Thanks to the good folks at Comedy Central's jokes.com for having this list I saw a long time ago. Rules of the Movie Universe -It is always possible to park directly outside any building you are visiting. -A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty. -If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps. -Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alie...

Thanks to the good folks at Comedy Central's jokes.com for having this list I saw a long time ago. Rules of the Movie Universe -It is always possible to park directly outside any building you are visiting. -A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty. -If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps. -Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alie...

I was just watching the first season of Alias on DVD, and a few things struck me. In the beginning, the show was a lot more tightly plotted, and it felt a lot more taut... maybe it was because it was all new, and it hadn't hit its stride and found almost all the convenient buttons to push.... or maybe its because the stories were swinging closer to James Bond than All My Children at the time. There were cliffhangers, which are sorely lacking in some of the later episodes(and outside of mo...

It took me 4 weeks ot false starts to take on the Sunday New York TImes Crossword, I finally conquered one last night. It BEAT it! WOOT! *plays the Rocky Music and leaps in jubilation* Thank you Florida Key, Mr, Will Shortz and Elizabeth C. Gorski! Who would have thought that knowing Olestra, Basalt, Lilith, and Knossos would pay off. Now, let's see if I can make it two weeks in a row.

Mignuna told us all to go to Hell , I decided to see WHERE in Hell I'd be going, so I decided to look for an old quiz I had done a few years ago using Dante's Inferno as a guide. Now, I told you all that I was mean and spiteful and all that, and no one believed me. Of course, the Quiz got to the bottom of that, and got to the bottom of it well. Where I am going to end up: Level 5- The river Styx runs through this level of Hell, and in it are punished the wrathful and the gloom...

Well, this sounds like a familiar story... a teacher with some Muslim students tells her students that they can replace "Jesus" in a Christmas song with "virtue," and everyone gets in a tizzy. Sounds like something that could be happening anyway in Anglo-North America, doesn't it. But there is a fine twist to this one. It's happening in Italy ... one of the great centers of the Catholic world. And the Pope is not amused. Neither is the Mayor of the town where this happened or the brother ...

This Sunday comedian Patton Oswalt(best known as Spence on "The King of Queens") has a special on Comedy Central, and I was watching a preview of it, and he just totally ripped into reality shows, and I have to tell you, it's classic. Someone needed to say it, and I am sort of glad it was him. Check it out!

At about 12:30EST, 4 bombs went off at 4 Madrid gas stations... perhaps signalling a new round of terrorist activities in Spain by the ETA. Of course, these bombings follow two weeks of raids against the group's holdings in France during October which netted: 652 kilograms (1,434 pounds) of dynamite 148 grenades 32 grenade launchers 277 guns -- including assault rifles and Uzi-type machine guns thousands of rounds of ammunition and nearly $90,000 in cash. This is in addition to 2...

These are heady days indeed. A South Korean woman, who was paralyzed and bed-ridden for 20 years, was given a new lease on life and mobility through the use of Stem Cell therapy. After receiving an injection of stem cell into her spine, she was able to walk with the help of a walking frame(I assume there was a lot of physiotherapy between the treatment and the presentation in which she walked), which seemed to be the kind of results the late Christopher Reeve was looking for. However,...

When I first heard that they were going to be redoing Gilligan's Island as a reality show, at first I thought it sounded like a cool idea... but then I started having second thoughts... I mean, it could turn into something like Temptation Island or be a stale rip-off of Survivor, where the people wouldn't be likeable and it would just feel like something that Fox would turn out to fill its summer schedule.... and anyone who has watched summer tv knows exactly what I am talking about. But I...

I've enjoyed Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles for good long while now, and I started thinking about some of the outrageous things Neil Swaab has talked about through his comics, and I remembered a few of his good shots at bloggers in the past year(amongst other people), and I just had to bring them to everyone's attention. So here is Burn 1 and Burn 2 of the blogging community in the ever-caustic style of "Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles". Of course, the irony is, he has a site set up at l...

I've enjoyed Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles for good long while now, and I started thinking about some of the outrageous things Neil Swaab has talked about through his comics, and I remembered a few of his good shots at bloggers in the past year(amongst other people), and I just had to bring them to everyone's attention. So here is Burn 1 and Burn 2 of the blogging community in the ever-caustic style of "Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles". Of course, the irony is, he has a site set up at l...

I knew I have occasionally been a snob in the past... it was something I was more than willing to admit to, and I accepted blame for.... and then someone sent me this quiz... what kind of elitist are you..... and well, I took it and I regret it now... because now I have to deal with those tendencies all over again. Anyway, here's how it turned out for me. You speak eloquently and have seemingly read every book ever published. You are a fountain of endless (sometimes useless) knowledge, ...