Quebecois French split from France ~400 years ago and has its own history. Acadian French has an even earlier split and can be very hard for Quebecois to understand.

Only if they copied the movies. Stewie in the Family Guy speaks in a Mid-Atlantic accent which is why he pronounces his H’s etc.

Everyone I know has met a killer.

I never really understood it until I met people from Iowa for the first time. They didn’t have an accent in the way that San Diego doesn’t have weather, just a climate.

Never really. Mid-Atlantic was taught in elocution lessons but didn’t really exist outside film and theatre.

Midwest is classic “broadcast English”. It’s considered an almost neutral accent without a strong sense of place associated with it.

At a party hosted by a billionaire hedge fund manager, Kurt Vonnegut turns to Joseph Heller and says, “Our host made more money yesterday than you’ve made from Catch-22 over your whole life.”

Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he’ll never have—enough.”

Ursula K LeGuin?

Akira

Master and Commander

LA Confidential

Blazing Saddles

*Honorable Mentions:

Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Hunger*

Yes. But no kids and the gym is next to the office.

Button, cremini, and portobello are all the same mushroom picked at different stages of growth.

Is it like that? I remember this being an issue in the 1970s. Even crappy old places that I lived in as a student had balancers. I think they’ve been required here since the…90s?

This took me a minute. I can’t remember the last time I was someplace that didn’t have a balancing valve.

I never really thought about it, but 19th century novels etc just refer to “excellent” or “exceedingly keen” memory. Like it was part of the memory recall continuum. Eidetic and photographic make it a category difference, like it’s a different thing than the regular memory continuum.

I’ve only seen the first one and it was fucking stupid beyond belief. I guess anything can become a franchise if you just keep making them.

So it does! Honestly I kinda tuned it out because I thought it was stupid.

I think that may be true? I only know Leary from that Asshole song, and alive alive oh from Molly Malone.

I’m not sure we ever found out. The best guess was that it was tied to the Haj and the OP was a shy pooper.

We sometimes play a game around here where we’ll turn off the volume during a commercial and try to guess what they’re advertising. It’s harder than you might imagine for unfamiliar ads.