The non-first edition cover to Lolita is pretty iconic.

Well, every rose has its thorn.

We can comment on For Our Considerations now? This won't end well.

Yes, but he would have a copyright on a work containing the public domain material. Copyright protects excerpts from works, but it requires human intelligence to determine which excerpts are infringing and which aren't, (ie, an "excerpt" which is just a preexisting public domain work obviously isn't) and Youtube's…

I don't think that's true, really. Capitalists are very happy to screw each other over when it's profitable, and Google would profit immensely if they could just tell copyright holders to fuck off. They've gone to court arguing that things like Google Books or Google News fall under fair use. It's just picking fights…

Hypercolor was more of an early 90s thing.

Only one sequel was theatrical and then a bunch of direct to DVD sequels which didn't have the same family. Basically, direct to DVD movies about dogs are easy money, and if they use a St. Bernard they can slap a familiar brand name on them.

Not really? People can dehumanize people and still like them. People often like objects, and get a lot of happiness from objects. Objects are great. The problem with objectification isn't that it's hateful, but that it's hurtful and disrespectful, not acknowledging the desires and agency that people have.

Of course boobs can be funny. They're round and squishy, that alone is, like, a funny shape.

But people would pay good money to see someone strand on stage and just talk. Orators were a pretty popular attraction in the 19th century. But although some of them were funny, they weren't really exclusively comedians, so I mean I dunno.

I upvoted myself in that "suggest what song you want to be in AV Club Undercover," because damn it I want some random indie rock band to play a Katy Perry song.

Ununion.

Clownfish are sequential hermaphrodites.

Proof that the SAT is biased in favor of white people.

Okay but seriously, the original recipe contained egg, so it was called Ovomaltine, which was abbreviated to Ovaltine when they started selling it in the English-speaking world.

That was a fake rhinoceros, you insensitive clod!

It's not a very good joke.

Eh, just because you're the apprentice to the Emperor doesn't mean you get to be vice-Emperor.

There's something more or less interestingly progressive about someone from a genderless species identifying as female. Realistically it's probably just Smurfette syndrome, but the way Nintendo characterizes the toads is just ambivalent enough to make a better interpretation work.

American Experience did an episode about him a while ago.