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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. You know, the first volume of the trilogy: Someone said they hated it because they "kept waiting for them to destroy the stupid ring and they never did!"

@etconner @9_Pets_And_Counting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis_(figure_of_speech)

This is going back a ways, but Marty Robbins' song "El Paso City" directly referenced the events of his classic "El Paso".

Radium (which is radioactive and can cause cancer) at one time was used in a lot of glow-in-the-dark products. To make matters worse, workers who applied radium-based paint to things like clock faces would often moisten the brushes with their mouths. Which led to minor problems like… Read More

Smoking. For me, there's a visceral revulsion when I see someone smoking. And smoker's breath makes me gag every time (which rather puts a damper on kissing).

Frank Burns from the MASH TV show. Selfish, hypocritical, jingoistic, arrogant (without anything to back it up), the list goes on. And he dragged Margaret Houlihan down with him! Everyone was better off once he left.

Inside Out. Riley breaking down on the first day of school, and then crying to her parents at the end of the movie. And Bing Bong.

10. Michael Caine as Scrooge in A Muppet Christmas Carol Probably the reason he did so well was his approach. From the start, he told the producers that he wasn't going to treat it as a Muppet movie, but rather he would act as if he were performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company.… Read More

It doesn't get digested, but it does pass through like any other non-digestible matter. However, people who swallow large amounts of gum may develop a blockage that could even require surgery. https://www.mayoclinic.org/digestive-system/expert-answers/faq-20058446#:~:text=If%20you%20swallow%20gum%2C%20it's,is%20excreted%20in%20your%2… Read More

Some people seriously believe that if you ask an undercover police officer whether they're a cop, they have to say yes. If that were true, undercover work wouldn't exist any more. It would have taken two whole seconds for criminals to learn to ask everyone right from the start, before… Read More