A small RC helicopter that makes conspicuously little noise, yes.  The kind of drones that shoot Hellfire missiles and make most video-game spec ops dudes irrelevant, no.

What @avclub-71d867a24fe5b481248b3944ff4cbc86:disqus  said.  He's not the only one.

I'm trying to make sense of that, but at least Purdue got what they deserved.

Okay…but I ain't payin' for two weddin's.

DENTAL PLAN

That's not The Band! The Band is performing later on.

Just popping in to say it again: as much as I would like to bring ad revenue to this fine web site, its godfuckingdammed horrible ads that pop in a second after you load the page, AFTER you've already fucking scrolled down past the "dismiss" button, are literally the reason I use goddammed Adblock.  AVC, if you will…

This site— specifically its horrible plugin pop-up ads that fuck up the rhythm of web surfing— is the goddammed reason I use AdBlock.  Sorry, AVC, it's true.

Liquid fuel capacity of the Space Shuttle- 8,600 hogsheads
Altitude at low earth orbit- up to approximately 400,000 rods

No, but in high school chemistry I put one under a vacuum pump.  It wasn't as dramatic as I was hoping for, it just swelled up until the cake split.

My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

On a related note…Excuse me, Tai Young Medical guard, sneaking up on your friend while invisible and punching him unconscious really wore me out, can you just wait up a minute while I eat 3 pounds of protein powder straight from the jar?

I suppose I could just buy my elephant nose at the local supermarket, but it's just not the same as eating it raw straight off the elephant's face, after killing it by stabbing it once in the ankles.

Wasn't there a stretch where plantation owners were firing their slaves and hiring the Irish because they were cheaper?  I'm pretty sure I read that.

Jibs don't have yardarms!  Quit messing with my head!

Like gefilte fish?

I was a little disappointed that ZUCCHINI MOTHERFUCKER had punctuation instead of habaneros.

The Nicolas Cage was where I lost it.

Every week, I attempt to teach science to college freshmen in Texas.  The vermin that pass for properly educated high school graduates in this backwater…graduate school can't be over soon enough.

What, no love for frozen microwaveable cheeseburgers from the dispenser in the office lounge?  A repulsive food facsimile for lazy, impatient fatasses…why, it's as American as…the parts of America that aren't Canada.