Heh, I guess I just assumed that the Proper English Gentleman of the day would have carefully pronounced it "two pence" to distinguish himself from the "tuppence"-saying riffraff on the street.

Interesting, I never knew that she was a song-and-dance type in the pre-John Carpenter days.

The one with Rosie O'Donnell as Rizzo?

It was relegated to being played on the jukebox in the background when they're in the diner, but it's still there on the soundtrack album, so I say it counts. (It's my favorite song from the soundtrack too.)

Yes, but he's still exactly the same guy underneath. Sandy underwent a complete personality transplant.

Eh, they're all in there in diegetic form, playing in the background on a jukebox or someone's car radio. To answer your post above, so is "It's Raining On Prom Night."

Sadly, I was well into adulthood when I figured out that it was Cockney-speak for "two pence."

Given the existence of those poor souls who think the prequels are better than the OT, this shouldn't be too surprising.

"its a movie about the 50s with a disco theme for some reason."

Or "Beauty School Dropout". Or "There Are Worse Things I Could Do." Or "Freddy My Love." Or "Those Magic Changes." Or "Hopelessly Devoted To You." Or "Mooning".

What does it feel like to not have a soul?

This article couldn't be more wrong if its head were on backwards, and for one simple reason: while both movies might be equally lacking in intellectual merit, the first movie had great songs and the second one didn't. Actually, it didn't even have good ones, and that includes "Reproduction" and "Cool Rider." And it's…

Ugh, I feel your pain and I hope it's over quickly.

I guess Iceland's banking executives and government officials don't all belong to the same country clubs the way they do here.

I got it! And I justified working on it at my desk by turning it into a data science project that I could figure out in R*. Thanks for sharing; it helped me kill a quiet work day. (Also, I started reading that book a long time ago and always meant to get back to it.)

On the other side of that, I once got a rejection email a full year and a half after the second interview. I couldn't resist writing back and saying, "aw jeez, now I have to change my plans."

A woman I knew died in her sleep yesterday at 38 years old. She was kind, caring, and funny as hell. I'd worked with her at a restaurant job ages ago, and Mrs BlahBlah and I ran into her years later when she waited on us at another restaurant. Mrs BlahBlah had never met her before and at some point complimented her on…

I haven't been to Iceland (yet!), but I've spent some time in Canada, and my takeaway is always "this is what the US would be like if the assholes hadn't won." I'm glad you had a good time over there.

Well, the scenery is nice.

"So you agreed with President Obama on Libya or not?"