Screw the cat (I mean, don’t, it’s clearly had enough, but. . .) I want to talk about the managers of the pet motel. I’ve never managed a pet motel, but “don’t breed animals without express permissions of owners” would have been one of my first priorities. How do you get that wrong? And how have they not had…

It’s the same trick, but you do have to choreograph fairly carefully, so that the performer is braced during the turns (you can see Astaire doing that in his video as well) and doing it live is a bit risky, just because it has a greater chance of going wrong than a normal performance,. although I imagine it’s much…

But, maybe your artistic vision is stupid, and would be all the better for embracing some criticism. That’s something that everyone needs to consider.

Evil princes and Counts that enjoy torture do not get off lightly in that movie.

They won't eat raw pastry or bread. With other things, I've seen them eat fairly raw. But then, everyone eats raw busicut dough. But yeah, in this case it was pastry, which is always a no.

I thought the collective noun for a group of white males was a podcast.

I had a ceramic cast iron dutch oven. It was great, because it could cook on the stove or in the oven, and make lots of one pot meals. But it got a bit of temperature shock, and the ceramic cracked. I replaced it with a fancy non-stick pot that could go in the oven as well as on the stove, and would not succumb to…

I had a ceramic cast iron dutch oven. It was great, because it could cook on the stove or in the oven, and make lots…

Could be. I'm not a big Guinness drinker, myself, but I've been told (by Irish people) that the Nigerian recipe is both higher alcohol, and closer to an old Guinness recipe. On the other side, Nigerians who immigrate to Ireland have said that it wasn't until trying Irish Guinness they understood why the Irish can…

I've heard Nigeria is the best place for a Guinness. They apparently use an older, higher alcohol recipe.

I've heard Nigeria is the best place for a Guinness. They apparently use an older, higher alcohol recipe.

They’ve had 13 bakers before, I forget which season, but I remember it being one of the earlier BBC ones. In that case, at least, the double elimination was done fairly early, with very little drama, after two bakers both clearly did really badly.

Yes! You are the first person to publicly notice.

I mean, it would be nice if someone explained it to Johnson. He still seems really fuzzy on the whole Ireland/Northern Ireland issue.

As long as we’re nitpicking, you do not end Mass by saying “Thank you, and God Bless”. You say “Mass has ended, go in peace, to love and serve the Lord” and then maybe something about the church newsletter, or some upcoming social event.

Exactly, I was going to say, I’ve always preferred Kickboxer, and now I can feel unearned smugness for this decision.

If you are supposed to tether the tent, why doesn’t the video ever show the tent tethered? Or discuss a tether? Or point out the handy tethering features? Also, I’m no river expert, but a tethered floating tent is just going to beach itself, and stop floating. And maybe deflate, if you beach on something sharp.

Assuming you survive the night and are still floating on the river the next day, how do you steer it back to shore? If you brought a paddle with you, you can only paddle on one side.

Seriously. It’s just such an adorable and endearing show.

Well, it says at the top of the article that no one really knows why snails were so popular. I know Shakespeare used snails in a cuckolding joke (because they have horns, you see), so part if me suspects this was all a dirty joke that got out of hand.

You can line up the timelines of Next Generation, DS9 and Voyager pretty exactly, with a couple of key cross over events. Worf transfers to DS9 right after the Enterprise is destroyed in Star Trek: Generations. In Voyager, they find out about the Marquis being wiped out soon after it happens, thanks to a rare…