I'm just this side of broke. Catching a play sounds interesting, but probably too expensive.

A deli might be interesting. I'm told there's a relatively cheap but quality restaurant within Macy's, wherein I will probably be dragooned into 'shopping' for too long.

Or there's a massive, pro-LRR conspiracy.

Tomorrow I begin the long bus ride to New York City to see my littlest brother sing at Carnegie Hall. It will be approximately 24 hours before I can escape the great monstrous steel and concrete midden that is New York. So... what should I do while I'm waiting for the concert? Suggestions appreciate...

Schadenfreunde is taking joy in other people's suffering. Those people aren't suffering. No matter how tacky or painfully cornpone you find their lives, they're coping quite well in them, and so there are no opportunities for you to experience schadenfreunde. Now, taking joy in your own sense of sup...

You haven't bathed. I thought we'd spoken to you about that before.

Spammer wrote:hitchhiking fused Normanization chamber?identify!florid …

That is totally awesome.

If it's really good, we would actually do it, and then you'd get to see it. I hate you now, Paul. I hope you choke on your beard. While... ballroom dancing. [PiousFlea]: "Do your worst, Paul! I am immune to the slings and arrows of your cruelty!" [Paul]: "But what if I hurt your feel...

Who wants to explain what a merkin is?

I don't have the strength.

Ironically, Ben's problem is the one easiest to deal with. There are a number of desensitization techniques for fear. Compulsive stealing, drinking, and raging are much nastier. How in the world did he become frightened of stuffed animals, anyway? Childhood psychological experiment went awry? A stuf...

It's actually the other way 'round.

There are a lot of atypical males here too.

By which I mean 'boot fetishists'.

tak197 wrote:Graham, you know for a fact that Paul was not always sans beard, as you told us yourself that we should look at the Making of Featurette for After Hours!

That was faked for the cameras.

I neither know nor care whether this was real. However:

Justin wrote:Once you've been inside one of those ships for a while... you're never quite the same again. But you do what you're told!

Citin wrote:I'm gonna say this movie sucked just to because no one's been a dick yet

But then you posted, so now everything is fine.

It is SO disturbing that the alcoholic was the most in-control one of them all.

Loved the music - it added an energy and mood to the story that's difficult to produce otherwise.

Make a persons eyes proportionate? That's one of the conventions, Tensen. The size of a character's eyes is directly related to how emotionally sympathetic you're supposed to find them. It's a convention. Like having little birds fly around the head of a stunned cartoon character. Or the coyote alw...

Japanese animation artists have a different set of visual conventions to indicate certain things. You can dislike those conventions, and thus dislike any animation with them, without having to actually seen all of them. I will note that not all anime actually follows those conventions. Some anime is...

Bah. Go for the nutmeg.

[Invader Zim]: "So, the Megadoomer is invisible?"

[Dib]: "Yeah."

[Zim]: "But you can see me?"

[Dib]: "Uh-huh."

[Zim]: "Ohhhh! That's... stupid!"

Ledger was taking a half-dozen powerful prescription medicines conned from a handful of different doctors.

He died of the same thing Renfro died of: terminal stupidity.

"Is 'having sex with dead horses' a euphemism for something?"

"... Yes, it's a euphemism. For having sex. With dead horses."

That... was... awesome. Excellent work, everyone.

Did the Con really have a porn room?

If it uses 'like' or 'as', it's a simile. If it's a direct, unmediated comparison, it's a metaphor.

The simile charged across the screen like a rampaging buffalo, but the metaphor was a gentle zephyr wafting across the plains.

I'm still waiting for the PSU Whack-a-thon, in which the Greeks hit themselves in the heads with giant mallets for four days straight.