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• Commented on New Catholic video game promises to brings family closer to heaven
  They need to reposition it as an FPS, call it "Critical Mass: We Prey." Then they'd have something....
• Commented on Fireplace named world's most beautiful object
  I bet it's less beautiful when you're trying to shovel the ashes out and not get them on your living room floor....
• Commented on Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library
  Nah, someone else had it right - "Xinos" is obviously Greek for "Burns"....
• Commented on Wails and Murmurs: Eating Couscous at the Chi-Chi's in Walla-Walla
  Lang Lang is male, but there are surely many female examples in Asian countries....
• Commented on What plagiarism looks like
  It's only plagiarism when done poorly. Or so I've heard....
• Commented on Country doctor uses household drill on patient's skull
  That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me......
• Commented on Notes From the Underground
  Frequent cool stuff about the NY subways in the NYT Abstract City blog, including: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/the-boys-and-the-subway/...
• Commented on Man coughs up 30-year-old nail
  Any chance Dr. House had something to do with this?...
• Commented on Modern day Noah's Ark replica
  How much gopherwood would a gopher go for if a gopher would go for wood?...
• Commented on BB Video: WATCHMEN movie CG tech with Zack Snyder (director), Des Jardin (VFX)
  @37: re #3... The parts of 300 with the Queen of Sparta were added, and of course stuck out from the main story, but other than that I agree....
• Commented on Hollywood film about amnesiac H.M. may happen
  You know those movies that you seem to forget everything about right after you leave the theater...?...
• Commented on Bob Harris' photo diary of a trip to the North Korea border
  Just wanted to echo that "Who Hates Whom" is a terrific book and should be required reading for any geopolitically-impaired American (which would be most of us)....
• Commented on Seven reasons not to vote for Barack Obama
  "What did he say?" "He said the President is near!"...
• Commented on Beanworld is Back!
  Hoo-Hoo-HAs & a Hoka-Hoka HEY! Saw Larry at ComicCon in August and was gratified at the number of other folks at his talk who also remembered Beanworld. I may not ever fully understand it, but I think I need to...
• Commented on Princess Leia Nagel-esque poster (Leia + Nagel = Leigel?)
  I prefer something a little more classical: http://adamhughes.deviantart.com/art/Art-Nouveau-Slave-Leia-91409621...
• Commented on A quick and dirty Japanese humor tutorial
  Japan is probably the only place in the world where you could change all the writing and speech to English, drop me in the middle of the capital city, and I'd STILL not have any idea what the heck was...
• Commented on What's worth more, a pound of grass or a pound of peacock feathers? Or a pound of human blood?
  What kind of teaspoon would you have to use for that anyway?...
• Commented on Train nearly runs over idiots (video)
  Whenever I see the phrase "colorful language," I expect something like "Magenta! Ochre! Aquamarine!" Sadly, life continues to disappoint me in a million little ways......
• Commented on How to buy a new car and not get screwed
  My wife recently bought a one-year-old rental Honda, and I was the designated cynic for the transaction. One thing that killed me was how on the sales floor, an ex-rental was described as a good thing because it would have...
• Commented on Man with extra fingers and toes
  Runs in my dad's family. I only had little stubs that were removed at birth, but my brother kept one finger for a year. Too bad, he could have been first in his class to count to 11......
• Commented on People in love with objects
  Don't anthropomorphize objects. They hate that....