You see, a woman with time on her hands would be called “Deborah”. But busy women, they don’t have time for those barely-pronounced letters!

*Garfield director Zang Yimou

Perhaps he looks Hollywood-still-wants-to-get-hiredy.

OK, but B+ for spelling, right?

Tolkien’s work is full of humour, particularly wherever hobbits enter the picture. The man who invented Second Breakfast was full of warm wit. If you want dry tales of good versus evil, look to his (chiefly American) imitators.

I agree that metaphor and subtext are not in any way a part of fiction, and that every time you tell a joke you should say “Dat’s da joke” in an Austrian accent, just to make sure the audience gets it.

It’s pronounced “BigbooTAY”!

You’ve seen Rogue One right? Dark Forces was that, only Cassian was called Kyle and Jyn was called Jan. The movie ends just before restoring to the last save point.

So I don’t get it. Does “bake off” mean something sexual in American? Or is it racist?

Let’s say you hire Nicolas Cage, for example. To play Superman. Is Nicolas Cage a bad actor? Don’t say “sometimes”. No he’s not a bad actor. Is there a universe where he delivers a Superman people will want to see? Sure. Not this universe.

Future Supreme Court Justices all!

Within the last 12 months!

France is a Republic, and has no aristocratic titles. But a few of the people who would have inherited these titles were they still official, still cling to them out of... I don’t know what. So that’s what this is, for what it’s worth.

“That’s Deposed Crown Prince Nigeria to you, mortal! Speaking of which, you may be able to help me...”

“Catdrizzle”!

<Australian accent>That’s not a jaw. That’s a jaw!</Australian accent>

Do they even have those in Canada? I think they were still on pounds, shillings and pence in 1969.

Be very suspicious. Let’s look at what the AHA said:

Can we also call a mora-bloody-torium on kid-friendly “parodies” of stuff that’s for grown-ups? Kids don’t get the references and when they finally see the original material, it’s been spoiled for them: “I don’t understand Dracula! I’m halfway through the book and he’s not counted anything yet! He just goes around…

It’s time to put aside the notion that you “raise revenue to fund spending”. Modern monetary theory provides the essential insight that the spending comes first: the tax is extracted post-hoc in order to rebalance the money supply. Essentially, governments have an infinite supply of money because currency is a…