"… and I'll give you a big surprise."

That was the idea, although I couldn't help but think my father was thinking "And THIS is what I get for a son."

First, I'm not a mutant so he's just as like to levitate a bucket of metal over me and dump it. Second, he'd be useless at the paper mill.

Like the guy in Law and Order: Criminal Intent who Goren said was going to "… move to Mexico and live on a mountain of smack."

He is us and we all learn a valuable lesson.

Or he just forgot about being followed by the disability police.

I always thought Roald Dahl was very dark. Then I found I had confused him with Romain Gary. Now it appears it was both of them.

The person or the movie?

Was the whole person there, or just the arm chained to the case?

Ayn Rand did not approve of unions.

Also, it denotes full ownership so, Grandpa, what this "we" crap?

Because it's work Americans won't do!

As a kid I toured a steel mill and a paper mill. The chance of death is still high - but no candy

Shouldn't there be all kinds of commenters defending Wonka? After all he's a businessman who creates jobs. How many Oompa Loompas did Grandpa Joe employ?

The first Jaws was exciting and somewhat original (it was a rip off of Moby Dick). After all, all the sequels and other shark movies - yes, those are cheats

No, I said the sequels were cheats. The original Jaws was very exciting - and now the word "shark" is a cheat. Also the novel simply copied Moby Dick, so that wasn't too original anyway.

Apparently, yes. http://www.msn.com/en-us/mu…

Oh, I thought we were beyond Thunderdome

Also big guy at the whorehouse in "Quest of the Delta Knights"

They truncated my favorite - The Amazing Race