IF YE DON'T EAT YER PRAWNS,
YE CAN'T HAVE ANY COCKTAIL SAUCE!

Well, Fleming was published in the magazine a lot in the early days; you might also look for a book called The James Bond Dossier—Kingsley Amis breaking down what, exactly, Fleming does rhetorically and why it works. Great read.

Mormon bootleggers? What, they ran coffee?

This was just great. "For Our Consideration" could really stand to have more pieces like this.

He's Red Barber in _42_, and while that's mostly an impression of Red Barber, it definitely isn't Dr Cox…

Jack Cassidy. Yep.

About _It Happened One Night_:
"There’s a case to be made that this 1934 film set the template for an untold number of rom-coms that would follow its setup of circumstances pushing two unlikely people together, watching as they fall in love."
Well, yeah. What is Claudette Colbert's character if not the original, uber,…

—and we're here to rhyme…wait

At the same time?

How in the name of Almighty G_d do you make reference to _The Jazz Singer_ without even mentioning Sir Larry's crowning moment:
"I HEFF NO SON!"

Hence the Empire's clinging to that whole catwalk-without-handrails-over-an-infinitely-deep-chasm motif, even after that motif was a factor in the death of, y'know, The Emperor himself.

Mycroft, near the end, calls someone and asks to be connected to…Sherrington? Shorington?
Where is he calling? Who's there?

…as The Beaver!

I hear he's great in _Doctor Strange_.

Hans Gruber. Because of whom, I stopped wearing watches with metal wristbands.
(Well, that, and, it stopped being the eighties, and cell phones became a thing)

Oooof!

Fried chicken. A thing like that.

For years, I mistakenly referred to him as Agent DeNizo, as if The Smithereens were a crime-fighting rock band.
I still contend that would be a great show.

I'm reminded of the immortal words of Nelson Muntz, IN RE Naked Lunch: "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title!"

I was a United Methodist when I first heard it. It struck me funny, and further cemented something I was confused about. The founder of the UMC, as you know, was John Wesley. I learned that at about the same time that Time/Life Books was selling _Legends of the Old West_, in which "You'll meet characters like John…