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The pilot season(first 6 episodes) of Seinfeld was pretty mehh, but the 1991 Season may be some of best sitcoms ever made
That might be the guy P.J. O’Rourke was having dinner with in London:
Back when I was a school child in Hawaii, we were taught about the receding ocean and fleeing.
Maybe that’s what Obama meant when he said the rise of the sea levels would slow – that there was a tsunami on the way. The next eight years did about as much harm.
Pixar’s Up is on my list for best movies of the century.
Fresch Fisch
Pixar’s Up is on my list for best movies of the century.
Intially, I didn’t see that Up was capitalized and saw this as a general endorsement of Pixar. Which would be fair. There are a number of Pixar films that could be argued to be among the best of the century: Up, Ratatoulille, Inside Out, Toy Story III, Wall-E, and my favorite, The Incredibles.
My go-to for ‘party name’ or ‘prison name’ is ‘wasn’t she a minor Bond girl?’
As it happens, some of our constituencies play this game quite well:
Cannock Chase
Chipping Barnet
Hazel Grove
Saffron Walden
Surrey Heath
Sutton Coldfield
Taunton Deane
– could all have been Bond girls.
Bill Bryson, in Notes from a Small Island, has a hilarious extended riff on British place-names.
The homeworld of the Klingon Empire is Qo’noS transliterated as Kronos.