I have two swords from Advanced Light Weaponry (http://www.advanced-light.com/). Granted they are a display* version of Fidelacchius and a convention safe cane. I’m still saving money for the lightsaber version. Friends who had multiple custom sabers from ALW turned me on to the company. They were all combat capable,…

I see this and think of my then three year old daughter in a fast food restaurant playground. For about 3o minutes a six to seven year old boy was pushing, pulling, and holding my daughter. She didn’t seem to have the verbal skill to convince him to stop. So, she bit him.

Yes, and after you do it, call all of your friends and tell them goodbye. Then change your name, quit your job, and move to a different state. Chances are they will dump you for homewrecking L and J’s marriage and the number of people who will understand with their heads that L used you and you were just too weak to…

Well, this was the early 60’s and a smallish town. I’m sure most folks knew the uncle was into shady things. No one really wanted to make a stink.

Yeah, it’s amazing where you can find organized crime. My maternal grandfather was a minister. He got a new church in Missouri when my mother was in high school. My mom’s best friend in the new school was the son of a butcher and the nephew of a mafia don. When another man opened a butcher shop around the corner from…

True story*:

So, I once started an international incident between the U.S. and Russian armies. I was deployed to Bosnia. I was driving a Humvee to a small town so our commander could meet with some folks. The only road into town was guarded by the Russians. The Russians parked a BMP in the middle of this very small road. I was…

Imagine cracking the first beer on Mars.

Oh ok - so you can't get laid, so you resort to having a wife? Everyone knows that girls have sex, and wives do not.

Amen, I'm in the same boat. I get compliments and think "yeah, you're seeing them on a good day." Though mostly my kids save the real melt downs for home, the car, or that point where they've had more than your average child can take. Their way of saying, "I'm hungry, tired, walked out and now you want what out of…

I was in the Army for 12 years. You know the salaried job that can limit your sleep to 4 hours per day if needs demand (this includes training and general work, not just war time) all while you could get shot at? I always followed one boss' advice "never pay for anything that's job related, never work for free." If…

Ah, but the gospels don't conflict THAT much. There are far more similarities than not. Those differences tend to be either 1) one mentions an event the others don't, or 2) each subsequent book seeks to add more supernatural elements to the story. Equally, it is not surprising the stories were written so far after…

It is pretty significant. Though, there was always the view that Jesus might have been married due to the fact he was considered a rabbi and rabbis were required to be married in Jesus' time.

Nah, deep dish pizza is to geometry and the space-time continuum the way non-Euclidean geometry is a sure sign you've wandered into Cthulhu's house and are about to get devoured, or go mad, or possibly both.

No, it is more weird how you're equating this as being food safety, and then equating it to industrial safety.

Illusion with no actual backing is "necessary" in your book? Cool. Good to know.

Yes, but the waiter is also the last line in the "f'ed up food" defense chain. Cook forgot to hold the mushrooms? The waiter should have caught that. Gianormous hair on the plate? Waiter again. Granted when a place is slammed or the place uses someone else to deliver food, it's not the waiter's fault. They still…

I tip after booze, but before tax. The boozeman deserves his cut. The taxman is already getting his.

When have cupcakes ever not been a valid form of currency?

Yes, then, we were talking at cross purposes. I do think my wife's is more "doesn't distract herself" and less "silent". Lord knows half a dozen things are going through my head when I read. I have to wade through those to get at the text, even when those thoughts are about the text ("gee, I'd kick Lucius Malfoy in…