OH MY GOD, I can almost guarantee my mom picked it up from a reading of The Stand because she’s a super King nerd and she’s way too young to have heard it in any of these films.

“Seepage from behind the dam” well said. And all too true about hiding America’s ugly past so we can more easily avoid the ugly present.

My own mother used it recently (first I had heard it!) and she was born in the 60s - so, no doubt it's still around.

Then my job here is done!

Ugh, I hope he doesn't get tied to a terrible shitcom that I'll be forced to watch because I won't be able to help myself! I want him on my HBO doing something with a budget that let's him being the smoldering dude in a suit. Maybe the next foray into True Detective? They got their sophomore slump, the next one could…

He is criminally underused! I think it’s because he walks a weird line between being a big, gentle guy but also physically imposing. There aren’t a lot roles that he can really sink himself into or that a director can get full use of him. Like, he CAN be scary/violent, but like he only maintains it in short bursts. He…

Thanks! I just mainlined Rome for the third (fourth?) time so it was appropriate. Dig him and his way with the ladies, hence the screen name.

I appreciate you saying you will attempt to condition yourself to use woman instead of female. And that it will be hard, because that’s honest, but just do it, because MANY women find it offensive and dehumanizing.