If I made it sound like it was some over-arching ironclad rule, my apologies.

Don't forget that the first origin telling was done in one page, decades before anyone was launched into space. Supe's parents only had the time and resources to build a single rocket for their baby. (It was later tellings that embellished the origin story… And other members of the council were also "royalty", so the…

Well… yes. Just because you found one counter-example with a working-class hero (and I am sure there are plenty, and probably earlier examples, if we looked hard enough) doesn't mean that most stories don't follow the pattern.

I think focussing on the manservant part is a mistake.

Huckabee says it is a “religious assembly”, and itemized the rally as a “presidential campaign expense”… And Repubs wonder why the IRS tries to investigate religious (but politically conservative) organizations.

I was impressed that the studio allowed the lead actress to be several years older than the male lead, instead of the other way around.

A long time ago when I took a spy novel course, the professor pointed out that, until maybe the 1960s (??), there was the conceit in (edit:) adventure literature that royalty were inherently better than the common folk. This goes beyond access to better training and resources; they were born better. They can do things…

Under close-but-not-quite is Dr Strange #55 (a really good story written by Roger Stern), where Doc meets Less Tane (Lee) and Ted Tevoski (Ditko). But even if they didn't count as anagrams, they were illusions too.

You are conflating two different situations.

The Steeler's players were complaining that Goodel had too much power, long before this happened. They were also the only team to vote against the CBA (for that reason). The difference, until recently, is that Goodel didn't like James Harrison and some of the other Steelers, and he used to sit in Kraft's VIP suite at…

Yes, Goodell and the league don't have the high ground. But for those of us who think the Patriots were "morally contemptible" before this happened, they don't get to take the high ground either.

This.
Brady is not going to jail. He is getting work-related punishment.

"Go left!"
(thud)
"I meant your left, not mine. Dammit!"

Not so sure that Clinton will be blockaded by Congress less than anyone else, considering they hate her as much as anyone. But it is tough to tell what kind of logic drives the Republican leadership on a given day.

I think the Snopes article said it well:

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Never thought I would say this, but gotta disagree with you on this Cookie. The mere act of running has forced other politicians to discuss issues they would normally ignore. Hillary is leaning more left than if she was uncontested.

For this discussion, I'd add the blood rave scene from "Blade".
Everyone concerned with the film admitted later that the rest of the film couldn't match what they did in those opening moments. (I still like the rest of the film.)

You missed the obvious.
Lee, the largest Viper pilot, simply ate the other Viper pilots.

Has to be Adam Sandler, using his patented moron angry whining.