Oh, it’s a rationalization all right, but an important and entirely rational (yes, I see what I did there) one to make.

Hear-hear!

You just made me even more grateful that I live in the deep South and had never even seen a basement until I was 10 years old (and visiting family in West Virginia). I’m totally cool with concrete slab construction, thanks.

As the proud driver of an MGB, this is the experience I can relate to.

The 1814 frost fair on the Thames was 23 years prior to the start of Queen Victoria’s reign, during the Georgian period. More precisely, it was during the Regency era. Not everything from the 19th century is properly described as “Victorian.”

Yep. It’s alive and well, thriving it the market niches it carved out back in the days when LotusNotes was its chief rival and OS/2 was an operating system option.

The sample set of your customers must not be that representative of the profession. Wordperfect still retains a significant share of the legal market.

Exactly. The obscure, industry-specific case management software I have to use includes integration add-ins for Word and Outlook.

Because for a large portion of my work, I am obliged to use some obscure, industry-specific software that has Word and Outlook integration built in, to do things like generate form documents with fields populated by data from the other software.

As both a lawyer and son of a lawyer, I thought this too. I was raised using Wordperfect, and it is still the primary word processor in our office. I use Word only when it is required for certain work due to integration with some industry-specific software I have to use.

That strikes me as a reasonable possibility. So instead of indicating ignorance on Luke’s part, it might actually signal that he has seen or surmised that the fundamental question of Rey (both for the audience and for herself) is her identity. He’s not asking for information; he’s cutting right to the point.

And how exactly was a taxi strike in any way helpful to the cause of obtaining fair and humane treatment of immigrants and refugees?

Dude, same here. On mine, it was the top half of the mouth (the snout, basically) that popped right off at some point. The eyes also broke at the same time, rolling downwards and towards the center, as though it were looking at its missing nose. The voice got all distorted too. Serious nightmare fuel.

While the Baofengs can be programmed to MURS frequencies (also FRS, GMRS, and really nearly anything in VHF or UHF) and can be set to transmit within the output power restrictions, they are not type certified for use on MURS or the other licensed-by-type services. So they are technically not legal for that purpose.…

So which of the Lutece “twins” is giving this lecture?

Intruders. Great writing. Great cast. High production values. Engaging story that was just beginning to answer questions in ways that raised even more interesting questions. And then inexplicably, no second season.