Crazily, Agatha Christie used this term in one of her Miss Marple mysteries.

Or inventor Garrett Morgan, with a focus on his early version of the gas mask allowing him to save lives in the Cleveland Tunnel Explosion, only to not be recognized because of his race?

Glorious sunset of my heart was fading
Soon, the super karate monkey death car was park in my space
But Jimmy has fancy plans!!
And pants to match
-Jimmy James, 1997

Saturday night I went to get my dogs out of the fenced yard, only to find one had escaped, which was apparently due to the enticing nature of the possum in my driveway. Got the dogs in the house and went to see if the possum was dead or just playing - he was up and dragging himself away, but stopped to look at me…

Dikachu's is a slightly jokey example, but in scientific writing at least, there are many instances in which you are listing a number of "compound' items with multiple "ands" in the sentence, so an Oxford comma is critical to fully delineate those items..

There are definitely times when it is necessary for clarity, so for the sake of consistency I always use it. I have students that can't write a coherent paragraph to save their life but will yell "OXFORD COMMA" as if *that* is the most critical part of a comprehensible sentence. They'll have two freaking lines of…

I read it like he was being artificially pompous about his character being the most important and everything revolving around him.

I once saw an interview with Peter Capaldi where it was the same thing - what would Malcolm Tucker say about xyz and his response was along the same lines that he was an actor and did not write the characters lines. Luckily it was just a few minutes and not hours on end.

Yeah, that makes you overqualified.

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I gotta agree - I won't defend it as good (it's not) but the hate it received here is surprising. I was surprised by the relentless negativity review and definitely shocked to see it #4 here. I would think that having two good lead performances would put it ahead of a number of films not on this list.

I really liked Broken Harbor but I can imagine that might be a tough one of hers to start with. All of them are pretty intense psychologically but that one is really tough.

I love The Terror to pieces, but I am wary of other Simmons based on reviews. Has anyone read Drood or Abominable? Both seem right up my alley but as I say, a lot of negative comments about them (mainly that they are slogs) has turned me away.

Are you familiar with the story of 'Moneyball'? A man uses logic and statistics to win several ballgames. It's my favorite movie.

Alan Cumming (who is Scottish) as Eli Gold in The Good Wife pulled it off. In general I think Brits do Americans better than Americans do Brits. The worst was Kenneth Branagh in Dead Again.

Yes, I rewatched Parks and Rec recently and it was exactly like that! In fact, I almost never think about it and only watching that episode did I have a flashback to it. I also look back and wonder why my reaction to "I want to see other people" was "ok! see you at Thanksgiving!"

The year after graduating from college (we're talking 25 years ago), I went to Thanksgiving at my boyfriend's house. Except he had broken up with me and I didn't realize it, since all he said was he wanted to see other people. But he had told all of his family that we had broken up. So here I was acting like…

I had to look that up but it sounds great.

That is a huge first step - think of all the asses out there who don't even know that are one! :)

I like these more than some classes I have taken, which often are guiding you through nature and all I can think of is "man, I wish I was out hiking!" This app asks your emotions then picks out a few short meditations based on that (or you can just scroll through them). Like, if you are feeling angry at someone, the…