"Next I'm going to ram my ovipositor down your throat and lay my eggs in your chest! But I'm not an alien!"
Tom Servo, as Exeter, MST3K: This Island Earth

My grandmother used to dry her hair in one of those things.

Aware's comment was funnier than mine.

William Shatner did an entire movie in Esperanto (Incubus) and Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat novels have the lingua franca as Esperanto. Also, the signage on the Red Dwarf is bilingual in English and Esperanto.

I remember hearing about this kid of thing being used as a treatment for eczema and psoriasis

I like the song too.

Vulcan orbits 40 Eridani A which, on this map, is visible on the highest zoom setting.

First Lucas marches with the Stormtroopers in the Rose Bowl parade, now he buys a "Darth Vader Car." Could it be possible that George Lucas is developing a sense of humor? Can a special edition DVD release of the Star Wars Holiday Special be far behind?

A good place to make "OK Go Meets the Phantom of the Park"

I was just astonished to learn that AltaVista is still around.

No Flubber?

Hey, awesome! Do I win a T-shirt or just bragging rights? You know these are easy when I get them because I usually just guess, "It's a bong!"

By the way, that thing you use to scrape mud off your boots is commonly called a "mud butler." I learned that from watching the Mystery Science Theater version of Ed Wood's "The Violent Years" last night, so it must be true.

It's neat, but stylistically its a ripoff of 10 Tons and Reflexive's "Crimsonland" which is a great little shooter.

It's a shooting gallery duck

So he's kind of comparing apples to oranges isn't he? He's using an extremely loose interpretation of the budget deficit (using things that aren't normally included in the deficit) and an extremely strict interpretation of the GDP. Shouldn't he be noting that the US household net worth was over 50 trillion last year? Sure, that's not normally included in the GDP but if we're going to be fudging numbers why not go whole hog?

I wonder where the 50 trillion number came from. Even the most pessimistic sources (http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/) have it pegged as only 8 trillion (that's on an almost 13 trillion GDP).

Taken in historical context, the US national debt after WWII was 150% of GDP and Britain's national debt after the Napoleonic Wars was 250% of their GDP, yet both post-war periods were times of unprecedented prosperity.

I think the Union will survive.

Jerry's was JOR-EL