Then why do you keep replying?

I can't believe this didn't beat out Star Wars in theaters that summer.

[February 7, 2012] Signals from a Russian station in Antarctica suddenly cut off early this morning. "All communications ceased abruptly," said the expedition spokesman in St. Petersburg. "We believe the team there are simply swapping out batteries," he said, as he edged toward the door.

I'll see your "force choke" and raise you a Vulcan Death Grip.

Agreed.

Check your dictionary Darth: nothing in that commercial was either, by definition, satire or homage. At best it was an endorsement, at worst naked pandering. Either way — unlike last year's kid commercial — it was pretty lame.

I'm sorry — what were you saying? I was watching a cat video

Funny, but Narnia is the only thing of C.S. Lewis I *haven't* read. Most people, it seems, don't know he wrote anything beyond that.

Oh good — I'm not crazy. I never dropped a "classic" faster than this dullard.

Well what if it isn't a cosmic collective — that there is only one single soul going thru each life, and starting over again. It would explain deja-vu, past lives, etc. Explains all those crazy people who think they were Marie Antoinette: we were ALL Marie Antoinette.

I've long wondered if there is only one soul, living through each life in its entirety, and that the collective total is what could be considered God.

Fame waxes and wanes. Relatively stable media at least gives creators the potential of being rediscovered at a later date.

In a way, we already know. A couple commenters brought up King Arthur, but let's not forget Robin Hood, the first true fictional character in pop culture. In both cases, these characters and their stories have been told, retold, mixed, mashed up, remixed, reimagined and rebooted every few generations for almost 1,000…

I wish Wizards well and will follow along in interest, but there is no reason for me ever to buy another version. In addition to my own D&D stuff, I was bequeathed my brother's Little Brown Books and the collections of 2 other friends, with more potential left in them then I'll use in this lifetime.

Is that a +5 Turkey Sandwich or a Turkey Sandwich feat?

You had me at Fred Willard

(Shhhhhhh — you'll spook the markets.)

Can't believe you didn't include Stephen Baxter's "The Time Ships," the official sequel to H.G. Wells "The Time Machine." Not only did Baxter have the BIG BRASS BALLS to write a sequel to The Time Machine (a sequel that doesn't suck, I might add), but the middle part of the novel takes place during a never-ending…

First! .... wait, hold on. Damn TARDIS dropped me into next week instead of last

I believe you're thinking of "The Timesweepers" by Keith Laumer. It's quite a rip-roaring yarn, as they would have said back in the Old Era.