As long as The Dinkles made some bank from this movie I’m happy. I never have to watch it, after all.

This is an excellently informative answer to a joky post. Thanks!

Why is a US destroyer named after an Australian TV series?

Since I can’t star Aldrin for punching that guy in the face I’ll star your post. The man was the epitome of politness and restraint until pushed too far.

what he really means is “we have no plan and no Big Idea to replace Downton Abbey, and the night is dark and full of terrors”

He was using the phone to call emergency services like a non-ghoulish human being, so no, he couldn’t get a shot of the aftermath.

Ah come on, the Beagle was made on a comparative shoestring and oh so nearly worked. It appears to have landed safely on Mars and deployed some of its solar panels; the final panel covers the radio antenna so a partial deployment means it couldn’t communicate with Earth. So close though, so close.

You fool! Their caffeine super powers will make coffee have less effect on you. It would be like the Midas touch, or that guy where everything turns to skittles.

Totally agree, and wish they’d at least had the chance to wrap the threads up and have a great big climactic battle. HBO decided the sets were too expensive (see also Rome) but realised later that Deadwood would have made them their money back and more in DVDs and streaming (see also Rome). Still, at least we got the…

super helpful!

Do the test results prove he wasn’t poisoned, or does this prove that the conspiracy is far wider and deeper than we thought?

Biathlon makes all kinds of sense - it’s basically winter hunting as a sport. Do it right in real life and you don’t starve to death when the blizzards hit.

All books have a different number of words, and the total number of books is greater than the total number of words in the largest book. The only way this works if there are 1 to n books containing 0 to n-1 words. One book must have zero words: it could be a picture book, a maths book, a popup book or a book with…

Nimona is SO, SO, GOOD. Also it is free. It is free to read on the internet, and it’s good. You should read it.

To be fair the muties had a pretty terrible time of it, even the ones with cool eye powers and viking sidekicks.

I am disappointed that you didn’t at least throw a “hooplehead” in there, or a reference to Dan versus the Captain. You disappoint me, Swearengen.

yeah that was a big miss. Surely could have shoehorned a Le Mans reference in there somewhere too.

It’s true. It was “a thing that would stun you” before it was “a thing that blows up”.

It has and it hasn’t, bookfisher. It meant “a thing that blows up”, like a naval mine or a buried charge on land. Then it was an explosive charge mounted on a long pole on the front of a boat, in the hope that the explosion damaged the enemy more than you, and nowadays it’s an underwater projectile thingy. The word…