Let me guess, science will determine that there is no sweet spot, just a zone of overlap in the middle where you’re simultaneously going too frequently AND too infrequently.

Great, I’ve only been making a habit of ignoring my bladder for the past 40 years or so. Now that I’m aware it’s bad I’m sure I’ll start to see the negative repercussions any day now.

The flute is a heavy, metal instrument

Worshipped them to the point that they often buried their dead with these American beads. Clearly these beads were a token used to allow the souls of the departed to reach the afterlife.

On second thought, let’s not go to Rhode Island. ’Tis a silly place.

I will only see this if the movie explores Nixon’s desperate plea to Elvis for help in dealing with an attempted alien breakout from Area 51, because Elvis is the Earth’s secret Intergalactic Space Ambassador.

This broke my brain. Is this what typically goes on in Rhode Island?

Ohh, goody, I’m going totally not care all day on Feb. 29!

I think every industry likes to have awards, but only certain ones garner enough outside interest to merit TV coverage. The local chamber of commerce out here runs yearly awards for all sorts of business categories.

Martin’s the friend who keeps showing up to parties and events without anyone remembering how he got an invite, but no one really cares enough to make a big deal out of it. You know how every group of friends has one of those people.

I envision a couple of drug cartel lackeys sitting at a card table in a building made of corrugated metal, with a bank of fluorescent lights hanging overhead.

So when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same day, were the other ex-presidents quaking in their boots wondering if they’d be next?

Point? Nobody told me I had to have a point when commenting on the Internet! Crud, now like 80% of my comments are worthless!

That makes a lot of sense. How I put the brakes on can be more important that the fact that I’m doing it. Good food for thought.

“So we find these Merican-made bullets all over Europe, and on many Pacific islands as well. We can only assume that the Merican tribe must have been the aggressors in a globe-spanning conflict.”

... and then immediately shrank back to its original size.

Yeah, but the Toecutter is coming to crash the party!

Whaddaya mean, no one remembers Oscar bait films? Don’t we all watch The English Patient and Crash six or seven times a year each?

Yeah, most years you get a sense that the Academy voters are thinking, “God, why are there soooo many nerd movies?!?!”

I convinced the family to watch this movie at Christmas a couple weeks back. Amazingly there were a couple of people who’d never seen it. Everyone was captivated by Hans.