Lumb 'er jack? I barely know her!

The first digits of [pizza] pie.

They were thisclose to calling it "Debsexcercisema-china."

Thank you; that was very interesting. And "Galvanized Yankees" is an awesome phrase, just in terms of pure language.

Caption: When they told Steve to sod off, he took it quite literally.

Fuck: 1942. That's true! I'd never realized this, somehow.

Well, the name is cool now, thanks to him; I don't think there's any intrinsic coolness in "Steve." As to the last name, it's got good consonant sounds, but the girliness could have easily been a negative back then. Thanks to Steve McQueen, though, it's like salt in a dessert: makes it better.

And it was kind of him to transmigrate about 60% of his face into Baby Damian Lewis.

How did it come about that he served on both sides (if you happen to know and if it's not indelicate to ask)?

Jesus Christ, those last two sentences hit me hard. Thank you for writing this.

The meek shall inherit the Earth—and that's when the estate taxes will hit them.

She had a luminous beauty in "Fault," and of course got a lot of sympathy points from the audience for putting up with the misanthropic writer and being super-kind to the protagonists.

And it's unusual—for budget reasons—for shows to leave standing sets unused. (I'm assuming the interior of the laird's castle will figure much less prominently in light of the road trip.)

Mmm, chorizo.

Vanity: My favorite sin!

Those jungles are a breeding ground for governors.

I ain't got time to bleed!

Well, crazy Linda Hamilton said she liked to do pull-ups in prison—Graham Greene misheard slightly.

At a very basic level—and even though we're in Scotland, where presumably the phenomenon is much more prevalent—her red hair also gives her that touch of the uncanny, like someone might toss her overboard lest she becalm the ship's sails. :)

For whatever it's worth, the actress is Dutch, so the otherness—the non-Scottishness—is built into the casting.