I care about your lobster story. "if we could remove their rubber bands first, I would be glad to personally subsidize an all-you-can-catch lobster deal for him" honestly made me laugh out loud. I'd pay to see that, too.

So do we know if he's a Starbucks person or a Dunkies person? INQUIRING MINDS.

(Also I am pretty sure I know that dog place, and yes, wouldn't that just be the kind of place he could maybe show up, as well? Very plausible.)

No, MassAudubon (erg, I should clarify: I always forget whether his home town is the one our place is in, or the town next door, because what I always remember is the h.s. he went to, which has both town names in it; but yeah, his hometown is actually the one next door). We get a lot of families and I work on…

Not gonna lie — I do volunteer work at a place in his hometown, where if the conditions were right, he could conceivably show up. DON'T THINK I DON'T THINK ABOUT IT.

Okay, THANK YOU. Because I kept watching and couldn't figure out why it didn't look like the cops went over to check the victim. But then, I didn't notice the original trucker get back to his truck, either.

PUNCH BUGGY PURPLE!

Yeah, but you notice that what the eagles are doing is killing and then landing to feed — not taking off and ascending with the heavy prey. Even with the goat kid, the shot we see in that video is the eagle flying in a controlled descent to its nest (after presumably grabbing it from the mountainside higher up).

On the "hunting buddies" theory... that looks an awful lot like a gyrfalcon, and a smooth saluki. Both are popular hunting animals, particularly in the Saharan through Caspian Sea area... and I notice the title is in Cyrillic. So, seems pretty likely to be the case.

See, when I was 9, and the first movie had just came out, the playground was plenty full of genderbent Lukes, Hans, and Chewies. (Not as many Chewies. Nobody wanted to be Chewie. Poor guy!) We really did not let the lack of female characters stop us. We even had girls playing as the droids.

Not that I disagree, (although... monster?), but — did you mean to post this in reply to me, or did you mean to put it on the top level?

LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAAAAR YOU.

People. PEOPLE. C'mon.

Oh, you and your attempt to bring actual history into it...

But that's part of the issue. You're advancing the idea that art is "better" if it's more "true", by which I assume you mean, "realistic". That isn't really a position that anyone in art history would support, though. "Trueness" or realism can be an artistic goal, but it doesn't HAVE to be, and it isn't a "better"…

One of the unabridged audio books for sale is 11 hours long.

Yeah, I've been saying this for a while now, in many discussions like these. The book is extremely breezy. The result is that it's a relatively small book, which packs a great deal more story into it than you expect. If you started actually listing all the various bits of the plot as well as the transitions,…

My argument is that the words "fake" and "fraudulent" suggest that the artist is trying to convince others that it is real, when it's not. However, the gallery write-up in my link suggests that the artist's intent is to create something fantastical, which is NOT meant to be taken as "real".

Not to mention, JetBlue, Southwest Airlines...

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