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Sony spokesman Zero Mostel categorically denies your accusations.

Sony should make a defiant statement in support of free speech akin to that made by Jyllands Posten after the murder of Theo van Gogh.

The Romans invented letter case to disambiguate that sentence specifically. They liked to plan ahead.

Fact that could save your life in a trivia contest run by a supervillain: you can sometimes find naturally flavored icicles on cliffsides. Maybe water evaporation concentrates the impurities. I didn't try any of the allegedly lemon-flavored ones, but the strawberry-flavored one really was. The plants above it looked…

See also "Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door"

Either Jackson really believed that The Hobbit could support three movies, or there were issues of reusing special effects, actors, and movie rights. If Jackson just itched to make more Tolkien movies, The Silmarillion could have supported a half dozen better than The Hobbit could support three.

"Every Day is Like Sunday" at volume level 2 and 75% of normal tempo.

TV WILL BE PAUSED AFTER THE RAPTURE

It's not a fly. It's a bolt hole. The white around it is unfinished ceramic that was exposed either while the bolt was drilled or when whatever was attached to the bolt got ripped out later.

Big rapiers. The rapiest.

Firearms have had devastating consequences for research and development of manually wielded weaponry. Who will shell out the big money to produce big-ass swords of hitherto unseen quality, weapons that really showcase 21st century materials science and metallurgy, when a 19th century revolver is deadlier? It's so sad.

"Pluperfectly meaningless" is pretty darn meaningless, so it kind of gets the point across?

Killing people to absolve your guilt can lead to a vicious cycle if you're not careful.

Outside the theater there'll be a uniformed recruiter for prison guards. If you don't try to sign up, he'll send you to prison on trumped-up charges, to kick-start the whole process.

Tough talk. My avatar knows kung fu.

I love you too, God.

I'd like to see how Grendel fit in politically with the clans of vampires and werewolves that secretly held power back then.

Around the Bend Jon Hamm stars as the half-blind wheelchair bound Mark Trail. After a fatal hit-and-run car crash kills his neighbor's granddaughter outside Trail's retirement home apartment, he puts his still-acute hearing, honed through years of birding back when he still could, to good use trying to catch the…

Have you considered renaming yourself "confirmation bias incarnate"?