Respectfully disagree. A sudden, painless death is the last thing we want for Mr. Cosby.

I have to say, I wish the press were making more about the dozens of people in Cosby's employ who obviously knew he was doing this but were A-OK with it as long as he kept signing their checks. (and yes, I get that they, like the victims themselves, feared what Cosby would do to them if they DIDN'T play along, but…

In order to have children, they'd have to have sex, at least one time.

IPSO FATSO.

It's spelled "ignant".

Maybe their right-wingers deliberately pick innocuous-sounding names for themselves, in hopes that they can sneak past people, just like they do in the US.

Eh, easy enough. The Boltons need Sansa too much for Ramsay to let some serving wench cause any trouble. Either she doesn't do anything more than the occasional stink-eye or hiss, or she tries something & Ramsay kills her.

I have to believe it's the former. The show took such pains to have Sansa come out as a badass at the end of season 4, & letting her choose to go on to Winterfell rather than being dragged, to me, suggests she'll get the upper hand. And Ramsay has been drawn as such a despicable character, it'll be fun to see him get…

The Lais better get to work—they have a LOT more people to sue!

Exactly.

Yup, & also a Germanism—likewise common in Minnesota.

I teach Latin, so grammar & etymology (etc.) is my bread & butter. I actually use "fixin' to" when I teach future active participles. I went to college in Virginia & grad school in Georgia, so I've absorbed stuff like this along the way, & my Minnesota students seem to get a kick out of my put-on (& admittedly…

"This thing needs done" instead of "this thing needs to be done" (or "this thing needs doing") is a Germanic turn of phrase, so it tends to show up in places that have significant German influence. Southeastern PA, where I grew up, for example. But I've also heard it out here in Minnesota, where we live now (which…

"To fix" can mean "stick to", like the word "affix". So when you fix to do something, you're sticking with the plan (i.e., you're planning to/committed to doing whatever).

Yale? Oh, you mean Dumb Harvard?

Or they're more stylistic trends or guidelines rather than rules, per se. And of course context is everything—we don't need to be formal all the time.

Not as much of a drag as it is in the books, though, thankfully. Yeesh.

Not at all. Don't you remember how we were greeted as liberators?

No no—I just meant from a TV-show standpoint. In real life they're not related, but on screen they LOOK like they are.

Again, I remind you: The whores' sighs over Pod were NOT about his rod. We never found out exactly what he did with/to them, but the one question Tyrion asked & they answered directly was basically, "So, what, is he just HUGE?" & they said "Nope."