Do you offer one kudo for pictures of a shillelagh?

I may do.

Speaking as someone who has not read this book, but has read a lot of hard science fiction, and also paid hard cash to see Prometheus...all I can say is this film had best have a good explanation of how and why an astronaut, who has presumably lived and worked with his colleagues for years, traveled X kilometers, at a…

Are you suggesting books, even popular books, are never dumb?

Okay, say that three times, fast. :D

Dear, dear. Well, thank you for clarifying. For the confused, then:

Well, that seems fairly reasonable. Hope it translates well — sometimes things that seem to make sense in a book are less plausible when they’re seen on screen.

Clearly I didn’t say that I had.

Accidentally leaving an astronaut on Mars is already a dubious concept, as stillwellgray may be hinting (you don’t count heads? or weight? Are these the scientists rejected by the Prometheus mission?)

I was in my favourite Japanese restaurant (owned and staffed by a Korean/Chinese family) when one of the servers approached me with his English textbook, and a long list of words he didn’t understand how to pronounce. There didn’t seem to be any rules.

We knew my aunt was going loop-de-loop when she claimed to see kangaroos in her condo’s parking look.

Oh, I love that one! Authentic on a pretty low budget, and Susan Hampshire and Margaret Tyzack are about as good as anybody could be.

There’s the Marauder’s Map from Harry Potter, the function of which seems to be to make its users more confused and lost. At times when it might actuallly be useful, everyone forgets about it.

Though it is not the worst thing ever seen, I feel a deep and personal hatred for it. Starting with: though most of the population is poor and deprived, everyone can afford stylin’ hair, makeup, wardrobe, and cosmetic surgery.

The only thing I can think of is: can people really be manipulated via dreams? The odd time when I can remember a dream, I think “huh, that was weird”, and decide not to eat at least an hour before bedtime. Maybe someone is manipulating me into losing weight?

Me, too. And I went with my eyes open. As soon as I heard it was about the search for beings who had seeded Earth with life, Chariots of the Gods-style, I knew.

Aw, too bad. You’ll just have to be satisfied with the cutest puppies and kitties in town.

These look ready for the knee-chains they used to be worn with.

In the future, people will look askance of the purse dog craze of 2000s, but it happened before. I blame the Stuarts.

Of course not. But neither are created by magic, or by thudding prose.