Another accent we don't have: pirates. Pirates just speak like everyone else in France. Fun fact: the "pirate accent" is really just an exaggerated accent of the West Country of England. One of the most influential early pirate movies was the 1950 Disney production of Treasure Island . In...

Er, putting more and more animals on it seems unrelated. Those other animals aren't a common derogatory term for police, after all.... Not gonna lie, I did go to a Mormon high school dance with my cousin once, and it really was just three hours of people holding each other really awkwardly and kind ...

Concerning Dwarves, Tolkienic lore puts them with a Scandinavian background. It has only been recently (i.e. WoW) that they have begun to gain a Scottish influence. A bit older than WoW, certainly. There are a few possibilities in this thread . Kathleen: If you like the hair color, keep it. I'm mil...

By the way, Tim's horrid pun at the end of the podcast made me lol hard. Same here. (Not to mention his oeuvre pun halfway through...) Did anyone find that AT&T thing Graham was talking about or did he scare everyone off with his tales of its terribleness? http://www.attlostinamerica.com/ I cou...

Heh, just after I get done typing my own version... You either herpderp get GWOPed or get banned QWOPped? Busses slow down (?) on the desert of strife Yeah, I didn't hear that bit clearly. "Busser so ???", maybe. Cuttin’ up the mid range and dropin down the bass What does Ian say in the ba...

Punching dragons.

Hey, what did dragons ever do to you? :(

I didn't notice the lack of poppies, but I'm not from a Commonwealth country. Are they typically worn only on Remembrance Day in Canada, or for a few days around it?

I was going to complain that Paul didn't continue wearing the dinosaur hat, but then I remembered that he's already a dinosaur....

DRAGON BURGERS?!

I'd like to have some words with you...
(right after I get this plastic ring off...)

Graham wrote:Also, there's dragons.

Still no word on that dragon amnesty, huh?

(Sorry, I might have a vested interest)

If anyone cares about the riddle, I wanted to test the crews physics knowledge. Basically, when you move really fast, time works differently. If a vessel moves at 10 percent of the speed of light, 99 seconds to you is 100 seconds to anyone not in the vessel. At 50 percent of the speed of light, thr...

This is ludicrous! It's not accurate at all! There was never a steep decline in the dragon population, and certainly it wouldn't have had anything to do with plastic six-pack rings. (Even a hatchling's snout is too large to fit inside one, and a dragon could easily slice it open with a claw anyway.....

While we might complain about the level of corruption in our governments, it's by and large much more in the developing world. Some places are trying to improve, but Kathleen seems to act surprised that there's so much corruption in other places. (Yes, I know it's intended as a joke, but the joke di...

Hmmm. The "indifferent angel" discussion seems related to "Fiscal Responsibility"....

Ice the bitch.

Especially given that it's Alex, perhaps clubbing him would be more appropriate....

I too enjoyed the plug for/poke at Mario Marathon.

Also,

Everything is better with a dragon

Yeah, pretty much. What news on the dragon amnesty from last week? ;)

I noticed a couple typos in the bottom thingy-of-which-the-proper-name-escapes-me Overlay? And yeah, I noticed it too.... I'll admit that "Dagron" is my dragon misspelling of choice, but yeah that's intentional. Other typos: "Mwtal" (1:30) (presumably "Metal") "Dr...

Will there be more Crapshots, or are you too busy with your other series?

What about Things on Paul's Head?

In other news, I always tell myself that I'm gonna do something else while I watch/listen to the LRRcast and then I just stare at the computer. Thanks for taking away my productivity! I do something similar. Now that the podcast has a video with people putting amusing things on the overlay, I find ...

For those who haven't seen what happened during the Kitty accusation game during Desert Bus:
original Crapshot (for reference): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVZZ7wYjdwQ
Alex tries to guess: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzqTGVSwc0k

Yeah, sorry reptile. It's only because we're a year behind that we need to skip some that we've answered before. That's fair; I hadn't listened to the LRRCast (or read the Ask LRR thread) that far back. Thanks for responding! To sum up all their phobias, a colbra with a hand grenade. No I am not ma...

How do you guys decide which Ask LRR questions to answer and which to skip? I ask because you skipped my question this time. If you've already answered it before, that's fine--it's not anything particularly important, I'm just curious if that was the reason it was ignored (and, admittedly, was vague...

Matt (and others), the philosophical puzzle you're thinking of has a number of names; the most common is probably the Ship of Theseus. (Also interesting is Hobbes's extension to the paradox, mentioned under the "Greek Legend" section.)

I for one, am disappoint. Not cause the video or anything, but the fact it looked like you were playing a regular card game, and not Viking Secret Wildcard Poker. They are, in fact. The first two words of the video are: -"Twist." -"Flip." (Matt also mentioned this in the news po...

Favorite part:

"International fundraising superstar Rosco P. Jangles IV apologizes for this shameless fanservice"

(at 3:10)

I was sort of expecting a Babylon 5 reference. I seem to remember you guys doing one in a previous Unskippable, and given that Bruce Boxleitner was doing the voiceover for the Tron trailer, it seemed to be a natural opportunity.