Closer to the truth than you might think. When I lived there, the French government tried to convince people to stop saying "le weekend" and use "le fin de semaine," and stop using "le bulldozer" and substitute the long French phrase for earth moving machine whose name I can't recall because everyone said "le bulldozer."

"The Last Of Us" fungus makes the leap from humans to autos.

Disney created characters to fit a story line, and the "strength" was just contrived. People want actual strong women, not what corporations want to push as strong women.

RIpley from Alien/Aliens
Sandra Bullock drove the bus in Speed
Wonder Woman

You don't have to like those, but their strength seems authentic.

(for the health benefits)

"We're from the government, and we're here to help you."

They can afford to make a prediction like that, because they have the resources to make it happen if it doesn't occur naturally.

It's weird to hear both "I have such a huge vocabulary" and "I can't think of the word for this" in the same sentence.

Doing CAD work (Unigraphics if you're interested) I use the mouse in one hand and the SpaceBall in the other. A SpaceBall is a sphere that you manipulate to make the object you're designing move...closer, farther, rotate, move left/right up/down, etc. It's weird to only be able to do certain tasks with your "off hand."

Pam Beesly voice: "They're the same picture."

In Hexadecimal, that number is $100.

If you are *required* to work extra, they better be paying you for those extra minutes. If not, there's a labor law violation right there.

No argument that this is a sign to look for a new job, because this can't be the lone asinine thing that employer does.

But no track suit?

Or is that the Serbians that do that?

The guys that got Mohawk haircuts were the Pathfinders. They jumped into Normandy on June 5/6 1944 to set up directional beacons to guide the gliders with troops for the June 6 D-Day invasion.

Imagine...being 19 or 20 or so, jumping by yourself onto a continent controlled by an enemy that many feel will win the war. You've got your carbine, a couple mags of ammo, a beacon and a job to do with dozens of men counting on you for the success of their mission, and maybe their lives. If you don't pull this off, the invasion may fail, and there won't be enough men, materiel, or possibly the will to try again.

No surprise those guys got a little wacky on D-Day minus 1!

Way to DISARM that criminal, Max!

Their abdomens are so large that their lips can never meet?

The other sequence of events is when the government puts in a tax "only on rich people," then they don't get as much money as they thought because people respond to incentives and disincentives, so they extend the tax down to the middle class. The middle class gets to pay because, like WIllie Sutton answered when asked why he robbed banks, "That's where the money is."

(I think that's actually more legend than fact, but it gets repeated often enough...)

Pocket handkerchief matches the tie? Very dapper!

Good job on rocking the suit, and of course, beating the C.

We climbed trees and jumped off swingsets to see who could fly the farthest. We jumped our bikes off ramps. We ate carrots and radishes from the garden after rinsing them off with a garden hose.

I never wanted my kids, or anyone else's, to break an arm or get sick or hurt in any way. However, IMO it's worth the small risk to not be raised in an antiseptic bubble and have no "kid adventures" or any concept of risk and consequence.

We also didn't have anywhere near today's instances of peanut allergies and sensitivities, which makes me wonder how much mommies using hand sanitizer at every turn contributed to the stunted immune systems.

Many years ago, a barge carrying a load of sodium sank in the Mississippi river. Spectacular!

I went to an exhibit of the "art" from the Fine Arts majors at my college. Blech. "It may look like garbage, but see how *edgy* it is, and progressive."

Some guy posts something fantastic--both in concept and in execution--on a site for cute memes. Wow. I hope that painting finds a good home, and everybody talks about it when they see it.

All the plots and characters would be *dark*, like what they did to Sabrina the Teenage Witch and also Archie and Jughead.

Having been a medium-level fan of Queen all along, it makes me happy to see people coming along now to join in appreciating how good they were.