Darth Fluffy

Yes, but 'Squirrels are omnivores' rates zero as a pun.

I can't, saying what squirrels eat is just nuts!

My life.

Giant Space Muppet's map is kind of sparse on details. (S)he know a bit of detail about EGS-world earth life, though, if Moperville University struck him/her as significant. Also, just being from 'space' and knowing earth locations. Hmm. Is it significant that Dan introduced Giant Space Muppet Turtle rather than just send a Uryuom to do the job? Does it really boil down to 'They don't sense magic'? I'm sure there's a relatively easy way to hand wave that. Or have an Immortal point it out, or the griffins discover it, or Tedd's gizmos point it out. It seems somewhat likely that the GiSpaMuTu has a secondary role. or we wouldn't have one. Seems to beg for a back story in any case.

It looks weird, but interesting. Others are Amelie, Leon, The Professional, (Jean Reno is an all around good actor; he was the other agent that De Nero befriended in Ronin (which is not a French film, although it takes place in France with some French spoken)), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and La Femme Nikita, which I have never seen, but is said to be very good, and has been a basis for other works. One observation, in a similar vein to 'They find Jerry Lewis funny ??!?', all of these movies flow along for the most part and make sense, then every now and then go off in a weird direction for a moment or sometimes longer. I am left with the impression that 'these people think differently than we do'. To be entirely fair, I take it as a given that could be said of the US when viewed from the outside.

Yes, as far as we've seen the fairy dolls do not seem to even attempt to walk far. If this were at all realistic, you'd think they would have to eat about as much as a squirrel to function.

What's Up Tiger Lily? would be more like taking a cutting torch to your Mazda, welding the parts back together randomly, applying Bondo to the gaps, then spraying it with Krylon - not all the same color. Not really a fair comparison, and highly recommended.

They were able to sit, so the legs bend, so they should be able to walk. I'm going to guess that they do some minor walking when they pick stuff out for retrieval, like when one went to Susan's pack. The legs were in a stance, not a stiff stand. There is some implication that they stiffen like a Barbie when they are not animated. Whenever they've been portrayed as dolls, just as dolls, they've been in the same stiff position.

We have a commercial recycle center which pays for metal. It is not close to me, but is near one of my kids. You can get about $50.00 for a trash bag full of crushed beer cans. Worth a trip if you have a lot of scrap, and they take steel. We also have recycle sheds at our dumps. If you think something is good enough, you leave it in the shed and someone might grab it to use. Too low volume to really make a dent, but a nice token effort. Best Buy used to take scrap electronics to strip the gold and silver, but they've cut back.

I've never heard the term 'milli-inch' but I believe micrometers were calibrated in 1000ths of an inch. I took civil technology in high school in the late 1960s, like civil engineering lite, and we learned archaic terms like Kips, which was something like 1000s of lb. I can convert distance in my head easy enough, but would need a scratch pad to do cubic inch displacement to metric or PSI to metric.

I've heard that expression before, but it is very quotable. I think it was relevant in the late 1800s through the earlier half of the 20th Century. Anymore, it's archaic.

I got the babblefish, I had all kinds of trouble dealing with the Tea and No Tea

I believe I have, with subtitles, but I can't recall a title.

Also, wear your panic resistant (opaque) glasses. The HHGttG text adventure from Infocom included a pair.

Great, just what we need, yet another thing pulling North America apart ...

Who's a good kitty?

I never heard of it before. I imagine there are plenty of obscure ones in the past. Rankine is like Kelvin, zero is absolute zero, but denominated in Fahrenheit degrees. The Wiki Delise scale article list three others I never heard of, Newton, Romer with a slash through the o, and Reaumur with an accent on the e.

I would guess that you have and didn't know it was French. They produce a lot of movies.

This raises the question, if Jay copied Nanase's fairy doll spell, but did not see the floating/flying to copy it, would Jay's fairy be able to fly?

Insect wings are weird. All the stuff about cross section, laminar flow, and differential pressure does not seem to be present. They appear to be essentially flat surfaces. The small ones probably act like hummingbird wings, just propelling the air via their slant, but that does not explain large moths, butterflies, nor dragonflies (ancient ones reaching a foot long). For Nanase's fairy doll, they probably do not provide enough lift, but I'd guess that they do serve to direct where she is going. Full size Nanase, way more problematic. The wings should either not be stiff enough to maintain their shape, or would have to be as thick as plywood. (Actually, in the image they look more balloon like than flat.)

I left sometime after 10:00. The public fireworks had ended, but the neighborhood was still going. We heard ambulances a couple of times. I suppose drinking was involved. Drunks and fireworks, always a great pairing.

I want to say human eyes don't do that, but I guess that's the point. First real indication of possible dragon anything. Need to see Ashley doing it. Her hair and the fabric on her shoulders have a startle response. Larry being helpful is scripted well, but does it fit what we've seen of him up to now? He's had character growth; enough to move beyond self centered? I guess take it at face value, enjoy the story.

I was thinking, if you panic before you find the rift, you wouldn't have found it to fall through it in the first place. Although, the trees are interesting.

I saw one last night in Raleigh, poking at the back door to the house next door to where I was. Fear of humans did not seem to be a large part of the equation. I don't know for if he was regular, but he was well fed and was not walking as if he was constipated, so I'd guess that he was. Actually, I don't know if he was a he.

So panic early, panic often, and avoid trouble, right?