I don't know much about Wizards of the Coast's business practices or the era of the Open Gaming License, but the proverbial serpent entered the garden long ago. I had no idea of this when I was playing 1E and 2E as a kid, but TSR had as much backstabbing and skullduggery as any Thieves' Guild.

"All right. It's Saturday night, I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix-tape… Let's rock."

I loved playing first edition, but there were so many weird quirks and flaws in those rules.

Also the baffling artistic decision to match gorgeous photo-realistic landscape backgrounds with glossy, rubbery figures of cave people and dinosaurs which look like they were left over from Pixar's earliest days.

Or Julie Warner skinny dipping in a lake.

Specifically, the powers of capital punishment (axe) and corporal punishment (rods).

I've heard of people who got so fed up with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and/or GRRM's delays that they will no longer start reading any fantasy or sci-fi series unless it's already finished.

"Let us cavort like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean…"

Shut the front door!

I don't think I had ever heard that one until Austin Powers reacted to the Fembots' "Machine gun jubblies!" in the first of those movies. I think it's mostly British, as is "dirty pillows" (how ridiculous is that one?).

I can't help but feel you have buried the lede a bit here. The porn meme text is annoying and presumptuous, the "I'm a comedian, you just don't appreciate my genius" stuff feels like character dialogue from the mind of an actual comedian/comedy writer (who then rejected it as too hacky), but the real story is that…

"Taint" seems a bit too backwoods or hillbilly for my taste, just like "pecker" or "jugs".

I was one of the Gen-Xers who loved Babylon 5 and DS9 in the 90's, only to get burned by The X-Files. To this day I still can't quite believe that Chris Carter's big alien story just peters out, and will never really be finished.

Ironically, that very same problem doomed the original 1979 series. It was a pretty big hit, but was also so expensive for ABC to produce that it became a white elephant. They reused special effects shots from the two-hour premiere movie until it became glaringly obvious. They recycled sets and costumes from other…

Public shaving?

What's even more weird is the fact that pubic lice are close relatives of another louse species adapted to living on gorillas, diverging about 3.3 million years ago.

Disqus does indeed "suq" but go to any of the former Gawker sites and just try to follow a conversation. You'll wear out your mouse button clicking "show more comments in this thread".

I tried reading the first three books when I was a teenager in the late 80's, but they just didn't quite click for me, despite my interest in weird British humor like Monty Python. I finally got around to reading them in 2005, by which time there were five of them.

I didn't get where I am today by randomly stumbling upon great British TV shows on my local PBS station!

Vodka: the booze for people who don't actually like booze.