Mine was probably Ender's Game. I really enjoyed the early Potter novels, but the last two just left me cold (and it wasn't that they were badly written as such, just that they seemed to be huge for the sake of being huge - stuff happens, but not enough to warrant the size). That said I didn't think they were world…

"All squadrons ahead, half speed, with energy probes on!" From Last Starfighter is a doozy. As a friend of mine loves to point out, it's a sci-fi movie, you're supposed to use words like "Activated," "powered up" or "Raised" - "on" just makes it seem like he wants to boil some water for his tea - really…

It's old enough to make the argument invalid - it or originated as a Jack, which meant "Flag up a pole" as much as "Flag on a Ship" at the time, so either is perfectly valid, and popular consensus has a preference for Union Jack. So yeah, you could correct people and say flag every time they say jack, or you could…

Funny, I thought he was an Italian plumber. Y'know from Italy? Which is closer to the UK?

Agreed.

Goodyear is apparently planning to phase them out over the next few years though - replacing them with Zeppelins (I'll bet everyone still calls them blimps though). Also, you can use the word dirigible in place of airship if you want to sound fancy (if there's a difference in the meaning I'm unaware of it).

Full cooked breakfasts, British bacon in general, British prepackaged sandwiches (really, try one on both sides of the pond, US ones are TERRIBLE), British chocolate, gravy, pie, fish and chips and bread, and cheese... All these (IMO) are better in the UK than the US brethren (Though I can't comment on how they fair…

I think Robin Curtis' biggest issue was she was too good at playing a Vulcan. Vulcans played straight are kinda dull and not terribly interesting as characters, while the most interesting ones are those who let their emotions just peep through a tiny bit. Ms. Curtis played the emotionless aspect of being a Vulcan…

There's a patch for that I believe.

For various reasons I read Foundation in the wrong order the first time around, and ended up reading Foundation and Empire some time after Second Foundation. The best thing about it? The twist still works - In fact everything still works, even though I already knew the outcome, the journey was still utterly…

I was going to divorce io9 if I didn't find Alpha on the list, but there he is, so I'll hang around (Just for the kids sake you understand?). You missed that he's both fought (in Top Dogs) and teamed up (in Judgement Day) with Judge Dredd, and that he was dead for 20 years (real time) before the his (classic comic…

Hopefully, in a home where the parents give a damn, the kid in question would not be afraid to ask. In fact it's a very educational episode as long as the child does ask, and the parents have any knowledge of the time at all; you can learn about Nixon, Kennedy, The Moon Landings, the concepts of memory and of self,…

He also attempted genocide on the Daleks in "Remembrance of the Daleks" (I think), not to mention again, along with the Time Lords during the Time War.

Practically any British TV show's music from the 70's and 80's is just amazing. My playlist has far to many of them on it.

@Gargus: I'm sure the only amazing thing about the Mona Lisa was Da Vinci waking up one morning and saying "Enigmatic smile! Yeah, that'll slay 'em!", or Van Gogh eating his lunch thinking "Man, Sunflowers, that's where it's at... Or maybe I'll just lop off mah lobe."

Hyperdrive.

Where's the Avengers? The six Million dollar man? The rest of Jerry Anderson's shows (All of them had amazing intro sequences)? Ghost in the Shell: Second Gig (GITS wasn't so good, second gig's were awesome)?

@k4man: Doctor who is right there man... unless it was added sneakily after your comment...

@James Taylor: That should read "major incident" in the second paragraph - it had several minor ones prior to the crash, sorry.

@FordGTGuy: "a successful aircraft with no crashes or fires except for a in air collisions with another plane at fault, the same cannot be said about the Concorde."