You don't have to be sorry, Barking Bud. We covered Beauty here as well.

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/beauty-and-the-beak/

I took my turkey out of the freezer last night and put it in the refrigerator. This morning, my husband pointed out that it is still hard, and maybe we should try something else.

We have four days left already!

I slowly doped that whole thing out on my own before I saw the translation you so thoughtfully provided. I was pretty close!

The day after Thanksgiving is traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, many stores open at ridiculously early hours to sell advertised items at deep discounts. The problem is, they never have enough of the items to last more than a short time, so people are there waiting for the stores to open. Sometimes the crowds are so big and the shoppers so desperate for a bargain that people get hurt or even killed.

The term Black Friday came into use because the sales on that day can put a business into the black for the year. Everything from that day on is profit.

Egbert, it is overloaded today because of so much traffic. It will probably come back later.

Gauldar, you might find the discussion after this post interesting:

http://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/15/the-shadow-scholar/

I looked! Apparently they haven't been posted yet.

Nobody told me; I looked it up.

Dictionaries use the word "unauthorized" or "stolen", meaning the user does not have the author's permission to use the writing.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plagiarism
http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plagiarize

However, I see now that Universities define it as using someone else's work, whether authorized or not, which means cheating.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/plagiarism.html

The hand holding the gun doesn't look right. But my eyesight isn't so great, either -I can't tell you exactly what is wrong with it.

Obviously! I have never seen the show. I never watched Nickelodeon at all until my kids found it just a few years ago.

I'll never forget that House episode.

I guess someone pointed that out and it was changed since I snagged a picture.

Wow, I'm sorry ...when I watched it, there were no ads until after the penguin clip. Anyway, I found an alternative YouTube version and changed the video embed.

Some cats, maybe. I have four cats, including one that sticks her paw in the water and then licks the water off, and another who gets in the sink and waits for running water.

The kitten also jumps in the shower with the kids and then complains about it loudly.

Leave it to me to get unusually ungraceful cats.

Hmm... an amoeba is a critter that has no sex, because they never reproduce by combining DNA from two different parents. Lizards do, so they form male and female to do it.

I don't know about the rest of your questions... anyone?