More than that: in the comics, The Ancient One was very specifically Tibetan, and a very stereotypical Tibetan “guru” character. But what keeps getting overlooked in this case is that changing the character and the entire Tibetan locale was a fait accompli. Not because of white washing, but because of commerce. …

I am a die-hard, make it from scratch, and make it as authentic as possible kind of cook, but I just added a recipe from the back of a jar of Crosse & Blackwell to my repertoire, and it is already a staple at Casa Fancylads: Major Grey’s cheese spread.

Sorry, but I stopped reading after I got to this picture. I think that I just died and went to TAS heaven. The funny thing about that episode is that it has some of the worst animation in the whole series — except for the other episodes that were done by AKOM, of course, which are equally terrible. I firmly believe…

As a Vikings fan, I could tell you a story or two about just that.

I was a training manager for a video store chain back in the Nineties. One of my trainees was a five-and-a-half foot tall, 250 lb. Egyptian immigrant named Max who had previously owned his own store. He struggled a bit with the concept of responsibility to a corporation. While I was doing a group training session…

FTFY.

One of the greatest things that Ian Fleming ever wrote was a rock-paper-scissors match between James Bond and his Japanese counterpart “Tiger” Tanaka in You Only Live Twice. It was every bit as memorable as the baccarat match in Casino Royale, or the golf game in Goldfinger.

Truer words were never paraphrased.

One of the advantages to the fact that I have no faith whatsoever in humanity is that I rarely have to be disappointed by anything that the collective species does.

Well, no, I had to drive myself away, because like I said, I live on the other side of the state. I was only there for the concert that weekend. It is about 350 miles one way. We did tell them to call us when the parts came in, but they never did.

Oh, I believe you; I am just saying that the forum post must have been mistaken. But either way, it was nothing that should have prevented me from at least taking the thing around the block. I suppose that they are still smarting from the whole ignition switch deal.

Personal foul: using the adjective “formidable” twice in a row to describe the same noun. Fifteen yard penalty, and automatic ejection from the game.

That would certainly make more sense, but the forum post that I found said that it was a rear seatbelt. But that explanation makes it no less silly. I was definitely not wearing a gun belt at the time.

GODDAMN SEATBELT TENSIONERS!!!

Harlan Ellison wrote a hilarious essay about that. Though if memory serves, he came down on the side of Hydrox over Oreos. Either way, he described the filling as tasting like elephant cum, which prompted an indignant reader to write him and ask how he knew.

Probably marginally more comfortable than they would feel if there was a single female player at the table. . .

When a mascot pulls out the crane technique, you know he means business.

I once had a young couple complain about a children’s tape at a video store that I managed back in the Nineties. They said that it contained racist images, and that they did not want children to see it. It was a relatively cheap collection of public domain cartoons, and while I did not watch it myself, I have…

No, I live in a state that is becoming a Texas wannabe: Wisconsin.