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I remember best the bobbing-for-acid scene with the custodian.

@Enituopsar There are always minor differences between book and movie, but the movie and the book are very close - indeed, it is one of the few Christie stories adapted with so little change in each adaptation. The book is fairly short, and a very easy read. It also helps out a little with some ...

@SuperJamesus That is, as KemmlerTMB says, plausible. Even moreso as, in the original novella, "Who Goes There?" the protagonists wonder aloud if the thing in the ice was even The Thing's real form, or just one it had recently assimilated. Of course, given the obvious similarities to "At the Mo...

@hiimquinn No problem. Clearly I wasn't being clear, while trying to be funny.

And DMC12guy - Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU! I haven't seen this in a good 25 years or so, and it is still a masterpiece of slapstick comedy, even from an adult pov.

@ataraxic89 Yes, but you're replying to *me* - and I don't care about your thoughts or actions.

Infidelity was rampant with every male! Plantation owners with slaves?! Lord Nelson observed that, beyond Gibraltar, every sailor was a bachelor. It was not just common, but expected in an age of arranged marriages. Two exceptions, in that period, were Adams and George III, who seemed to gen...

This entire conversation is evidence of the idiocy of the "Ron-Paul-almost-a-libertarian" nonsense. The stupidity of his "simple" solutions is matched only by the stupidity of those who think they're actual solutions! Everyone governing themselves - fine, go to the woods, live on your own, neit...

@Snicklefritz1979 Indeed! That's why you have so many "Van" this-or-that's in New York's history, and fiction (the Van Tassels, e.g.).

Edward Rutledge of South Carolina (wealthy Southerners wore brighter clothing, elaborate wigs, and adopted European mannerisms), was a British-trained lawyer, described by Dr. Hall of GA (iirc) as having a "very nasal voice, like New Englanders when they sing hymnody." His opposition, having bee...

I am pleased that they didn't depict George as fat and unattractive - he was a rather handsome fellow, and I'm hardly surprised that Brother Jerome's (from Cadfael) descendants would teach toadying.

@j3parrots Julian Wadham. Personally, I like Pitt, though I'm liberal. His conservatism was actually pragmatism.

I do find that the woman playing at hostess is enjoying her part far too much. Snobs are always natural bullies.

@Mivimata That was what George III said, not a personal revelation.

I can't remember who wrote the epitaph:

Tho' George the First vile was reckon'd

Viler still was George the Second,

And what mortal ever heard

Any good of George the Third.

When George the Fourth to Hell descended,

God be praised the Georges ended.

Perhaps, because in 1805 Britain was *not* at war with the United States. That's why it was called the War of 1812. It was an ill-advised war, fed by anti-British hate, exacerbated by an unfortunate misunderstanding, and urged on by the 19th Century equivalents of Dubya, Rumsfeld and Cheney. I...

The problem isn't the two kids - they're young enough to be trained better. The problem is the coaching, as primary cause, but also the parenting - if I attended a game my son was in and saw him do this, I'd have some serious words with him and the coach both. Coach Garza needs to be removed fr...

Ah! Now, see children . . . the way the Roman Catholic "padres" are being treated in Japan, that's what they call in the East "Karma" and what esoteric Judaism refers to as "Tikkun" and what Christians refer to as "The Golden Rule." You get what you give.

"Please invade Mino!"

"Well, jeez, Honey, can it wait 'til I've had a little nap?"

And I thought it was just *my* mother who was like that!

Now, see, if someone had just kicked Nobuyuki's ass up around his ears a few times, he might not have been such a twit.

Ah, yeah - I remember me and the lads, shooting a kids running around in the park. Good times, good times!

WTF?

And what's with that sneering, lazy-eyed psycho who beats himself with a whip?

Look, this ain't Christian, it's just B. S. - saccharine crud. I can only assume it's a rosy picture coming from a feeling of guilt over the so-called Martyrs of Japan, who were mainly Spanish political operatives, ...

In an American version, Zuiten would be played by Jack Nicholson and Rui by Kathy Bates.

I gotta stir the nabe, get these katanas to Jimmy . . .

According to the histories, Nobunaga left a - literally - dummy force at the temple to make it appear the main force never left, came around the gorge with his main force, and, after a hot day, the rain storm brought relief to the Imagawa, who, satisfied at their invincibility, began to celebrate...

On a lighter note, I've never heard bare/stocking feet make that much noise on a wooden floor before. Walk like a man!

@bboynaki I have a country - the U. S. - and no time for silly children.

@TheKaeptnKoma Damned Ewoks. Spray and spray and they still come back. :D

The world wouldn't have shaped itself as it has without both civilizations, both for the good and the bad. I'm not sure one would have overmatched the other, and like as not, generations of wasteful warfare would've depleted the populations of both empires.

@frejarimmer - I would add that gays just might be considered human, as well.

@DDcasanova - sorry, I would say, more correctly it's Calypso music - it has a bit of steel drum in it.

This is, once again, a great production from Code Masters and Triumph, with all the humor of a Pratchett . . . but - I'm beginning to think a good title would've been Overlord II: No Fat Chicks.

Yes, Simon . . . it's over. (Punches him)

Darling, let's *not* have your Uncle Nicholas and his friends back, next holiday.

See, this is why I was always against having liquor at church potlucks. Then Rob Zombie comes over and squats on your rock garden; it's just a headache.

A quarter of this movie is Rex wrecking or losing his friends' cars.

And so, mindless medieval superstition sabotaged the earliest attempts at a Hadron chicken collider.

So, he was Richelieu before he was Rochefort! :D