The Old Hack

Big talk from the Pharaoh who was perfectly fine with basing his rule on a pyramid scheme.

This is not even mentioning the "someone did something stupid" paperwork. I remember this NATO exercise where a bored soldier discharged a Stinger missile at a hapless cow in a nearby field. His explanation: "He wanted to see what happened." One second of utter idiocy bred HOURS of paperwork. I would have hated to have been that thimblewit's CO.

They are. I was just being an old anal-retentive stick in the mud and deliberately misunderstanding. It says in my contract I have to do it at least twice a week.

The Moderator: Again, please don't.

I am NOT living in a world where Bella Swan gets elected president.

To be fair, there is a lot of paperwork involved in running a ship, let alone a supercarrier.

I could make do with Ciaphas Caine. In fact, I'd rather have him in charge of our government than the current Parliamentary majority.

How many laps would that be around the Pyramid of Cheops?

The Moderator: Locking this due to No Such Comic syndrome.

This is somehow not an improvement. No matter how incompetence rears its ugly head, it never fails to annoy me.

Good. I hate it when some arse in the bureaucracy screws up or tries to screw you over. Because obviously when you are on disability you actually have a ton of cash and want to milk the system. Grrrr.

If the wrong type of people get hold of someone with that spell and can somehow control her, they are so powerful they don't need her to get at the codes. If the wrong type of people get hold of Sarah and only think they can control her, they are in a lot more trouble than they can possibly imagine...

I remember when a friend of mine got that one. She said, "The stretching power of Elasti-Girl from Incredibles, hands down." When asked why, she replied, "Duh. Can you imagine how easy it would be to have children?"

Pfft. What do you know? You are the government. An officer isn't an 'official' but a fighting man, not some pen pusher painting birds and hippos on piles of parchment.

Maybe, but do these government-approved officials have the ability to have fighter jets do aerobatics in celebration of your marriage? I don't think so!

Pffft to either kind. If you need a fancy-schmancy formal acknowledgment of your marriage, just ask the captain of the USS George Washington. If you command a nuclear powered strike carrier, you can darn near unleash the wrath of the Gods anyway.

Meh. We could have seen it easily if we had just bothered. It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right...

While I largely agree with that, I also agree with Scotty that college student Pandora looks quite appealing. Mind you, what I really love about the strip is her line of "Whoops! I already decided for me!" Somehow it just strikes me as hilarious.

Errr... the idea of promising the masses bread and circuses was already found in Rome well before the birth of Christ. And probably in parts of Greece, too. And in many other places if you count such instances as promising a starving people better living if they'll just help you toss the old chieftain out on his ear and put you in his place. Then there's any workplace where there is jostling for position amongst the employees. My own conviction is that as soon as you have three or more people in the same place, politics appear. This is probably an exaggeration but the word itself is based on the greek Polis, or city. Possibly a good definition is that as soon as you have a decent size population that can support a city, politics rear their head. Even kings at times have to placate their people if they get hungry enough, after all. Or that guy who sees a golden opportunity to replace you may appear...

Well, it's easy for you. You don't keep it inside you, you have it conveniently to hand in a jar.

I was indeed being ironic. It is not an uncommon fan event to accuse material older than that they are fans of of ripping off the work of their idol. Also, it is worth remembering that when Sir Terry created the Discworld, he was basing his first book solidly on satire of previous popular work.

Kind of reminds me of when some Rowling fans shredded Sir Terry Pratchett for Unseen University, which he had clearly ripped off from Hogwarts.

Admittedly that is a big and noteworthy difference. Now, if only Parliament could manage that...

So, kinda like the Danish Parliament.

I understand your viewpoint and to a large part I agree with it. I think it is just a little harder for me right now because I am in the middle of it. In a year or so I may feel like that again.