Objective dates are like life preservers in a stormy sea.
I’m well-acquainted with the theatrical prohibition of uttering the title “Mac—-“ in a theatre, but I guess I’ve never personally heard of a superstition about speaking lines from the play. It’s not surprising, per se, I’ve just never heard of anyone taking it that far.
TikTok’s algorithms took me to a content creator who is a drag queen and makes videos about counting, equations, and other mathematical tidbits. It too me several videos to figure out her name.
Carrie The One
I thought it was set in New Zealand.
Please let us know!
Thanks. I will.
That’s where the Māori are from.
I’m confused. I thought @mordecaiB said their wife believed it was set in Ireland?
OH. I get it now. Never mind. 
One of my favorite small bits in film. You wouldn’t guess that Star Wars could be so subtle about something…
I’m looking forward to this. Gnome/Greenberg figured a lot in my early science fiction reading. I’d love to hear some of the background involved.
Good one, that never occurred to me. At least I have the excuse of only seeing the original trilogy twice, decades apart. I wonder how many fanboys missed this.
I will admit the actors pronounce the word with what I assume is a more accurate pronunciation than I do, so, at first, I wouldn’t understand what they were saying. But that took me like a couple of episodes to tune my ear? I’m still laughing at his wife though. 
That’s okay, I’m still laughing too. I think I’ll get a lot of mileage out of this one.
I’m watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show right now and I just noticed that Brad gets tuned into a nude statue he’s uncircumcised. Which is normal for that style of statue, but a bit unusual for a male WASP of Brad’s generation.
“Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack” is unnecessary. Cracker Jack already has peanuts in it.
I agree. I did read Asimov’s bio (both volumes) for the first time last year and the version I gave wasn’t in there. But many years ago I read it in something else Asimov himself wrote. Asimov’s sense of what was right and Greenberg’s harsh response made a distinct impression on me. Unfortunately, I’ve forgotten the context. If I come across it, I’ll post it here.
Yes, but ‘peanuts’ is referring to a bag of salted in the shell ones, which are the only aisle vended item that it is safe for the seller to toss to you.
Sure, it is possible to buy both peanuts and Cracker Jack. It just seems kind of unnecessary to order two different forms of peanuts, unless you’re doing some kind of “peanuts at the ballpark” episode of your peanuts podcast for the Peanut Marketing Board.
There are relatively few peanuts in a box of Cracker Jack, and they are coated in a (tasty) sugary glaze.
If you want actual peanuts, you need to buy the bag of peanuts.
Cracker Jack is a sweet snack; peanuts are a salty snack. They are completely different animals. Why some one would want both at the same time, I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader.
The song as written certainly scans better than:
Buy me some peanuts and light beer.
I don't care is nobody's near.