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Veep is still missing verbally abusive Scotsmen.

Well, in real life this reaction makes perfect sense. Image your love was recently killed, are angry at the world, god etc., are answering the questions of the police hoping that this will help them catch the killer and realize by the way they are asking that they are suspecting you.

Agreed, Night Watch is my favorite as well, followed by The Truth. After that it gets much harder to pick favorites because all the middle Watch books, Small Gods and Thief of Time are all great as well. The Rincewind books or more specifially the first two books are so obviously a fantasy Hitchhiker's Guide version and it was basically impossible to use Rincewind as a main character for the more serious style Pratchett went for later on. Witches books were hit and miss, I did for example like Wyrd Sisters really much while I think that Witches Abroad and Carpe Jugulum are among the worst Discworld books.

The whole Perro Aguayo Jr. tragedy made me think about Naohiro Hoshikawa. Does anyone here know if he ever showed improvement? I think to remember there was even talk of brain damage back then, though I don't think I have heard news about him in 10 years.

Honestly the books that came after "Going Postal" did not compare to his best work (like Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment, The Truth, Thief of Time or Small Gods).

At the very beginning of the episode when they began with flashbacks it was obvious that Though I thought

Fun casting to have Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell playing a pair of bad guys with Miller working a long elaborate plan and Purcell being a hothead.

(...) The UFC has given lots of free advertising time to sponsors not directly linked to them, and it was of their own volition. Isn't the rule that sponsor have to pay 50k or 100k or something like that to Zuffa to be eligible for visible fighter sponsoring?

Someone should teach JDS the Greek alphabet, then he would know that what he thinks reads "CIGANO" actually reads "<letter does not exist>F<letter does not exist>LPT"

A flying elbowdrop would be an automatique DQ: (a) it's a 12 to 6 elbow and (b) how do you get up on the octagon cage without grabbing the fence?

Either a a biological anomaly or a zoo as bears are "overwhelmingly solitary and are considered to be the most asocial of all the Carnivora" (quote Wikipedia).

Are there any (serious) reviews around for the last gen consoles? I just checked Metacritic and there is no "critics" review for the PS3 version listed yet, just a couple of user reviews (that all in unison gave horrible scoring due to game breaking bugs).

and Indiana Jones wannabes

I just remember that Browning had this really bizarre pre-fight promo for the fight to get into the house.

As pilots go this was probably as good as it gets. I only fear that what they are going for won't really work on 15-16 episode seasons.

How much are Bungie and Activision actually getting from the $500M sales? How big is the media budget?

Is that the "Evita" one? Cause that was outstanding. The Evita episode is so old that even I know it (season 15, after looking it up), so I guess he is talking about something else.

Austrian television will show one movie in memoriam of her and somehow the movie they chose is Murder on the Orient Express. Of course they could have done worse, at least they chose a very good movie, if not a very important role for Bacall. For Robin Williams they chose Hook...

That was a red card foul if there ever was one.

I am betting that Kramer has got a concussion.

Does Brazil have the death penalty? If so a group execution is coming up.

Funny how easy Beckerman was falling. He probably thought he was running into a defender and took a dive. Don't get me wrong: the ref was out of position, but Beckerman could have kept standing if he wanted.

(...) If that was a red, the World Cup should have had about 20 to 25 sent offs more than it had so far. Pretty normal one on one, no evil intentions, Marchisio attempts to shield the ball, kicks the oppopent in the shin...no way was that a red. There were probably at least 10 fouls in this game alone that deserved a red card more than this. Apart from Suarez and Balotelli the tackle that injured Verratti springs to mind for example.

exactly what I was thinking a few minutes ago

I hope that Germany and the USA go full-out Gijon, just to see the media backlash.