Did anyone else think that the on-screen destruction of Vulcan and Romulus was an attempt to one-up Alderaan?
...and Iowa jumps out of the pack of pending judicial cases to snatch the bronze and prevent a sweep for New England!
Mark @6,
So there might be a photo-finish as VT and NH scrample to be the third SSM state? Exciting!
Serge @47,
Dungeons & Dragons 2 was much better than Dungeons & Dragons 1. Which I saw in the theatre.
And how can you hate a movie that contains the sentence "you have transgressed into the necropolis of Klex the Malign"?
C. Wingate @14:
Sweet. I was trying to do something with "Whose plums these are I think I know" but work kept interfering.
So what the ad is saying is that John McCain doesn't want kids to be protected from sexual predators? That's the message I get from it.
Sarah S @8:
I learned a two-verse version at church youth retreats:*
Biff Biff Bam Bam
Son of a bitch, god damn
Hidy Tidy Christ Almighty
Rah Rah Fuck!
Rah once, rah twice,
Holy Jumping** Jesus Christ
Biff Bam God Damn
Rah Rah Shit!
*Yes, Unitarian Universalist ones.
**Sometimes "Humping".
Terry @6:
Pangere de verbo sat certe distichon unum
Tangere rem si vis calliditatis acu.
Heh. iTunes decided to play the filksong "Dumb Dumb Dorothy" while I was reading this.
Lee @193:
The right choice of dice can be useful even in a non-superstitious way. A few years ago, I was playing a halfling character. So I purchased some of those 2" dice and a large bag. Seeing them in my hands produced an instant scale illusion, and I could get a better feeling for how small I was in the game world.
There is a difference between nil nisi bonum mortuis and rejoicing over someone's death. There's even a difference between rejoicing that someone will no longer cause more evil and rejoicing that they are dead. And "conservatives rejoice over the deaths of liberals" is not a great argument that rejoicing over the deaths of conservatives is a good thing for liberals to do.
Are you doing three designs or six?
Phil @29,
The Big Idea is actually hilarious when simply played using an Apples to Apples deck.
Must...not...make...puerile...Florida...joke!
As far as signs go, do other cities have Boston's rule where when two streets intersect, only the smaller street has to reveal its name?
The discussion of signs also makes me think of the MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle The Road Signs of Unspeakable Chaos from a few years ago.
Fragano @480:
Now you've got me curious. Can you say who and what this is?
Fragano @441: "Best" in what way? I think "'til you f**k up or die" might be good, but I doubt that's what you're looking for. "To life or fault" is more literal, but not as clear to an English speaker.
CHip @96: Latin doesn't have unspecified number any more than English does. In practice you'd want to use "nitent" if there were multiple shiny things. As far as the interjection goes, my Oxford Latin Dictionary says that (h)eia is for various attitudes, including astonishment. It even gives the quote "Heia ut elegans est!" from Terence's Self-Tormentor. So I think "Eia, nitet!" is pretty good.
97 is the largest two-digit prime number.
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