I do it all the time. That joke about counting movie grosses in Turkish Lira I made a few years back about Malagasy Ariary.

I always thought not adjusting for inflation was completely ridiculous. Geraltcloud9 has some other good factors that complicate things slightly, but this is the least you should do. Otherwise, you might’s well say any Turkish movie was the most successful of all time just because it made more Turkish Lira than Star…

One cool things about w/g alternation is that the word “syringe” comes straightforwardly from the plural “syringes,” which was (like in your example) the plural of “syrinx.” Also, something about “larynx”/“laryngeal”

It is? That’s too bad. I switched to a video-only approach a few years back, but I’ve noticed that some of my favorite new-ish shows, like the one where they discuss the Trump administration as if it were a TV show, and the unscripted OPCD spin-off, have mysteriously disappeared. Still, “Some News” is right up there…

I’ve actually been there! A friend of the family was (is?) a member and gave us a (daytime of course) tour and it was a really neat set-up with lots of cool treehouses. It was like twenty years ago (I was in high school), so I didn’t really know much about what I was seeing. After that experience, where he emphasized…

Exactly! Benjamin is a great voice actor, in that when he voices characters he has fine emotional range, even if in the comedies for which he’s most famous he doesn’t always get to show it off. Welker and other chameleons have great skill as well in doing different voices, but that doesn’t necessarily make them (and…

I had a goal to read 50 books (TPB size or bigger) this year, and I’m only at 37, so I’m scrambling to find thirteen one-day reads to meet my goal. Novels are nice, but there’s no way I’d squeeze that many in, so I picked from this list and told my library to find them all. Phew!

Goddamnit, that doesn’t even work. “B” sounds are so obviously “b” sounds that you have to replace them with a “p” or an “m.” The “-itch” part could’ve been anything tho, so whoever dubbed it didn’t know what they were doing.

They’re both so good tho! I’dn’t wanna live in a world without either. Bushmill’s has a more interesting palate that I drink when I really wanna whiskey it up, but Jameson is so smooth. I actually got into Whiskey thru pop culture of a sort, since my favorite local bluegrass/folk band played several whiskey related…

...and yet

Not Arrow tho. I think the shows are balanced. Even as a liberal myself, I notice the leftist slant of Supergirl, but on Arrow they still use torture as an effective way to get information. Even when they pretended to have an even-handed gun episode, many of the people involved were vigilantes who routinely shoot…

Because they’re not dinosaurs; there was no real way to preserve their DNA in amber, so the genetic artists working for Hammond created things that looked like the popular imagination of dinosaurs out of extant DNA they could get their hands on. They tried to cover this up by saying that they “filled holes” with frog…

My only prollem is that McKinnon is mostly so endearing as Sessions that it (plus an ill-advised but intrinsic need to “take sides” when I hear about feuds between Trump and Sessions) fools me momentarily into forgetting that Sessions is a racist ne’er-do-well. (Along the same lines, the actors who play the Trump…

It wasn’t a typo, it was a conscious choice. In any case, “thru” meets your high standard but “tho” doesn’t? Huh...

In my interpretation, it actually kicked off a good run there, with The Usual Suspects (1995), Apt Pupil (1998), X-Men (2000), and X2 (2003).

And that, on a deeper level, they don’t need no stinkin’ badges.

Naturally. I may’ve wrytten that comment before figuring out how to italicize in Disqus. “Pronounce” should’ve been in italics.

Was Spacey originally in that? I’ve only ever seen the updated version where Plummer plays Vincennes, and it’s hard to picture anyone else in the role.

Yeah... is the Coconut Butter the butter part (replacing the butter of a grilled cheese as the Nutella replaces the cheese), or is it an internal ingredient?

Brick is pretty much my perfect movie. I enjoyed Looper, and Brothers Bloom was not without its charm, but it doesn’t matter: after Brick, he’s already got the lifetime pass.