Sorry, bit of a tangent here, but... I was wondering upthread if that character wasn’t actually based on Harry Potter (or, not fully), but rather on Timothy Hunter, a DC character who debuted in the mini-series “The Books of Magic” about 7 years before Harry Potter came out. Tim Hunter is a 12 year old boy who…

Wait... was it ACTUALLY HARRY POTTER? I never read the final one, but from what I saw around, I always assumed it was Timothy Hunter, from the Books of Magic? Since Timothy Hunter was wizard-like, already a DC property, and looked EXACTLY like Harry Potter... despite that mini-series first appearing in 1990, seven…

To this day, that makes me angry.

(I still honestly like this movie.  Great cast.)

Yeah, goddamn, but Hammer to Fall is a great song to blast in the car.

True story: my father had been a lector in our home parish for a number of years (i.e. one of the congregation who gets up to do some of the readings, and helps to distriubute communion). When he died, his wish was to be cremated, and then given a Naval burial at sea, which he was entitled to as a veteran of the…

Geez. Deep cut. Have a star because, darnit, I really liked those movies.

Do you imagine that children aren’t absorbing messages about heterosexual “romance” (as distinct from desire for sexual activity) from the moment they are able to absorb stories? I mean, what are all the Disney movies that are shown to children — and especially the princess movies that are shown to girls — but…

*sigh* The biggest problem with this article is that I DON’T have any scrapple in the freezer (always buy a brick of Habersett when I’m home visiting), and I don’t know where I can reliably get it in the Boston area.

How can anyone malign pork roll?

(Taylor ham is apparently slightly different from pork roll! I’ve never had Taylor ham. Taylor pork roll is where it’s at, though. Speaking as a Philly girl.)

False. It’s a tie.

I agree with everything here except the “ketchup, you’re doing it wrong” part. Family from the Philly area, and some of my relatives’ preference for ketchup on Scrapple goes back to the 40s. That’s just the way it was.

God. Same.

While I agree with you on that, I had also read that the problem is that they have to market these “time saving” (or clumsy-saving) items to the non-disabled, because they need to sell to a larger audience in order to make them cost-effective for the disabled consumers who really need them. (So, using disabled people…

Will Arnett not joining in the mansplaining isn’t really good enough. Silence from other men is complicity. Other men, who clearly won’t listen to a woman, need to hear fellow men tell them “that’s fucked up”. He should have stuck up for her.

Yes, I particularly liked the line about Carter having been building houses for the needy for the past 30 years. Except, he left office 38 years ago.

(Just to be clear: surviving guy was the one being gnawed-on. Dead guy is the one who ran, instead of trying to whallop the cat. He won’t be second-guessing his actions.)

(I mean, I agree with you otherwise, but half of that 8 feet is tail. Still, their size and weight isn’t a good indicator of how strong they are, as well as being built to kill. You may outweigh it, but you don’t want to tussle with it.)

(Seriously. I’m sitting here right now with bandages on my right palm because I just picked up my cat this morning, knocked something over at the same time, which freaked her out, and she double-fish-hooked me in the palm while escaping. And this cat weighs 6 pounds.)