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• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  That's wrong-headed. But also wrong-headed is a local librarian that insists on filing all graphic novels in the "YA (young adult)" section. I keep trying to suggest that maybe "From Hell" would be better shelved elsewhere. Plus, I get weird...
• Commented on Klingon as a First Language
  @Omir -- well, possibly. But I first heard it as "An Englishman!" I figured "native English-speaker" probably covered both countries, and cast aspersions on the Aussies, as well....
• Commented on Klingon as a First Language
  There's an old joke: Q: What do you call a person who speaks three languages? A: Tri-lingual. Q: What do you call a person who speaks two languages? A: Bi-lingual. Q: What do you call a person who speaks one...
• Commented on Klingon as a First Language
  Obviously this is a case of child abuse. BECAUSE WE ARE ALL DOMAIN EXPERTS, and thus qualified to render judgment. Plus, we checked any sense of humor or inquiry at the door. --------- Isn't this how Berlitz was raised --...
• Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
  found not found, space not space. in or out? instinct. not found and not lost, not ever lost not nearly not ever not never nor nearly so. a found space, a lost space, a misplaced space construct with n-dimensional fractal...
• Commented on World's most awesome cheap Chinese toy
  A spiral record doesn't have to skip, if the needle is held in the groove by a spring -- remember the old See-n-Says (before they got chipped) ? You can spin those like a top while they're playing, and they...
• Commented on Three-armed baby costume
  This year for halloween I dressed up as somebody who didn't dress up for halloween. Oh, the complaints I got that I was mocking people who didn't dress up for halloween. :::sigh::: Of course, they were right....
• Commented on Norman Rockwell, "King of Photoshop"
  a retronym is "A new word or phrase coined for an old object or concept whose original name has become used for something else". So, "retronymical" would be the adjectified (?) form? Or has it also been adverbed? Crap. And...
• Commented on Careless forklift driver brings down the warehouse - video
  'cause the BB is more of a jack-hammer place, if you know what I mean* *and I hope you do, because I sure don't.......
• Commented on Norman Rockwell, "King of Photoshop"
  How retronymical....
• Commented on The blog of Philip Garrido, serial rapist and kidnapper: "sound control" gadget hallucinations.
  So I'm at work on friday, learning how the fiche machines work, and the fiche operator says "hey, I just found out that an old neighbor from California got arrested for kidnapping a girl and keeping her in his backyard....
• Commented on Bees in my light fixture
  all they wanted was to discover television and look what happened...
• Commented on 2009 Gathering Of The Juggalos Infomercial
  Still, the video is pretty d**n scary -- all those follower-bands that have clown-paint? But then I heard about the wet-t-shirt contest, bouncy boxing, karaoke, and REAL midway games. dude!...
• Commented on 2009 Gathering Of The Juggalos Infomercial
  @84 "Crocheting a Mario themed afghan is quirky, indvidual and creative." Uh, no. Working with a Nintendo characters is not a foray into obscurantism, nor are ironic pomo juxtapositions edgy and new. This IS the grandparents forum....
• Commented on Love in 2D
  I'm finding a hard time (no pun intended) believing that bust belongs to a 10- or 12-year old....
• Commented on Great Ad, seen in Popular Science October 1976
  That sounds a lot better than the upcoming adaptation of ViewMaster....
• Commented on Infernocrusher fiction: dinos, guns and motocross
  Rocking dinosaurs on motorcycles? It's like "Easy Jurassic Rider" -- what's not to like!...
• Commented on Bordertown/Borderlands fantasy series to get another volume
  both of these books seem to have gone missing from my collection -- aaaargh! loved the cover-art, too. sheesh - never knew there were more than just these two. NICE!...
• Commented on Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí's Destino film
  Surrealism never died: Destino was released theatrically in a very limited release with the film Calendar Girls as well as Triplets of Belleville. As of 2008, Disney has confirmed releasing the short with "their next feature release as a short"...
• Commented on Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
  @13 -- yeah, but at least his character made sense in Star Trek. And was there for more than one scene, instead of a lets-put-deep-roy-into-this-scene-driveby And lets be honest, Michael Bay didn't say "let's get Deep Roy" for this scene...
• Commented on Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
  only all the munchkins will be played by Deep Roy. now, WTF was he doing in Transformers ROTFL, anyway?...
• Commented on Bloody tongue from Tootsie Pop
  Always close to happening everytime I have one. Sharp sugar edges abound.......
• Commented on Geek Mafia 3: Black Hat Blues; a heist novel for hackers
  my g33k dysl3x14 kicked in, and I first read the description as "every bit as good as the two previous, rickrolling volumes". Which sounds pretty interesting, if improbably in print: "So, you see," she whispered, taking off her blouse, "once...
• Commented on Visit to a smouldering coal-fire ghost-town
  I first heard about Centralia in the mid-80s from.... Ripley's Believe It or Not TV show? something on TV, at any rate. Sounded interesting. Now, I live in Northeastern PA, and have visited Centralia two or three times. It's less...
• Commented on Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, sentenced to jail
  @51 "I don't care what you feel about how people use The Pirate Bay, the point is that they merely index what people put out there. I see very little difference between them and Google, and the fact that the...
• Commented on Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, sentenced to jail
  some good discussion also over at hacker news....
• Commented on Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, sentenced to jail
  Oh, hell -- we all know they're as guilty as sin. And their antics in the courtroom didn't endear them to the legal system at all. Smartassery isn't the best PR when dealing with suits. That being said, I am...
• Commented on Shepard Fairey's Comment on Recent Updates in the AP Legal Conflict
  >not corporations who appropriate other people's work for profit.. hrm, that sounds like both sides in this conflict....
• Commented on Cold dead hand of Frank Herbert reaches up from grave, stabs Dune Second Life megafans in the back
  Is this really the "cold dead hand of Frank Herbert" or the "cold live hand of Kevin J Anderson" and the many "prequels" that are so ghastly to read? OTOH, it has been so many years said I read an...
• Commented on Cat Shit One, the animated trailer
  I think the mention of Rule 34 was Maus-by-misdirection. And there's also Jason's time-travel book....