Well, you could make a case for Saudi Arabia, but that opens a whole new political can of worms.

So, just confirming that this really isn’t a next-generation Defender, it’s just a Discovery with different sheet metal (and plastic).

Yeah, but this is the econo-box version, the 1.3 litre. You need the 1.5 litre to get the fun out of the car. Too many unknowns in a not very fast car.

Lemme guess. It was based on a Hot Wheels car?

I think it’s all a question of what will happen first: will Uber get sued out of existence, or will they run out of money to pay their lawyers?

That’s what they’re doing in British Columbia.

They really swung for the fences when they teamed up with Harlan Ellison.

“Nuke ‘em from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”

When I was a little kid in the early sixties in England, we had a Simca and a Saab. I’m really going to have to dig to find the model numbers, but my hazy memory says the Simca was very similar to that 1500, and it was brown.

EVA foam is actually the go-to material for constructing cosplay armor. It’s ridiculously cheap, light, easy to cut and form (a heat gun or hair dryer will work) and you can texture it to look like metal, plastic, or just about anything you want.

And in an interesting tie-back to Dune:

Proud? Or relieved?

Elevator pitch: “Orange is the New Black - Celebrity All-Star Edition”.

He didn’t say ‘real’ anywhere, did he? In that case, I’m taking a Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle.

Yeah, I was sold on these for life after Top Gear couldn’t kill one. It’s my end-of-life/end-of-days vehicle.

It’s so weird to read that about CDs. Vinyl I could understand, the analog sound, the fantastic packaging and album art, but CDs? I don’t get it. 

What, no Eliza Dushku. I am disappointed!

Would you accept Rob’s brother Doug, currently Premier of Ontario, as a substitute?

Whew! I mean, I’m Canadian, but only because my family emigrated from the UK when I was five, and we took out joint citizenship when I was twelve. So I’m not related to any of these people.

Anthony Michael Hall did a better Bill Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley.