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  This might be the most scholarly shitpost I've ever read. Bravo to everyone involved.

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  I have three that all vie for the top-spot at different times: *The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou* is usually my top. I love all the performances, the practical sets, the goofy CGI, and the soundtrack (especially the ending scene with the expert use of “Staralfur” by Sigur Ros). I also grew up with an absentee father and while I never really developed typical “daddy issues” over that, something about this aspect of the plot hits me (same with why I have a fondness for *Tron Legacy*). The Be...

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  "Parmesan-y"

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  One of my former co-workers (a science teacher) once told me of a "game" he and his friends "played" when they were growing up in the 1970s. It involved drawing a circle on the ground about the circumference of holding your arms out, then taking a bow and arrow, aiming it straight up, releasing said arrow, and standing still. If you crouched or left the circle, you lost. Pretty sure he told me that at least one kid wound up with an arrow through the foot.

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  Doctor or The Great Physician?

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  Reminds me of one of my favorite ways to eat vanilla ice cream: with olive oil and a bit of sea salt. I get a lot of grief for this, but I learned about it ages ago in an old Cracked (.com) article and it is really good.