Garfield wasn’t very notable otherwise. He also took 2 months to die and likely would have survived if his doctor had better hygienic standards.

No. On an oil reserve. Not a national park.

Isn't this a similar reason we don't have joysticks? I seem to recall there was a concept car that replaced the steering wheel with a joystick, and it was rejected for similar reasons.

They made an entire movie about Frank Abagnale even though it was known his book was 99% made up BS at the time.

Air Force One: "Get off my plane!"

Air Force One 2: Snakes on a Train: "Get off my train!"

Air Force One 3: Laundry Day: "Get out this stain!"

Commando taught me that not only can you easily get down to the landing gear, you can jump from the plane, and no matter how high up it is, you'll land harmlessly into water and make a tiny splash.

The other thing to note is the entire concept of language is that it evolves over times. Words like "doghouse" and the name "Vanessa" were outright invented by Shakespeare. They just became words and were accepted. Thus, while Tolkein is correct, at the same time, if enough people wrote and accepted "dwarves," it's also valid.

A good example would be "virus." Both "viruses" and "virii" are accepted as words, depending largely on the context.

That would be theoretically possible. However, the Sun will reach its red supergiant phase and engulf the inner planets long before the Moon could escape.

Which also provides the literal answer to "when will the world end?" When the Sun feels like it, that's when.

Most movies prior to 1968 (when the modern rating system was created) have never been officially re-rated, so they'll just be rated "G" regardless of content. Kind of funny turning on TCM, watching stuff like "Night of the Hunter" and noticing it's rated G. A movie the whole family can enjoy!

PG-13 didn't exist until 1984. Movies like "Poltergiest" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" were cited as one of the reasons why a rating between PG and R needed to exist.

>Like other great talents who died too young we can only guess at what might have been.

There was a movie a few years back called "The Identical" which was about if Elvis had survived into the 1990s, and as a result, Elvis impersonators weren't really a thing, except for the protagonist who looked a lot like Elvis. According to the director, Elvis would have made mellow rock akin to the Counting Crows.

Yes, but that's just typical political theater. If they really believed what they said, they wouldn't still be investing in wind and solar in West Texas. But they are.

>Oceans make a huge difference in temperatures.

The North Slope of Alaska is generally warmer and more mild than the Alaskan Interior, despite being hundreds of miles farther north. Because of how moderating the ocean is. I was there in winter, and even with the Arctic Ocean frozen over, the geothermal heat is still strong enough to moderate temperatures.

Throw in wind chill, and I could believe Chicago being colder than Antarctica at times. Alaska is similar. I've been there dead of winter and while it will be subzero, there is zero wind and thus all you really need is a heavy sweater and you're fine. Conversely, I've been in the Sierra Nevada when it's around 20 F, but the wind chill is miserable and you need tons of layers to overcome it.

Alaska is technically both the westernmost and easternmost state, as some of the Aleutian islands would cross the Int'l Date Line. However the line was adjusted to account for this, so it's not practically true.

I guess people just assume Canada = the north. Technically true but 90% of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the US border, and south of the 50th parallel.

28 F might be the lowest official temperature for the city proper, but many parts associated with the city (like the SF Valley) can get colder than that. About a decade ago it hit 20 F in the western part of the valley, and it snowed for the first time since the 70s or so.

Of course, I've done winters in Alaska so 20 F is a heat wave as far as I'm concerned.

A theater near me used to show it every midnight on Friday-Sunday. I never had any clue what it was, or why it was always being shown.

I'm probably wrong, but I believe words like "vitamin" and "supplement" have little legal definition, and so what qualifies as those are extremely lax. It's a similar case with "organic," where you can make a huge amount of claims because there's yet to be a very specific legal definition.

I will always tell anyone who I ever meet that believes a word of Fox News that they successfully argued in court no one is supposed to take them seriously. (And of course more recent discoveries they never believed a word of the election lies, and were one of the first networks to require COVID vaccination).

I know it won't change the opinions of those who still believe Fox is news, but it's the small victories in life.

As far as I know, most professional leagues (MLB, NFL, NHL) do not actually ban women from being drafted and playing. I don't even know if the NBA disallows it, even though the WNBA is well established.

"But, but, but... Only today's cancel culture removes statues deemed offensive!"

Jessie Owens famously noted that after his Olympic success in 1936, he was greeted by Hitler, but not by FDR or anyone else from America.

It was the same logic used in Vietnam. "Old enough to kill, not old enough to drink or vote." (The voting age was later lowered to 18 some time after).

I don't know, you'd have to ask someone that was affiliated with the production. But that's the reason why, guess it was easier to just style that way.

It was originally done that way to keep production costs of the show down. Then it became part of his image and he kept it.