Shocking!

Everyone knows that Lucas pretty much just translated directly from the original Icelandic saga.

That's what drives me crazy about these Sunday puzzles. Up until today, they've all been pure mathematical puzzles - by which I mean that they are designed to be solved by pure math and require all traces of practicality to be ignored. Everyone has perfect memory, logic, and instant computational ability, while my…

Question - what precisely does one do with cookie butter? It sounds delicious, but not like something I'd eat straight from the jar, and I'm having trouble picturing the intended use. Smear it onto butter cookies like frosting?

Interesting. I'd never heard of those before!

Interesting. I'd never heard of those before!

I'm guessing you mean when Beverly's gross abusive father freaks out about her hanging out with boys and demands proof of her continued virginity?

I can't really speak to its reception at the time, but that scene has most definitely built a backlash since then (as you can see from all the comments on this post!). I think the only way it sneaks under the radar even a little is that IMO the scene isn't terribly graphic. There's absolutely no doubt what they're…

The police sketch artist starts edging away from you...

Yes, the book is the same.

*spoilers* The main characters, as ~11 years old children, near the end of the flashback parts of the book. They were trapped in the sewers with It, and in order to escape each of the boys has sex with the one girl as some sort of weird passage into adulthood ritual bullshit.

Ugh. I disliked being a child when I was a child. You couldn't pay me enough to go back to it.

I wore contact lenses throughout college and most of my 20s pretty much exclusively. One day, my eyes spontaneously decided that they couldn't tolerate contacts for more than a couple of minutes at a time. My habit of making sure to have a pair of reasonably up to date glasses handy paid off that day. Otherwise I'd…

Like the aforementioned "Survivor" and "Real World", you may not like what "American Idol" did to television, but there's no denying that it did it. Without its massive success, the entire reality talent show competition genre would be non-existent on American tv - The Voice, America's Got Talent, So You Think You Can…

As far as I know, the shortages were specific to that year. Even I had a hard time getting it that year, and my immune system is complete crap - my doctor just didn't have any for the longest time, and had big signs in the waiting room to that effect. I haven't had a problem getting a shot since.

I was just (internally) debating that. Honestly, I don't think it matters as long as the Sanctum Sanctorum is still in New York and has the window. It makes no other material difference to the character.

Given that KGBeast has arguably the worst villain name in comics (dated, hard to say out loud without adding an extra 'B', etc.), it's all for the best to leave it unspoken.

Eh. Actually, I think that some meta-weirdness in a movie set on Earth might be the only thing that could break the MCU.

Serious question. Can you tell me your top 5 plotless novels then? Because you're going to have to pony up some examples to prove to me that such a thing can be good.

Honestly, I've never followed Suicide Squad closely, and it's been years since I've bought comics regularly in general (I went cold turkey for financial reasons). I didn't realize until this evening that a thin Waller ever even existed.