"But “co-Commanders-In-Chief” certainly has a nice ring to it."
Sure, what organization hasn't benefited from a split in leadership? Just look at the popes!

I think someone's just being paid by the big full-face mask lobby. *coughElSantocough*

Isn't this just the plot of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," but grittified a few factors? They just changed the name of Sombertown to Grimsvig and gave the Burgermiester Miesterburger a better motivation.

I remember this game. I don't think I got very far into it before losing interest though. In fact, nothing after the opening scenes sounds too familiar to me. But 13-year-old me thought that Aya was super hot in that black dress she wears in the beginning.

If I remember correctly, things seemed to be headed in that direction for George Sr. by the end of season 4.

The lyrics do mention "winter," which is pretty much all that you need to qualify as a Christmas song.

I hope, for the sake of the band members, that the parade didn't have a long route. It wasn't Christmas, but I remember doing a parade in high school where we only played our school fight song and "The Hey Song" over and over again for what seemed like forever. I don't remember how long the route, except that is was…

Hate Song.

Indeed. I'm certainly not ready to give up Charlie Brown's Christmas and Vince Guaraldi's score.

Ok, now I had to look it up. Hate to steal Reposted Wookiepedia's schtick, but:

Yes! I think there must be at least one version of every Christmas song ever written that somehow includes this melody, in a bridge, or a coda, or something. People have been posting about avoiding "Wonderful Christmastime," but the real challenge is avoiding "Jingle Bells."

This is perhaps the single greatest piece of writing that this site has produced.

I'm actually looking forward to this. The whole time I was watching the trailer thinking, "man when exactly is Professor X going to be bald?" And there he was at the end. Surprised to see them make Storm a bad guy—was she ever evil in the comics?

I'm reading it on my Nook, which is black and white only, so i'll have to settle for italics, alas.

I just picked up The Princess Bride, based on a "Page to Screen" article that was posted here a few weeks back. I've seen the movie many times, of course, but never got around to the book. I've only just finished chapter 1, and I already love it. Goldman's writing style is apparently right up my alley. So thanks…

Well this looks predictably terrible. But I'm pretty sure I had that bus that shoots manhole covers as a kid.

Of course language changes, but that doesn't necessarily mean that those changes are good. Changes that come about because of a systematic laziness, I think, are damaging to language and to written forms of communication. I personally don't want to see our written language replaced by emojis, because people are too…

My father-in-law does that with everything he posts on Facebook. And he's on Facebook constantly, replying to everything anyone else says, whether it warrants a comment or not. It drive me bonkers.

I will grant you that texting is informal and therefore not necessarily subject to normal rules of writing, but what worries me is that texting "rules" or whatever you want to call them will start seeping into more formal forms of writing and/or speaking, as we already see happening when say my brother (who is a…

That does sound sort of familiar now that you mention it. It's been awhile since I've read the books.