I've known plenty of smokers - doesn't matter how broke they are, they always have money for smokes.

I never cared for all the smoking. And not just because smoking is gross, but because they were on a spaceship. Breathable atmo is at a premium to begin with, and they went ahead and made it worse.

'struth.

Me too. Well, this and Gai King. And Dengard Aces. Those were the shit, yo.

Ask Johnny Depp.

I went to school with a Tranh, if that helps.

Pfff. Shakespeare did it first.

Look, all swashbucklers are swordsmen, but not all swordsmen are swashbucklers. Just because you learn how to fence, doesn't make you a swashbuckler. Not a lot of swashbuckling going on in 1860, anyway.

I thought he took LOXG because he had passed on Lord of the Rings. He didn't "get" Tolkien, anymore than he "got" LOXG, but having missed out on Rings, he went with League in case it turned out to be a hit too. Or so the story was told to me, at any rate.

I did get a lot more out of Superfudge, as the middle child.

Well, yeah. That was the lesson from the first movie. He's not insecure - he's humble.

One of the reasons I liked the first Thor movie is that, unlike literally every other superhero, he had a mom and a dad. One the reasons why I didn't like Dark World so much was that they killed off his mom for no good reason.

Well he was doing the Darth Vader thing. He wanted to win her over to his side, until she proved that was impossible. Then he went for the kill. Poor dumb bastard.

The Amazons are immortal in the sense that the Elves from Middle-Earth are immortal - they don't age past a certain point, but if you stab them they will die. This is supposed to be because the Amazons are reincarnated/resurrected by the gods from all the women who were raped, abused, and murdered by men… so…

Oh sure. The best thing to happen to Catholics in the US was the communist revolution. The pope came out against communism, and since Americans had something more pressing to worry about than Papists, Catholics kind of got away with existing without harassment.

Fertilizer, Dik.

A donation has been placed in your name to the Human Fund.

Solidarity, Reg.

I read the Lord of the Rings in the third grade and by the time sixth grade rolled around, the time when people are supposed to be reading Judy Blume one assumes, I was reading everything by Stephen King instead. I did read some YA lit, even some Blume, but generally when we went to the bookstore, I was shopping the…

My older brother was a big fan of that book. I read it when he was done, didn't get the big deal.