See, now that's fun EVERYONE can enjoy!

I guess so, though of course with the real possibility of being seriously hurt or killed.

It varies from state to state, but generally a bachelors is sufficient. Still, you do need to do the continuing education thing. A masters program in teaching (M.A.T.) is just the most efficient way to get there, for most teachers. And yeah, private schools have more flexibility, but generally they want you to have…

I was born in 1970, so I probably should remember this kid, but I don't really. I seem to have a vague memory of the Underwood commercial, & he does look (& sound) a bit familiar, but that's about it. I'm cool with that, though. I have plenty of other unpleasant memories from the '70s to enjoy!

Is it?

It is genuinely baffling. It's like the whole country lost its mind, as well as any sense of aesthetics, for a whole decade.

Especially because it was, and remains, a terrible fucking haircut.

As a bonus, I grew in southeastern PA, just a little too close to Three Mile Island.

And you can't be sure if he's some naturalist with some earthworms or some such, or just a guy with somehow visible parasites.

We gave up after season 3, & barely bade it through THAT. Heroes just might win the TV prize for the worst execution of the best idea, ever.

Yeah—I've been a regular since January 2008, with by now probably 8,000 registered comments (though my comment count reset to zero with the arrival of NüDisqus—piss me off). I chose my nom de AV Club because my first post, after lurking for a couple weeks, was to ask what "firsties" were all about, so "Clueless…

Yeah, I made the same assumption, & certainly GRRM means for us to assume the tall grave-digger monk is Sandor Clegane. I went over to the Ice & Fire wiki, just to make sure I was remembering all the facts about where the story left the Hound, & I thought this was a good observation: "Many readers of the series…

No, but that's a great idea! Thanks, @avclub-f16faf5d680d7b88e2e157c1c137c497:disqus!

I suppose. But even so, being realistic about the possibility of being killed isn't the same as "slated to die". That whole "Hail Caesar! Those who are about to die salute you!" isn't well attested, & may even be apocryphal.

Fun Fact: According to Pliny the Younger, it wasn't obvious that the mountain that was erupting was Vesuvius—that was determined after the fact. Also, Vesuvius isn't as close to Pompeii as people think—it's like 7-8 miles away.

Or, people who don't plan to see the movie & so don't care about spoilers. Sorry, but as a Latin teacher I just know too much about this era & about the eruption of Vesuvius to be able to sit through shlock like this.

Still, better than those fucks from Nola, amirite?

Actually, it's estimated that more than half of them made it out alive, maybe as high as 75%. Proportionately more people died in Herculaneum, which was closer to the volcano & took a direct hit from the pyroclastic flow & lava, whereas Pompeii got mostly ash & pumice (a LOT of it, but that's still easier to get away…

"Fortes," inquit, "fortuna iuvat."

"mere hours after he was slated to die there in combat"
I don't understand this comment. Gladiators weren't "slated to die" in the arena—they were there to FIGHT. Most of them lived to fight again—even the losers. In movies, yeah, pretty much every fight ends in someone dying, but that wasn't how it really was. …