As far as the movie producer episode with Phil Silvers, to this day I cannot hear the opening bars of "Carmen" without singing the Gilligan's Island Hamlet musical's lyrics in my head (I ask to be... Or not to be... Oh, that is the question that I ask of me...).
Eddie - - please do an article like this about The Beverly Hillbillies!

Just another case of Big Funeral trying to keep the little guy down....

I really do not know if this is an "urban legend" or not, but I just wanted to put it out there...
I heard once that one of the driving forces behind the "New Coke" fiasco was Coca-Cola's unspoken fear of the public relations hit they would take if it became generally known that their product was flavored with coca leaf extract. This was at the height of the anti-drug, "just say no" frenzy - partly because of the horrible toll that the crack cocaine epidemic was taking in our cities at the time, and what I heard was that Coke was desperately afraid that they would be perceived (rightly or wrongly) as profiting from the coca trade, and they tried to quietly change to a coca-free formula. Modern retrospective stories paint the whole "New Coke" marketing fiasco as entirely a response to the highly successful "Take the Pepsi Challenge" campaign that was going on at the time, but this theory always seemed to have a certain ring of truth to me.

I had the great fortune to have a professor in college who was targeted by McCarthy and who actually was called to testify before the HUAC. She was one of the few who refused to "name names" and her promising career was destroyed as a result. To honestly beleive that McCarthy and his willing partners in this movement (including a young Richard Nixon, by the way) were anything but evil, power-hungry, bullying, thugs is to ignore the reality of what actually went on. Even worse, in my opinion, was the shameful complicity of many government agencies (see the F.B.I. above) and the press in general. The story of McCarthyism is a true cautionary tale of how, even in a modern democracy, tactics like "the big lie" and straw man witch hunts can still be used to pervert justice if not enough people have the guts to stand up and question what is wrong. He was an evil man who destroyed the lives of countless innocent people in a selfish quest for power and notoriety. To compare McCarthy, who relied almost entirely on lies and false innuendo, to Assange or Ellesburg who, right or wrong, tried to make the truth more available, is an extreme case of apples and oranges and is just silly....

Some kind of specialized die for cutting threads on something.

Schrodinger's cat wanted shirt - black - XL

I just love that they they have little nano-jazz-hands...

I totally agree with Chuck - - one flaw in that glass, or maybe an earthquake that cracks it (or, in my neighborhood, a stray bullet) and you would be part of a temporary 100 foot waterfall with a tragic ending at the bottom. I would NEVER get into one of those....

I always watched and enjoyed M*A*S*H in spite of my father who refused to watch a show that in his words "showed how fun and hilarious it is to be in a war" (see Hogan's Heroes). I have often been struck by how much the show changed in tone through the years - - at first very politically incorrect and irreverent (like the movie), with the doctor's native Korean house slave Ho-jan, and the lone African-American character nick-named "Spearchucker", then later very preachy and "message" oriented. One example of this i found funny was a narrative in a later episode where the camp was horrified that Colonel Blake might be considering cheating on his loving wife back in the states, when in the first season (just as in the movie) he had a cute young nurse/mistress that basically lived in his tent with him...

I see an immediate problem with this research - - the nail shown in the picture is clearly not a "dead doornail". The term "dead as a doornail" derives from the way doors were made in the old days. The flat boards on the outside face of the door were nailed to a rectangular frame of boards with a diagonal crosspiece, using long nails that would protrude through the frame boards. The protruding ends of the nails were then bent over and hammered flat so that they wouldn't pull out or loosen from the repeated stress of opening and closing. As a result of being bent over and hammered flat, these nails were permanently damaged and could not be straightened out and re-used, and were therefore considered "dead". The nail in the picture is a new, unused nail and is very obviously still alive.

... Pretty good too.
(don't know why it cut off the end of that sentence)

I would have to go with either Sam Kinison or the stuttering lawyer from "My Cousin Vinny"....
Actually Foghorn Leghorn would have been pretty

Is it just me or does that portrait of Paul Revere bear a striking resemblance to Jack Black?

*plus*
Was 1.5 million dollars "plus" - - not 1.5 million dollars worth of pus......

Any mention of George Harrison and the song "My Sweet Lord" should also note the $1.5 million pus settlement for "subconcious plagiarism" of the tune from the Chiffon's "He's So Fine". Interestingly. George's agent at the time the lawsuit was filed ended up splitting with George and actually ended up purchasing the company that owned the rights to "He's So Fine" (after going behind George's back and secretly supplying them with information about the earnings from "My Sweet Lord") all apparently in an effort to screw George out of as much money as possible. Ended up being one of the longest copyright infringement cases in history (was in court for 20+ years) and had a lot of interesting issues.

The problem I see with any study that purports to be looking at "psychopaths" is that the diagnosis is very subjective (and as I understand it is usually based on a now mostly discounted "checklist" developed by a psychologist in the 50's or 60's) and is really not very well-defined. I read a lenthy article about it once that had a long section about a long-term inmate at an institution whose doctors explained his continued confinemant by pointing out that he was obviously psychopathic because he was so good at acting normal.