Notice that they didn't actually measure the amount of liquid. My guess is that there was deception and they were aware of it, but they were overfilling the 16oz cups to begin with, and not making as much skim as they thought they were because of it.

I saw that wrist and thought of this immediately.

Tell them someone has given them an office number belonging to the regional FTC office and that all alls are logged for review and auditing?

My Favorite Year, yet another of those marvelous films I have to see every other year or suffer withdrawal.

"As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office."

I'd rather see an Alien game starring Jones.

Whether brake lights are on or off, if the back end of a car is getting nearer to you, you slow down.

It WAS business as usual. Just Disney's business, not theirs.

I think the operative (and arbitrary) word here is 'sometimes'.

I like how the power needed for the hovering aircraft carrier was exactly 1.21 gigawatts. Think somebody fudged a little?

"and sometimes has a success rate as low as two percent."

The originals were made to amuse the people who made them. If they hadn't been, we wouldn't remember then now. Anyone who aims lower because they're aiming at kids must have no kids. And a really suck job.

whoops. "Inspector Imanishi Investigates."

One of my favorite books is an old Japanese classic: the end of WWII left Japan exposed to all sorts of American culture, and as a result Seicho Matsumoto wrote one of the first Japanese Hard Boiled Crime novels in 1961, the problem being that, within Japanese culture, asking questions (let alone prying into anyone's…

A Global governing body seems like an appealing idea until you actually listen to the ideas espoused by most regional governing bodies.

English ability to be plotted as a coherent, logical system is so burdened with exceptions and eccentric oddities that it does often make it difficult to think through rationally, but I will admit that if there is a lazy way to solve most particular problems, English will jump at what's easy.

I like how the artist appropriated skyscrapers from all over the world. I'm pretty sure I spot buildings from Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dubai, London and Chicago so far.

I hope so, but right now, there are 17 cities in China with over 1,000,000 cars, five with over 2,000,000. Traditional Chinese culture might go for bicycles and public transit, but so far, current urban China seems to lean towards private transport almost as strongly as U.S. cities do.