aspect, it was at a drive-in movie, so the screen was washed out and about all you could see were flashes of blaster bolts and lightsabers.

"Soccer" was originally a British-ism (short for "Association Football," as opposed to "Rugby Football"). So it's a term used throughout the British Commonwealth; i.e., everywhere English is spoken. Many of those countries have migrated to "football" in the intervening years, but it's not like the US invented the…

Probably worth noting here that the "Episode IV - A New Hope" title wasn't even added until the 1981 theatrical re-release. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

"It was a tradition that lasted well past it was needed." Well, schools have summer break so that kids can go help out on the farm, and I don't see that one going away anytime soon…

Wilson was the first Democrat who no longer bore the stigma of the Civil War. In that sense, it would probably be more accurate to say that presidents from 1860-1912 were less racist than the "status quo" (i.e., they drew their support from the less-racist north).

Psst: check out Thomas Nast for a fascinating case study. He was a political cartoonist whose most famous works are on opposite sides. "And Not This Man" is an argument for black suffrage. 9 years later, "Colored Rule in a Reconstructed(?) State" is precisely the opposite.

The opening to this is one of the most repugnant things I've ever read. "The “joke” about Civil War is that it’s implausible to think that
the federal government would act to regulate deadly weapons in the wake
of the deaths of school children. The allusion to events like the Sandy
Hook shooting are obvious, and it…

Can I ask a question about the whole "sleeping with anyone was Russian Roulette" thing? I was a kid in San Francisco at the time, so I obviously saw what was going on, and I've heard the debates about what should have been done. But I don't have any peers who were gay adult (or even teen) men. So what I want to…

In the original, the idea was that the stormtroopers hit a dead-end, so they HAD to turn around. It's not very clear, though, so I agree that the change has some benefit in terms of clarifying the joke.

At least one EU source claimed that the "Kessel Run" involved ferrying cargo between two transports on a divergent trajectory. Hence, faster ships would travel a shorter distance. That being said, I always thought the best explanation was the original one: it showed that Han was kind of talking out his ass.

No Alan Moore? A tragedy of the highest order! Any list is inherently subjective, but how can one include a Johnny-come-lately (who has no idea how to end a storyline) like Brian K. Vaughn and omit a giant of the genre like Moore? Yes, his specialty is deconstructing the genre, but I would still happily recommend…

I feel the article gave short shrift to the notion that Henry-Pym-as-wife-beater was unintended. Specifically, it would have been appropriate to note the "Marvel method" of scripting, up through the 90s, was to have the writer give a plot synopsis, often with a vague, 1-sentence summary for each page ("Spider-Man…

I'm pretty sure that a snide comment about New York was part of the opening patter all the way up until September 11th (when they changed to a consistent "greatest city in the world").