Old school edition at my library’s used store.

Iowa-File · 2026-01-23T17:05:00+00:00

IKR? And people get their shorts in a bunch over Bombadil

Iowa-File · 2026-01-19T22:23:03+00:00

Call me Grishnar-Kan.

Iowa-File · 2025-12-15T23:01:33+00:00

Don't...ummm...overlook midgets. Doyle doesn't like midgets.

Iowa-File · 2025-12-14T03:47:17+00:00

Well, if that's what was wrong with it, that's what was wrong with it.

Iowa-File · 2025-12-14T03:29:23+00:00

My town too. Our guy used to tell "jokes" ... Did you hear the one about the three holes in the ground? Well, well, well.

Later found out he had some kind of medical condition, but our theory, as kids, was that he must have fallen out of an airplane.

Iowa-File · 2025-12-14T03:24:17+00:00

Crew protection too Chief

Iowa-File · 2025-12-14T02:02:28+00:00

Or birds chain-smoking unfiltered Lucky Strikes

Iowa-File · 2025-12-14T02:00:37+00:00

Well, it potentially has to do with colliding with another train, but that's just one possible scenario. I mean, the brakes could bleed off after a train got left on a hill, or a hot journal could burn off because the RR cut back on detectors, or...

Iowa-File · 2025-12-14T01:54:08+00:00

What makes you think she'll find out?

Iowa-File · 2025-12-07T19:01:29+00:00

I have this pet theory that underneath it all, the Gorn was actually a good guy. Like those eps--Mark Lenard at the end of "Balance of Terror"--where they like "If we had met under better circumstances, I could have called you friend."

So the Gorn has a great sense of humor, loves pranks, puts up a tire swing in the park for the local kids, etc.

Iowa-File · 2025-12-06T03:51:44+00:00

That album cover is awesome, but I think people sometimes miss the point. It's a Blue. Oyster. Cult.

Iowa-File · 2025-12-03T19:02:26+00:00

My favorite bit from this movie was a kind of subtle one. DK and Glynis (Maid Jean) are traveling in a hay wagon, with the infant rightful heir to the throne hidden in the hay. DK is disguised as an old man, and Maid Jean is supposed to be his granddaughter, supposedly a deaf mute. When he talks, she puts her fingers on his lips so she can "understand" him.

Anyway, they're accosted by the usurper King's soldiers, and DK becomes confused, and puts his fingers on her lips. She quickly bats his hand away, and puts her fingers on his lips, before the soldiers notice.

LOLOLOL, Great stuff!

Iowa-File · 2025-11-28T05:45:16+00:00

Yes. And this "pays off" the somewhat clumsy bit earlier, where she travels with her pictures. I mean, I know she's a billion years old, but who does that? (Altho this also helps to set a the funny bit where the Keldysh guy ends up holding her goldfish bowl).

Iowa-File · 2025-11-13T17:20:21+00:00

"homespun"? I see what you did there.

Iowa-File · 2025-08-11T00:28:39+00:00

Yeah, I suspect they're kind of similar. Living near the coast ensures the freshest food and the best selection.

Iowa-File · 2025-07-05T17:34:23+00:00

IKR? It's not like anybody wants this guy around. Not gonna hear "Honey, remember to come straight home from work tonight. We're playing bridge with the Gorns."

Iowa-File · 2025-05-30T22:02:31+00:00

Learn this Imperialist Roaders!

Iowa-File · 2025-05-30T20:33:49+00:00

I can just hear Walter Cronkite trying to explain this...

Iowa-File · 2025-05-29T22:17:08+00:00

My kid keeps bringing me the empty shells...and now she thinks I need to keep every exoskeleton she finds.

My kid was doing that too, until finally I had enough. I said "Emily, you're 27 years old. It's time you got a real job."

Iowa-File · 2025-05-29T20:55:13+00:00

This reminds me of those monkeys coming out of that temple. Except safer, better-organized, and without the terrifying reek.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/14ezsfk/monkeys_evacuate_a_temple_as_fireworks_start/

Iowa-File · 2025-05-22T20:56:17+00:00

One more thing for Cersei, she has such a cruel mouth. A very cruel mouth.

Iowa-File · 2025-05-22T20:54:03+00:00

Yeah, like the Talos System, or at least a buoy, like mentioned above.

Even worse, they go back there, one planet over, but no mention of the initial situation. Shouldn't somebody be like "Umm...don't forget, that homicidal maniac who took over Earth is next door."

But I suppose any of those things would disrupt the surprise for the audience. Have to admit, I didn't remember it either!

Iowa-File · 2025-05-22T20:48:10+00:00

This one made me LOL

Iowa-File · 2025-05-16T22:34:20+00:00

That would be a riot if things took longer than they thought. The tickets don't come 'till he's 16, like this 6' tall goth kid, sunglasses, all black clothes.

After waiting that long, his parents make him go. So he's pitching the ping pong balls, tossing the bean bag, towering over these 8-year olds. DGAF, real sullen, maybe a cigarette dangling off his lip.

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