And that reason is, every time he finishes a call, he announces, “What a marvelous contraption. Another!” and then smashes it on the ground.

Based on Pearce’s performance, I was guessing Black wanted to cast Val Kilmer in the role, but Kilmer was too out of shape to play the character as written.

Well, yeah, and I usually refer to people from Germany or Portugal or Greece as Germans, Portuguese, or Greeks. That doesn’t mean the word “European” shouldn’t exist.

Incorrect, “Hispanic” refers only to ethnicities of Spanish descent. So while a Mexican or Argentinian could be referred to as “Hispanic,” the designation would not be appropriate for, say, a Brazilian (Portuguese descent) or Haitian (African descent), but all four are considered Latinx.

I think “latinx” is designed specifically to avoid using one.

Pronouncing it “latinex” I can see—that way, it has the same number of syllables as the gendered constructions of the word, and it sounds similar to the suffix “-ics,” which is already used in other English words (mathematics, Hispanics, etc).

How do none of these examples have someone selecting Oddjob

Kids these days! I remember when dogs had blogs!

Of course fucking baseball has two different statistics for when a player is being pitched to.

Even if he’s batting .400, that would mean that the pitcher would have better-than-even odds of getting him out at any given at-bat.

Got to love a team where the DH is hitting .250

They chortle thinking about it as they tuck into their Irish Baby dinners.

I always found Ferrell funnier for his slightly-grandiloquent diction and unexpected line readings rather than his shouting. It’s not that he’s shouting “I drive a Dodge Stratus!” that’s funny, it’s that he’s shouting, “I drive a Dodge Stratus.” If that makes sense.

I’ve never seen the original Wicker Man, so I missed it. No excuse for missing The Shining--I guess I don’t think about it as much since it’s just one scene.

Eh, the book makes it clear that the “Indian burial ground” predated the Micmac tribes that were the last to use it, and was likely always some old, evil place where buried things didn’t stay dead, no matter what group of people was currently laying claim to it.

Weirdly enough, the only movies I can think of right now that use creepy animal masks are The Purge and You’re Next, both of which are exemplary horror films.

THE BAY AREAR AND BACK DOWN

*kids walk into the room*

Hexxus A) was voiced by Tim Curry, and B) earned his wealth by tearing it out of the world’s verdant rainforests with his own two smog-choked hands, both of which place him above Trump in any reasonable hierarchy.

Either that or the male romantic interest in FernGully: The Last Rainforest.