Just looking a bit more on the internet, I see that apparently a company named “Elide” is still making such Fire Grenades, but:
a.) it appears to be filled with some dry chemical, not carbon tet
b.) It seems to be made of metal, not glass.
There are videos of them in action.
Not all of the old Fire Grenades used Carbon Tetrachloride. Some used salt water (which froxe at a lower temperature) or dry chemicals.
HCl grenades really wouldn’t be very effective as a weapon… The stuff’s just not all that nasty to flesh. As long as you didn’t get it in your eyes, you’d easily be able to finish a fight with the person who threw it. Nitric or sulfuric would be worse.
Take it up with Harry Harrison.
I still wouldn’t want to be hit by one. Fuming Hydrochloric acid ( concentration over 40%) is pretty nasty stuff.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The sound of a ticking stopwatch was added to heighten suspense. I think it’s in a few scenes. I noticed it toward the end, after they blow up and escape from the Cyberdyne building and just after their vehicle overturns. The ticking is heard after they emerge from the wreckage and are standing in the road.
The musical theme “Dies Irae” (Day of Wrath), from the medieval Mass for the Dead, has been used by countless composers (Berlioz, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and many many more) to symbolize death, doom, damnation, apocalypse.
I just now realized that Tony Banks played it on piano, very much sped up, in “The Return of the Giant Hogweed” from Nursery Cryme by Genesis. The song’s penultimate section, the instrumental “Dance of the Giant Hogweed,” starts off with “Dies Irae.” I’d had every note of that song ingrained in my memory for decades, and was familiar with “Dies Irae” from classical music, so to realize I’d missed the obvious after the millionth time was a real face-slapper.
If you watch Animaniacs, a million times Dot, Yakko, and Wakko introduce themselves as “The Warner brothers, and the Warner sister”. However, their actual names were Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, Sadie, Milton, David, Fannie, Anna, and Rose. So, who is who? 
To be fair, nobody really dies of AIDS, they die of HepC or cancer or TB… (I see others pointed this out)
Please. Her full name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca III.
At the beginning of Ghostbusters 2, Peter Venkman is hosting a TV show called “World of the Psychic”. One of the guests says he has a strong psychic premonition that the world will end on New Year’s Eve. Peter makes jokes about it, and the guy certainly appears to be bogus, but the finale of the movie where Vigo attempts to possess baby Oscar and take over the world does happen on New Year’s Eve.
Strangely, a lot of the outdoor scenes don’t look like the middle of winter in New York City. And I didn’t see any references to Christmas, which happened just a few days before.
In AC/DC’s song Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Bon Scott gives out the phone number 362-4360/8, with a big high school debate as to the last digit.Did he say “oh” or “eight”? Years later I worked with someone from Australia who pointed out it was neither. It was “hey!”, as Australian phone numbers prior to the 1990s were only 6 digits, written in blocks of 2.
So the number was 36-24-36…hey, wait a minute… 
Not true; we see the Ghostbusters rushing to a job in Santa hats.
I caught a rerun of The Big Bang Theory last night - the one where Wil Wheaton is hosting a celebrity D&D game and the guys are all trying to crash it. I’ve seen this episode several times, but noticed for the first time when the guys show up at Wil Wheaton’s door that his house number is “1701”.
So…is this the Enterprise’s number or something?
Yes - “NCC-1701” was the naval designation for the Enterprise. Sorry, I guess I should have explained that for non Trek fans. 
In Conjunction Junction, the OR car is a literal ore car.
Ha-ha, haven’t heard that in almost 50 years and it still sounds great!
Hookin’ up words and phrases and clauses…
Just found one today.
In Tim Minchin’s song ‘Prejudice’ there is a subtle lighting change that happens at the critical part of the song. The lighting on his piano changes colour (I don’t want to give it away for those who haven’t seen it before. Trust me, it’s worth watching if you haven’t seen it). I’ve checked a couple of his other live performances on Youtube, and it always happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw&ab_channel=TimMinchin
In Guardians of the Galaxy, I just realized that the song playing when Star Lord is jetting away from prison is “Escape” by Rupert Holmes.
I was only vaguely aware of Tim Minchin as “that Russell Brand-esque guy with the dreads and the guyliner”. Until I recently stumbled across videos of his powerful portrayal of Judas in a 2012 production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Amazing.
It’s not exactly obvious, but in the opening number, “Heaven On Their Minds”, he gives a little eyeroll as he sings the line “You really do believe this talk of God is true”. Minchin is of course a notable atheist.
Watched the film (again) recently and I did laugh at that.