If Lucky Goldstar existed before LG, how is it a backronym?

Can you imagine having to clean that thing?

Western art is all about being snarky?

Tangentially related--Peter Jackson was reportedly looking into making a Tintin movie with Steven Spielberg. Not sure where this went.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6656635.stm

For a moment I thought you'd posted a picture of a Reliant Robin:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Reliant_Robin_Saloon_England.jpg

What about "speaks to"? That really grinds my gears.

What's the relationship between this and the Royal De Luxe production from several years back?

http://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/09/sultans-elephant/

Made for use at a Medieval Times party.

http://www.cafepress.com/bodkins

Congrats to you and the Mrs. on the arrival of little Ruddiger!

Wait a minute...we turn a Turkish bishop into a red-suited fat elf who lives at the North Pole and flies reindeer around the world and you wanna argue that the Japanese are the ones who got it wrong?

The first time I saw the Bulls--t! episode linked above I expected this would come to pass (much like every other viewer, probably).

What I want to know is...how long does it take to milk a snail for enough goo to fill one of those teeny little bottles?

You should have a special metatag for "conceptual art projects".

The popular Japanese term for this is "Karoshi".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi

My kid could paint that.

This is an exceptionally crappy article from National Geo--the dinosaur wasn't "dried", it's been completely mineralized just like most fossils. Only in this case the tissue itself is allegedly fossilized as well as the bone.

If they had any respectability left they'd at least try to clear that up while peppering the story with loaded words like "mummy" and "preserved".