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German speaking and most Slavic countries: If you meet someone for the first time, address them in plural. If you talk to someone you are not on very friendly terms with, address them in plural. If you wish to express respect towards someone, address them in plural. If you talk to someone...

When I was 5 years old, my (at the time) teenage sister took me to se "E.T." and I was so scared of the puppet I put my head down and refused to come up until the movie was over. Pretty funny since I became a horror film buff once I turned 7 and watched "Evil Dead".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFFUoLDS61A&list=FLNfKDIOyoxQEGcrSojov2og&index=71&feature=plpp_video

Anyone remember this? <iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fFFUoLDS61A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

I'm from a small eastern European country. Our classic term is "zamorci" which means "people from beyond the sea" which also includes Arabs, Indians, Australian Aboriginals and strangely Polinesians. It does not however include Asians, Inuits or Native Americans. In recent decades we tend...

2nd Season of GitS: Stand Alone Complex, final episodes when the Tachikomas sacrifice themselves (they hurl the satellite containing their AIs into the path of a nuke) while singing a cheerful Japanese kids song. Makes me tear up just thinking about it.

300 million years ago, during a long period of warm global temperatures some species of spider grew over 3 feet long and 2 feet tall (their abdomens were much larger in relation to their limbs). During the same period some early scorpions were over 6 feet long.

This has been in development for a long time and the 2018 date is actually very conservative and probably set to give the US time to prepare for the change. A move like that will be a life threatening blow to the US economy, since a lot of its debt was often written off because of oil being...

<-Six years with this one.

My professor of "Exotic animals" class tried to cure me of my arachnophobia one day, so he put mexican tarantula on my head. I was scared stiff for a few moments but it was just sitting there so i picked it up and put down very carefully. I even had a poisonous (but not aggressive) crusader...

Under the right circumstances a TinTin game could be a great action adventure. Unfortunately a movie tie-in will be bad.

Neverwinter Nights (1) With all additional campaigns and multiplayer variety, I think I literally spent a complete year of life on it (if you include sleeping and dreaming of it).

Does a one hour concert of Mongolian throat chanting count?

Dig Dug on a pc (8086 with blacknwhite monitor and no hard drive)

The root of all evil is really the Lobby system. The biggest problem is (for us non-US residents) that it's starting to gain validity in our countries as well.