lasties are so much harder than firsties.

That was SO stupid that it made me laugh out loud as I am standing here manning the front desk of a very busy, yet very quiet, library. It was embarrassing.

The New Yorker had a great article a few years ago about light pollution…I think people living in cities just don't realize how few stars they're seeing — especially in New York, which, naturally, is at the furthest extreme of the scale used to measure sky darkness. The article's worth a read, but here are a couple of…

liked for "too many dicks on the dancefloor" :)

I think MRA types honestly envision a horrifying dystopian future where it's going to be legally required that every movie include that scene — "some weather we're having, huh, Sally?" "Sure is, Julie…" And Sally and Julie won't even be characters in the rest of the movie or anything, they'll just be walking by.

Yeah, the stories given to them did kind of suck. And yet the simple fact that they were *there* seems to have made an impression on girls/women watching — okay, at least to this girl who was watching, and apparently Lurky too :)

Oh, so much me too. I guess I loved Beverly a little more than Troi, but basically I had exactly the same feelings about TNG.

Yeah, there *is* some sort of thematic connection there, isn't there? I do think Lost did some cool thematic stuff— people may have hated that "it was really all about the characters, not the mystery" thing, but…it kind of was :)

I think I kinda know what you mean…like, not that the Island was "alive" exactly, but that it was some sort of consciousness — I remember thinking maybe it sort of made manifest the stuff you brought with you (like, mentally, I mean, not like luggage) as a way of communicating.

"Considah dis a diploma."

Great, now I will have this stuck in my head all day.

Sorry, I never saw that you'd replied— I only figured out where you see Disqus notifications today!

So interesting! I was all set to argue with you that I was SURE the "proof used to mean test" explanation was correct — then I took the time to actually READ your post first and see that you have the OED on your side! (It's so hard to bother listening to other people, ugh.)

Yeah, that whole scene was awesome. That sharply enunciated "De-von!" just killed me.

thank you, same here, too lazy to write it out like you did :)

Thank you for the phrase "straight Porky Piggin it"…I've never been able to articulate why I hate shirts and no underwear so much, but that's why.

It was so weird to read this comment, then look to see who said it, then see that…IT'S ME

Megamind was sorely (no, no wait! CRIMINALLY! Why didn't I say criminally?!) underrated and under-seen, and I blame that moronic Despicable Me. Stupid kids with their stupid bad taste!

But…"bred to be dependent on humans, strictly for our own
amusement" applies to chickens, cows, pigs, etc. too — except of course it's for consumption rather than amusement. That distinction somehow makes one class of animals "okay to abuse" and the other class "not okay to abuse"?

A downvote?! But…but…you were just saying something *good* and nice and I'll never be able to read "Ellen Degeneres with a Neckbea" any other way now and that's a good thing! Why would that get a downvote??