Got it. Tried ‘em this morning and they were a hit with everybody. Unsurprisingly.

Guess I should give Krusteaz another try. In my youth I had a lot of Krusteaz pancakes that I found tasteless and unpleasant, but they were also underdone and as thin as tortillas so it might have been a case of user error.

Think I’ll try this tomorrow.  Quick question:  you say to add the same amount of water as usual, but I’ve never used a pancake mix that doesn’t require milk, oil, and an egg.  So is your advice “slowly add the same additional ingredients as usual” or “replace the additional ingredients with water”?

I guess it all really boils down to context. In business or government communications (for example) grammatic errors can cause confusion, potential lawsuits, or make you and your organization look idiotic.

Maybe it’s more an “ok but hear me out; I just unexpectedly discovered this good thing that you otherwise wouldn’t think to try” thing.

“what if soy sauce, but too much?”

I’ve never heard of snow eggs. Is this more it less the same thing as floating island?

Look, I'm too lazy to go through the greys, but I appreciate the nod to SpellCraft: Aspects of Valor. Anyone else ever play that one? I was a big fan, though I never finished it.

Star Wars and Star Trek had sparkly vampires to unite against.  Who’s the common enemy of Marvel and DC fans? The Judean People’s Front, maybe?

If this doesn’t have a disco soundtrack by Jeff Wayne, I will be sorely disappointed.

Ehh, just leave the theater a few minutes early. Problem solved.

Generally speaking the existence of life isn’t particularly plausible either so I give the original ending a pass.

Noted.

I remember reading about it in the TV listings as a kid, and it only took me two decades to get around to watching it. I was unimpressed in the way that happens when you build up expectations based on descriptions from other people. I bet it would have been more fun if I’d grown up with it.

“Did we really need “inspo” to be a word?”

Oh. I um, skipped directly to the content.

Now that one isn’t offensive (well, not in the same way, anyway), but I’ve never figured out how putting the word “the” in front changes that word from bad to good.

Apologies for not formatting the quote correctly (IDK where the button to quote text in Kinja went?), but this is the best part of an interview...with yourself:

I’m sure that phrase bothers some people, but it doesn’t have any particular cultural associations. The issue I see with “the bomb” is that that phrase often refers to a very specific bomb whose effects still resonate with part of the population.

I take your point, but I don’t think that’s a very good example because “the bomb” has more or less fallen out of usage (hasn’t it?). If people in 2019 were still saying “the bomb” as often as they did in 1997, we’d probably be discussing it in the same way we discuss “like crack”.